The 4th & Inches Show with Jana and The Sherpa

What a wacky week it was for the first round of fantasy football league playoffs: an all-time Vikings comeback; walk-off overtime victories for the Vikings, Jaguars(!!), and Raiders(!!!); and injuries to a couple of players (Jalen Hurts, Jonathan Taylor) that many fantasy teams were counting on for the playoffs.  While the first two are fun to talk about, it's really the third item that will be causing owners still alive in their fantasy football playoffs the most stress.  How do you replace players like Hurts and Taylor?  The short answer is - you don't.  At best, you may find someone still on the waiver wire with a favorable matchup this week, which is all you should care about at this point in the fantasy season.  But who are those needles in the haystack?
Tune in tonight at 8pm Eastern (or download and listen after the fact with your favorite podcast app) for the 4th and Inches Show with Jana & The Sherpa - now in our 13th season, let us guide you to victory! 

Welcome to fantasy football playoff season!  If you have a first-round bye in your league's playoffs, you likely need just 2 more victories to bring home a championship; if you made the playoffs, but don't have a first-round bye, you likely need 3 more.  Which players have favorable playoff-week matchups?  If you have a first-round bye, should you be looking ahead to future weeks' matchups, and if so, how aggressively should you bid for those players?
Tune in tonight at 8pm Eastern (or download and listen after the fact with your favorite podcast app) for the 4th and Inches Show with Jana & The Sherpa - now in our 13th season, let us guide you to victory!

So we've reached the last week of the regular season in most fantasy football leagues.  How badly do you need a win?  Unless you've either already secured a first-round bye for your league's playoffs, or just tuned out entirely (in which case you likely wouldn't be reading this), this is one of the most fun, yet simultaneously stress-inducing, weeks of the season.  Is it worth going with your roster's backups at certain positions (esp. QB) if the backup has a markedly better matchup this week than your starter?  Add in the fact that 6 (?!) teams have Week 14 byes, and you'll almost certainly be at least glancing at your league's waiver wire - is there anyone still available who can get you a much-needed victory?
Tune in tonight at 8:30pm Eastern (or download later and listen with your favorite podcast app) for the 4th and Inches Show with Jana & The Sherpa.  We'll be celebrating Jana's birthday, so cut yourself some virtual cake, and let us guide you to victory!

Heading into NFL Week 13 most fantasy football leagues have 2 weeks remaining in their regular seasons.  Whether you've already clinched a playoff spot and are fighting for a top seed and possible first round playoff bye, you're currently residing on the playoff bubble, or you're already looking forward to next year's draft, you want to put your best foot forward the last few weeks, even if it's just to play spoiler.  Can players like Zay Jones and Mike White provide your team with a late-season jolt, or are they just the fantasy football equivalent of fool's gold?
Tune in tonight at 8:30pm Eastern (or download later and listen with your favorite podcast app) for the 4th and Inches Show with Jana & The Sherpa.  It's our 13th show of our 13th season, so set aside your triskaidekaphobia, and let us guide you to victory!

Thanksgiving week is simultaneously one of the most fun weeks of the fantasy football season, and one of the most challenging.  Fun in the sense that there are fewer teams on a bye (or, as is the case this year, none), and only one game at a time to watch (i.e. - no FOMO).  Challenging in the sense that if you have players with injury concerns who aren't playing until the weekend, and your backup options are playing on Thursday, you have a tough decision to make.  Which players will ultimately play on Sunday, and which ones have so much uncertainty surrounding their health status that you're better off going with a sure thing on Thursday?
Tune in Tuesday at 10:30pm Eastern (or download afterwards and listen with your favority podcast app) for the 4th and Inches Show with Jana & The Sherpa - now in our 13th season, let us guide you to victory!  As is our Thanksgiving week tradition, we'll also give you the players we're especially thankful for this year, and which ones have turned out to be turkeys!

The fantasy football regular season is now 2/3 over in most leagues - how is your team doing?  Regardless of whether you're in contention for a top seed for your league's playoffs, or you're playing spoiler and already looking forward to next year, there are still opportunities to improve your team.  Even for leagues whose trading deadlines are fast approaching, there are plenty of players on waivers who could at the very least serve as bye week fill-ins.  Is Rachaad White now the lead back in Tampa Bay?  When will we see Mike Williams again?  Will Trey McBride join the ranks of impact rookie tight ends now that Zach Ertz is out for the season?
Tune in tonight at 8pm Eastern (or download after the fact and listen with your favorite podcast app) for the 4th and Inches Show with Jana & The Sherpa.  Now in our 13th season, let us guide you to victory!

Perhaps the most important position to get right for your fantasy football team (with the possible exception of running back) is quarterback.  While some will always choose to go the streaming route, having a consistently above average performer at that key position can cover for a number of other roster deficiencies.  Unfortunately, there's increasing evidence that a couple of long-term QB stalwarts, Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady, may no longer be top-tier performers.  Should you hold tight, and trust that their recent subpar performances are just due to small sample sizes, or is it finally time to say "thanks for the memories" and move on from these guys?
Tune in tonight at 8pm Eastern (or download after the fact and listen with your favorite podcast app) for the 4th and Inches Show with Jana & The Sherpa.  Now in our 13th season, let us guide you to victory!

This week we hit the halfway point of the NFL's regular season, and we're almost 2/3 of the way through the fantasy football regular season.  Yesterday the trade deadline, and several notable players changed teams.  Will any of these traded players who are already on your rosters see a notable increase or decrease in their value with their new team?  What about the players already on those teams - how will their value be affected?  And finally, which players on the traded players' old teams might see a spike in their opportunities and fantasy value?
Tune in tonight at 8pm Eastern (or download after the fact and listen with your favorite podcast app) for the 4th and Inches Show with Jana & The Sherpa.  Now in our 13th season together, let us guide you to victory!

If it seems like this year's NFL Trade Deadline (Tues Nov 1st, 4pm Eastern, but who's paying attention?) is getting more hype in articles related to fantasy football, you're not alone.  Robby Anderson, Christian McCaffrey (!?!), and James Robinson have already changed teams, and it seems likely that a number of others potentially will too in the next 6 days.  How are these trades likely to affect NFL teams, and what under-the-radar opportunities may that create that could be used to help your fantasy football team?
Tune in tonight at 9pm Eastern (or download after the fact and listen with your favorite podcast app) for the 4th and Inches Show with Jana & The Sherpa.  Now in our 13th season together, let us guide you to victory!

Here's hoping your fantasy football teams fared better than the NFL favorites for Week 6 - if, as the old Holiday Inn commercials used to claim "The best surprise is no surprise", then this past weekend of football was an unpleasant surprise for many. Aside from the usual bye week-related and injury-related absences, there's also been a fair amount of chatter about potential trades leading up to the October 31st deadline (note: if Robbie Anderson is available in your league, pick him up).  Who's likely to be on the mend and on the move, and how can you take advantage to shore up your fantasy team's depth?
Tune in tonight at 8pm Eastern (or download after the fact and listen with your favorite podcast app) for a special Tuesday night edition of the 4th and Inches Show with Jana & The Sherpa.  Now in our 13th season, let us guide you to victory!