Welcome to another exclusive Robio Murray list, that will surely provide five to ten minutes of entertainment, depending on your reading skills. Today, I offer you a history of the first overall pick. Let’s get the ball rolling with a few fun facts. In the league’s first year, I picked my name out of a…
2020’s Weekly Heroes, Hooligans and How the Hell Did I Not Start That Dude?!
Your Weekly All-Robio Team A week after going all-bench, Watson goes first-team for Burrier. The dude has been on fire. Speaking of heating up, Henry goes back-to-back, while Gibson arrives for the first time, although that performance probably says more about the Dallas D. No question Hill belongs on the list, as it’s his third…
Best Starts in League History | 2020 Edition
As my wife will tell you, I’m a little rough out of the gate, but a strong finisher. Others are just the opposite. Here is a list of those opposites, the best starters in league history and how they finished up. As you will see, starting hot has been pretty meaningless if mugs are what…
Worst Starts in League History | 2020 Edition
We talked about the best starts in league history, so now let’s go with the league’s worst starts in league history. A total of 41 teams have began a season 0-3 or worse. The worst of the worst was me. My 2009 team was the only team to start a season with eight straight defeats.…
History of Preseason Predictions | Updated
Predictions, they are the cornerstone of a great commissioner. Sadly, predictions are sort of like a turd flavored, penis shaped lollipop…a good idea, but oh so wrong. My point…well, just see below. You will find all my preseason championship predictions, how they fared, plus who was the actual champion and where did I have them…
2020 Preseason Predictions | 2020 is Gonna 2020
2020, a year that will truly live in infamy. Thus, it’s only fitting that we have a title game that best represents the times were are liven’. Past preseason rankings have been hit-or-miss. Last year, I had Calderon at #1 and he did finish #1 in the regular season. So there’s that. 2020 PRESEASON…
2020 Player Salaries
The cap as always is $100. If you go over the cap during the draft, don’t sweat it. You just need to get under the cap by the first game. If you go over during the season, you’ll be given one waiver wire to get back under. Don’t forget, any first time pickup needs the…
Greatest Keeper By Team (2020 Update)
Keepers are due tomorrow night. Lots of tough decisions to be made. However, let’s take a look back at each person’s greatest keeper (in no particular order). ROBIO MURRAY MARSHAWN LYNCH, 2011-2013 Oddly, despite my success, I haven’t really produced a lot of great keepers. Maybe I’m bad at it. Maybe I draft so well,…
Your Greatest Fail
Not everyone has won a championship. But everyone has had a team that probably should have. I present to you, each person’s greatest team to NOT win a championship. And yes, I’ll rank those too. #1 Rich Calderon – 2019 Season Based on career rankings, Rich’s 2019 is the 8th greatest season ever produced in…
2020 Schedule | Quick Peek Ahead
As always, CBS randomly selects who will play who during the upcoming season. As we all know, each team will face two foes twice, creating an unbalanced schedule. That is the life we live, because this isn’t communist Russia. So, what do we have… WEEK ONE & TWELVE ROBIO v ERIC Eric and I have…
2020’s Career Rankings
Welcome back, my fantasy football colleagues. Sadly, we decided to cancel the 2020 Robioland Fantasy Baseball season. However, as of now, there will be a 2020 NFL season, which means we will most likely be having a 2020 fantasy football season. We’ll save the draft talk for later, as I want to hold the draft as…
2019 Draft Rewind
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The Juggernaut
It’s official..without question, my 2019 is the greatest season this league has ever seen and ended in the only fitting way possible, a championship. Yet, before I heap a ton of praise upon myself, let’s recap the game and let’s not forget the final to fall. THE GAME In the end, the game wasn’t even…
2019 Championship Preview & Prediction
I began my postseason predictions with a simple question…could anyone prevent a Rich Calderon vs Robio Murray finals. That question has been answered…nope. This is a good thing, because what better way to end a season other than having the two best teams facing off for the title? Of course, we’ve had 1s vs 2s…
2019 Postseason: Robio/Rich C vs the Field
When the season began, Rich Calderon was going to be the champion. It was a forgone conclusion, thanks to a trio of great keepers and two of the top 13 picks in the draft. With a record tying 12-1 record in the regular season, he certainly had the look of a team that fulfilled his…
2019 All-Robio Awards
Welcome to the 2019 All-Robio Report, where we have collected three teams worth of All-Robio players. Of the 18 QB-RB-WR-TEs on these lists, 12 are showing up for the first time ever. Heck, seven of the nine 1st-team players are not only earning their first 1st-team, but earning their first All-Robio anything. Calderon leads the…
2018 Keeper Rankings | A Look Back
As we head into week twelve, I think we can finally look back and see if these preseason keeper rankings were worth the paper they were not written on. It’s also a good time to see if there were any better keeper options for each team to keep. For some, the answer is yes. For…
2019 Midseason’s Biggest Busts
Busts…they’re beautiful on women, but terrible for a fantasy team. Of course, perhaps they’re not such a tragedy since two teams that are currently a combined 13-1 have four players on the 1st-team All-Bust squad. FIRST TEAM ALL-BUST QB – Baker Mayfield (Rich B) He was expected to be the centerpiece of a resurgent Browns/Burrier’s…
2019 (Almost) Mid-Season All-Robio Awards
Through seven weeks, it shouldn’t shock many that Calderon has three All-Robio players, while I have four. It makes sense, since he and I are first and second in scoring. However, we do not lead the league in All-Robio players. That would be Masterson, who has five total. He has two in the 1st, two…
Greatest Fantasy Seasons | Running Backs
Unfortunately, simply going back in time and see who scored the most is not how we figure out which running back had the greatest seasons ever. Fact is, we’ve made changes over the year. Until 2005, we played 14 regular season games. In 2014, we adjusted our scoring system to bring down quarterback and DST…
2019 Season Rewind
It’s time to recap what I had to say to you subjects week to week. WEEK ONE COLBY (L) ROBIO (W) 1275.0 – 1656.0 MATT (W) BOB (L) 1708.0 – 1229.0 ERIC (L) RICH C (W) 1202.0 – 1609.0 JEFF (L) ROB M (W) 1695.0 – 1897.0 MICHAEL (W) GRIFF (L) 1724.0 – 1074.0 DON…
Worst Starts in League History | 2019 Edition
We talked about the best starts in league history, so now let’s go with the league’s worst starts in league history. Oddly enough, despite being the team in the league with the most wins, my name appears often on this list, along with Eric. Griff and I have been to over half the title games,…
Best Starts in League History | 2019 Edition
As my wife will tell you, I’m a little rough out of the gate, but a strong finisher. Others are just the opposite. Here is a list of those opposites, the best starters in league history and how they finished up. As you will see, starting hot has been pretty meaningless if mugs are what…
2019’s Weekly Heroes, Hooligans and How the Hell Did I Not Start That Guy?
ALL-ROBIO TEAM Lamar has knocked McCaffrey off the top spot for League MVP, right? He’s been the top quarterback in half the games he played this year. Both Fournette and Henry show up for a second time, but Henry’s now done it twice in the last three weeks. Bob lands two first-team players this week,…
2019 PRESEASON PREDICTIONS
This post isn’t really a prediction. I can’t foresee injuries, adds and drops. I have no clue who Bob will get to give-up his best player for an injured running back. I can’t say for certain which superstar I’ll sent to Colby for a bucket of peanuts and a signed head shot of Tucker. Instead,…
2019 All-Robio Predictions
Here are you first, second and third team preseason All-Robio selections. I tried not to pick all the obvious favors, although you’ll see plenty of familiar names. I have a three-way tie for most. Myself, Michael and Matt each have four on this list, although only the latter has a first-team player. Calderon and Matt…
History of the First Round
The first round pick…for some, it’s the start of something beautiful. For others, it’s the beginning of the end. That first round pick sets the tone for the season and if you fuck it up, you, like a long actress hoping to land a part in Bob’s movie, could be fucked. The reality is, when…
Top-10 After 20 | Quarterbacks
Twenty seasons of Robioland Fantasy Football are in the books. 277 quarterbacks have produced a fantasy point in that time. Based solely on stats produced, both Drew Brees and Tom Brady will pass Peyton Manning and his 64,387 total fantasy points scored. They are the three kings of fantasy football at the quarterback position. Yet, like…
Top-20 After 20 | Greatest Title Games
The championship game…where greatness goes to die. Or so it seems. Oddly enough, our title games have not always turned into the battles between two great squads. More often than not, it’s been a blow out. In total, 12 of the 40 teams that have competed in the finals has broken 1,500 points in the…
Accomplishment By Picks
Below is a chart. That chart tells us all the important accomplishments by pick. What did we learn? We learned that it’s good to pick first. Of course, we knew that already. The top pick in the draft has made it to the postseason in 18 of the 20 seasons. The first overall pick has…
Two Decade Ranking | #1 Bob Castrone
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them…this is the story of Bob Castrone. The year 2005 was a troubling time. Hurricane Katrina struck Louisiana and flooded 80% of the city of New Orleans and their only hope was a former horse trainer named, Brownie. George W. Bush would…
2019 Player Salaries
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Two Decade Ranking | #2 Matt Neatock
While the top spot is as clear as crystal, the top two spots really came down to three folks: Griff, Calderon and Matt. Each has a good argument to be one spot behind Bob, but in the end, the tiebreaker will always been a larger collection of mugs. Through 11 seasons in this league, Neatock…
Two Decade Ranking | #3 Rich Calderon
There was a more innocent time in this league. A time when Calderon was this cute little team that never managed to win any championships. A squad that made losing as a 2-seed in the quarterfinals their own thing (2008, 2010 and 2012). Yet, that team is no more. Instead, Calderon has become one of…
20 Years of Fun Facts | Semifinal greatness = Title Game Fail
One of the weirdest stats to come out of the first two decades of Robioland football has been the one that says, if you dominate the semifinals, you’ll more than likely loss the title game. However, this has been proven less true lately. After I won it all in 1999, scoring the most in both…
Two Decade Ranking | #4 Griff Coomer
It’s been a strange three years for Griff, who for the first time in his 20-year career in Robioland, has produced three straight losing seasons; two of which kept him from the postseason party. Perhaps he can’t win without Molly. Anyhow, while it’s not a Robio-style fall from grace, it’s certainly been a drop for one…
Two Decade Ranking | #5 Robio Murray
My career in this league can be summed up in three acts. In act one, I dominated the beginning. In the league’s first four seasons, I produced 48 wins, won four straight division titles, brought home a top seed, a scoring crown and a stunning 10-1 record in the postseason, which included three championships. Then…
Two Decade Ranking | #6 Colby Hall
Colby Hall is basically Rob Masterson, but with a least some accomplishments. With no more Molly, these two continue to battle for the “best team to never win a championship” title. Masterson has been a more consistent winner lately (with his eight straight winning seasons), while Colby has missed the playoffs twice in the last…
Two Decade Ranking | #7 Rob Masterson
Rob’s career in Robioland consists of two halves. The first nine years in this league were pretty awful. He missed the playoffs in four of those first nine seasons, finishing above .500 just once. It was brutal, as Rob battled with Eric for king of the basement. However, things finally took a turn in the…
Two Decade Ranking | #8 Richard Burrier
After placing Bob in first, there is no easier team to figure out their ranking than Burrier. The dude has earned the 8-seed six of the last eight trips to the playoffs (dating back to 2007). It’s like his second home. He belongs in the 8-spot. Rich has had himself a strange career in Robioland.…
Two Decade Ranking | #9 Don Vozzola
Don, Don, Don…what to do with Don? After a shaky start in this league, where he produced just two winning seasons in his first five years and zero playoff wins, he actually had one of the most productive runs over an eight-year period. He attended the postseason party eight straight years (2004-2011), becoming the first…
Two Decade Ranking | #10 Marc Pattini
Honestly, it remains too early to find a proper spot for the Pattini. He had such a brutal first season (3 wins and just 14,135 points), that featured six games below 1,000 and four weekly low scores. Yet, he followed that up with a stunning 10-win season, that delivered a top-seed, averaging 1,511 points per…
Two Decade Ranking | #11 Jeff Greenblatt
After a brutal first eight years as a solo artist in this league, where Jeff failed to qualify for a playoff spot six times, he’s actually shown some signs of life since 2015. He actually made it to the playoffs three straight seasons, which included one 11-win regular season and top seed, his first ever…
Two Decade Ranking | #12 Eric Vozzola
Let’s start off with the positive…Eric has been much better in this league lately. If I was rating just the last half-dozen years, he wouldn’t sniff the bottom. In fact, the younger Vozzola has made it to the postseason four straight years and reached the semifinals in 2017. Over the last dozen seasons, he’s crashed…
Top-20 After 20 | Greatest Individual Seasons Ever
Using my flawless mathamatical equation, I have for years determined where each individual season ranks. I’ll probably be making changes to the math at some point in the future, but for now, this is how we do it. You can find the complete list HERE. Well, after twenty years of Robioland Fantasy Football, here…
Twenty Years In | The Most Lopsided Rivalries
Twenty years of Robioland Fantasy Football and we have some intense rivalries. This list, is not that. This list is about those foes you love to face. These are the top-20 most lopsided rivalries in league history (and two bonus ones). #20 JEFF OVER ERIC Mr. Greenblatt, to the surprise of no one, will only…
SCORING CHAMPS | BY PERCENTAGES
While Colby Hall was celebrating his record breaking 2018 regular season scoring crown (20,588); a record that stood peacefully since 2001, Rich Calderon was out there throwing some shade. He simply pointed out that, more than anything, Colby, like everyone else, benefitted from a season that saw record breaking scoring outputs. Rich was not wrong.…
The Mugless | 2018 Edition
The 2018 season gave us another Neatock championship. His fourth career title. Add in my four and Bob’s four and 12 of the 20 championships fell into the laps of three people. Only one former team has won a title, so that gives us four others who occupy the remaining seven championships. This leaves us…
ROME WASN’T BUILD IN A DAY
Back in 2001, Robioland’s first season in New York, a man named Jason Carpenter, liked by none, produced one of the greatest teams ever. He easily earned the top seed after suffering just three losses during the regular season and three games later, was the first league champ not named Robio. That squad would go…
Rob Gronkowski: A “oral” history
After nine seasons, Rob Gronkowski is hanging up his cleats for the last time (maybe) and now the debate begins…is he the greatest tight end of all time? His NFL numbers are telling…the second round pick out of Arizona, who clearly majored in “69ing,” earned five trips to the Pro Bowl. He was a First-team…