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…
Greatest Team That Never Was
Ray Finkle…I understand where you’re coming from. The way “laces out” haunted the Dolphins fictional place kicker, Patrick Mahomes will stab at my soul for years to come. Updating Robioland Football this offseason was one of the most painful experiences of my life, as I couldn’t escape the simple fact that I traded away what…
2018 Draft Rewind
ROUND 1 #1 MARC – Todd Gurley RB-LAR | POSITION RANK: #1I don’t want to go too far out on a limb, but I think this picked worked out pretty well. He averaged 372 points per game, the most for a running back since LaDainian Tomlinson rumbled for 389 points per game back in 2006. …
THE LEAGUE GOT NEATOCK’D…AGAIN
First up, as always, let’s give a shoutout to the runner-up. Another brilliant year for Calderon, who has really established himself as one of the greats of Robioland. He’s made the playoffs in ten of the last 12 seasons, taking four trips to the finals (three in the last six), winning two championships. This season…
2018 Championship | Predictions
This week is a lot like it was back in 2007. That year, we had one team who appeared to stand above the rest, yet struggled to just make it to the playoffs. In fact, that team needed to shake off a 1-4 start just to qualify as a middle seed (4th place). That team…
First Overall Pick | An Oral History: 2019 Edition
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…
SEMIFINALS PREDICTIONS
Upsets make things fun, but asking teams to keep it up round after round is asking for a lot. Thus, we end up getting a couple of semifinals matchups that look like potential blowouts. At least that’s what CBS is projecting. What do I say? #1 ALTERED BOYZ (MATT) vs #7 BELL’S PALSY (MATT)…
2018 Playoff Predictions
Eight teams. Seven Games. One Champion…and the only true way to get my dick hard anymore. Last year, I wrote in my headline for my predictions: Can anyone prevent Bob vs Matt? Well, the answer was no. The fact was, those two dominated the regular season like Black Panther dominated black actor casting calls and it…
2018 All-Robio Awards
With the regular season over, it’s time to start dropping some awards, as in All-Robio awards. Although, let’s be honest, based on all that players that are on this list, who use to be on my team this season, but aren’t now, I should consider renaming the award. Two things…whichever team ends the season with…
Oral History of the Defending Champs
[table id=673 /] 2000 – Robio Murray Entering the 2000 season, I was riding a 11-game winning streak, after earning the triple crown (top seed, scoring crown, league champ) in Robioland Football’s inaugural season. However, this year we introduced four new league members, so things should be tougher. The season got off to a slow…
2018 Season Rewind
WEEK ONE ROBIO (L) MARC (W) 1186.0 – 1324.0 ERIC (L) RICH B (W) 1505.0 – 1506.0 COLBY(L) MATT (W) 1095.0 – 1695.0 DON (W) RICH C (L) 1895.0 – 1427.0 GRIFF (W) BOB (L) 1744.0 – 761.0 JEFF (W) ROB M (L) 1434.0 – 1116.0 TUESDAY THOUGHTS Holy hell fuck, the world has been…
2018 MID-SEASON ALL-ROBIO AWARDS
We are a little past the halfway point, so it’s time to talk about those great players who have made some your teams great. So far this season, Calderon is the king of All-Robio, as he has four players earning a award at this point. Everyone has at least one, even Griff with a kicker,…
Top-12 Playoff Rivalries
Rivalries…they’re not born. They’re made, slowly, over time. Of course, a few battles when it the matters the most (the playoffs) can speed things way up. Think Cowboys and 49ers. Those two teams never thought twice about each other, but after the battles in the early 80’s and again the early 90’s, these two teams…
2018 Worthless Preseason Rankings & Predictions
Welcome to the 2018 preseason rankings and predictions. Before you determine these words to be worthless, let’s not forget, I predicted last year’s champion. Everything before that should be ignored. Why? Well, let’s look at the track record. Fact is, last year was the first time my preseason favorite actually won it all…ever. Here is…
HISTORY OF PRESEASON PREDICTIONS
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…
2018 Team Keeper Rankings
Keepers are in and it is time to rank ’em. Enjoy. #1 BOB CASTRONE Rd 1 – Ezekiel Elliot Rd 7 – Marquise Goodwin Rd 14 – Deshaun Watson Sick and tired of Bob owning this league like Ted Bundy at a Sorority House? Well, tough shit, as he enters the 20th season of Robioland…
Total Points By Seasons
Ever wonder if we are scoring more now than we use to? No? Never crossed your mind? Luckily for you, that’s how my mind works. Thus, I’ve updated total points per season. First, a little reminder. Season one only featured eight teams run by eight guys trying to figure out this whole fantasy football thing.…
First Overall Picks | An Oral History: 2018 Update
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…
2018 Player Salaries
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2018 First-Round Mock Draft
It’s been a long while since I’ve done a mock draft. I’ve avoided them because I didn’t want to give away my secrets. Of course, having missed the playoffs three out of the last four years, perhaps my secrets aren’t worth stealing anymore. Shit, this is getting long. I hope Masterson hasn’t stopped reading. #1…
Griff & His Fallen Stars
To say Griff Coomer has a problem, might surprise some of you. He’s one of the original members of the league. His 160 career wins is the most ever. He’s missed the playoffs just four times in 19 years, producing 14 winning seasons. He’s reached the semifinals 10 times and the title game a record…
Single Game Performances | Wide Receivers
During the 2016 postseason, Le’Veon Bell tied Jerome Harrison for the fifth most points ever scored in a game by a running back with a stunning 776 points. So impressed by this, I did my homework and found the 13 other times a running back had broken 700 fantasy points. Yeah, I’m good like that.…
Neatock’s Encore
Mr. Neatock has won three championships in this league, but the other previous two times he brought home the title, he didn’t impress much when it came time to defend those titles. Back in 2008, he entered the season with his two great keepers (Peterson, Welker), nailed a stud Aaron Rodgers pick in round nine…
Category Three | Who is the Greatest?
In 1999, despite already drafting both a starting quarterback (Vinny Testaverde) and a backup quarterback (Troy Aikman), I decided to use my final pick, which was the final pick in the draft, on an unknown Kurt Warner, who had just “earned” the starting job when Trent Green tore his ACL in the final preseason game.…
2017 Keeper Rankings
With all the noise we hear about the importance of keepers, one thing is clear, last year’s crop was truly unremarkable. Of the 31 keepers kept last season, only four managed to earn any kind of All-Robio award and only one of those was not a category one player (and that player’s owner tried desperately…
Streaking Into 2018
Some streaks are good. Some…not so much. Here are a handful of streaks I’m paying attention to heading into the 2018 season. LONGEST ACTIVE STREAK WITHOUT A WEEKLY LOW SCORE Only four teams went without a weekly low score in 2017, with Bob leading the way at 21. Still, he needs four more weeks without…
The Romp
There had been plenty of great performances in the Robioland Fantasy Football playoff history. I was the first person to score over 1,500 in all three postseason games back in 2002 (for a total of 5,254 points). There was Rob Masterson’s (probably) unbreakable 2,501 single game score in 2003. That season also saw Burrier become…
DeMarco Murray | The Man Who Made Calderon a Champ
Sad news if you consider yourself DeMarco Murray fan boy. The former Cowboys-Eagles-Titans running back announced his retirement this past week. Now time will tell if he’s really retired. With LeSean McCoy’s sudden legal woes, he could easily get picked up by the Bills or any other team that finds itself in a running back…
2018 Keeper Options
Here are your 2018 KEEPER OPTIONS. First, you’re welcome…for putting these all on one document. Just one of the many brave and wonderful things I do. Just to remind you, each team can keep three players; one player from one of the three categories. A player can be on your roster a total of three years,…
2018 Robioland Fantasy Football: Take 20
Holy fuck balls, can it be? Yes it can. The 2018 season will be year 20 in this great experiment we call Robioland Fantasy Football. What began as just a few bored guys in a Ruby Tuesday corner booth as turned into what many would argue is the greatest fantasy league in the history of…
The First Overall Pick | 2018 Edition
Last year, I did a “FIRST OVERALL PICK” history lesson. It was brilliant, because I wrote it. Actually, it showed that if you have the first overall pick, then good things are about to happen (unless you’re me and you trade away the top pick). Anyhow, Matt Neatock had the first overall in 2017 and…
Rookie Wide Receivers | A Story of the Great Waste
You might have missed this, but did you know that only one wide receiver went in the first-round in the 2018 draft? That’s low. There hadn’t been that few wide receivers taken since in round one since 2008, when none were taken. Overall, 31 wide receivers were drafted this year and that’s about the average,…
The 2018 Draft is Over…Let the healing Begin
I’ll be honest, I don’t really watch too much of the spectacle that has become the NFL Draft. The pre-pick National Anthem? Really? Booing the commissioner? So 2012. And let’s be honest, of all the great players the Eagles could have had over the years, the best they could bring to the table to talk…
2018 Robioland Fantasy Baseball Preseason Rankings
You’ve seen the hitting rankings and the pitching rankings. If you didn’t, scroll down, they’re at the bottom. It’s time to deliver the infamous final preseason rankings; brought to you by Carl’s Jr… PRESEASON RANKING #1 Fuck Burrier (ROBIO) Yep, it’s on, bitches. I’m first in hitting, capable of wrapping up Ws in all six…
2017 Draft Rewind
ROUND ONE #1 MATT – Le’Veon Bell RB PIT | POSITION RANK: #2 A no-brainer if there ever was on. Bell had no problem dominating in the Steelers backfield. He finished with over 400 touches on the season, hitting nearly 1,900 total yards, easily earning another first-team All-Robio. #2 MARC – Odell Beckham WR NYG…
2017…the League Been Neatock’D
We are smack in the middle of the era of the SUPER TEAM. For the fifth straight season, a league champion was one of the top two seeds. For the third time in four years, the league champion earned the scoring title. But it is so much more than that. I would argue that for…
Bob Castrone & the Trades Heard ‘Round the World
While Bob technically still has the lead (1,119-933) heading into Monday night, Matt has five players playing on Christmas, while Bob has just one. I’m going Sharpie on this one. The year was 2016; the 5th week of the season. A struggling Matt Neatock was looking to shake things up with an eye to the…
2017 Title Game Prediction | Neatock’s Revenge
Let’s be honest, we’ve saw this coming a long time ago. Jeff and Eric are Jeff and Eric. There was no magical run coming from Calderon and Griff’s days of living in the title game are in the past. This title game was always been about Bob and Matt, as Neatock is desperate for some…
2017 Season Rewind
WEEK ONE RICH B (L) JEFF (W) 1029 – 1403 ERIC (W) GRIFF (L) 1830 – 916 MARC (L) DON (W) 865 – 968 ROB M (W) COLBY (L) 1471 – 1039 MATT (W) ROBIO (L) 1209 – 1127 BOB (L) RICH C (W) 1037 – 1464 TUESDAY THOUGHT Matt’s rein of terror nearly ended…
2017 Players
Antonio Brown becomes the first wide receiver in Robioland history to earn MVP. His 3,152 points would have made him the third best back and seventh best quarterback and without him, Eric is not a playoff team. [table id=610 /]
2017 Semifinals Predictions
You know, lost in the hoopla that was Eric’s thrilling last second win and Jeff’s stunning come from behind victory, is the simple fact that the two best teams advanced as expected. Bob and Matt are each just one win away from reliving the magic of that was the 2014 championship game. Do either Eric…
2017 Playoff Predictions | Can Anyone Prevent Matt vs Bob?
Welcome to the 2017 Playoff Predictions. Before you claim that the words written on this post are as meaningless as a girl in Jeff’s bedroom, don’t forget, I picked all four quarterfinals matchups correctly last year. Of course, I picked me beating Calderon for the championship and that didn’t happen, so on with the fun……
2017 All-Robio Awards
Another year, another list of All-Robio players. Congratulations to Neatock, becoming the first person to produce two 1st-team All-Robio backs in the same season. Now onto the teams… FIRST-TEAM ALL-ROBIO QB – Russell Wilson, SEA (Colby) | 4,228 points (352 ppg) He’s always been a great quarterback, twice getting his Hawks to the Superbowl, but…