All About Fantasy Football Match-Ups

Video Transcript

"Hello, My name is Frank Torres and I am here on behalf of Expert Village. This segment is all about examining your matchups during Fantasy Football, playing Fantasy Football. Your matchups are going to be everything during the season. You will want to review them a couple times a week to make sure players don't get injured or benched or any of those crazy things that happen to football players throughout the season. I am getting ready to check my matchups right now. Let's have a look. Alright, here is my lineup this week. I am using Yahoo just out of convenience. A lot of your different Fantasy Football sites will have screens very similar to this lineup screen. Alright, this looks good alright. I like these match-ups. All these guys have been good for me this season. What do I have here? I have got a player on a bye. That means this guy is not playing this week. He is not getting me any points. So, I am going to go ahead and get rid of him. Not get rid of him, substitute him. Let's see what I have on my bench. Alright, I have Bernard Berrian playing at Oakland this week as a wide receiver. He is a pretty decent wide receiver. So, he will be my bye week replacement. Let's just go ahead and put him over here. That takes care of that problem. Looking down, looking down. Everybody is playing this week. Everything looks pretty good. Got another bye week. My defense is on a bye week. We definitely can't have that empty. Alright, I like Jacksonville at Tennessee this week. So, we will go ahead and we will plug them in there. We will go ahead and submit our changes. Alright, I like my lineup for this week. But, of course I want to keep my ear out for any last minute injuries or situations that might take these players out of the lineup. The second part of examining lineups is examining your opponents lineup. Let's have a look over here. We will go to my overall league screen on Yahoo. Once again, any of the websites you play Fantasy Football on will have these. Then we have got our match-ups for the week. I am going to go ahead and go to my matchup against my opponent this week. There you have it. You have his lineup right in front my lineup. Depending on how you are doing this season, you will have a pretty good idea about how the outcome of the game is going to go. Although, any given Sunday anything can happen. I am looking at my opponent and it looks like he is pretty much on his game. He doesn't have any empty slots. So, it looks like we are both set to go. Examining your matchups. I can't emphasize how important that is. But, if you don't have your lineups full and you don't have your matchups evaluated. The chances are your not going to have very good week. If you don't have a very good week you might not win your game. It's something you definitely want to get in the habit of doing before Sunday on every week."