By: The Fantasy Physician Week 9 Big Question – How do I manage player selection in the first Double Game Week (DGW) of the 2026 Season There are few dates on the calendar that fire the imaginations of veteran fantasy football managers as much as these: opening weekend, Decision Day in MLS, and the first big double game week (DGW). …
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Introduction Welcome back to diffeRANCHals season 5! I can’t believe we already are at 5 consecutive seasons of doing an article about differentials. I wouldn’t have been able to continue for this long without the support of all of the readers along with the contributors who have stepped up to help out. This season is going …
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By: The Fantasy Physician Week 7 Big Question – How do I assess matchups to pick players? Contextualize! Yes, on Kickbase or any fantasy platform you can look at player averages and just pick the players with the best averages if you can afford them. But that’s not that fun and misses a lot. Soccer players do what they do …
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Introduction Welcome back to diffeRANCHals season 5! I can’t believe we already are at 5 consecutive seasons of doing an article about differentials. I wouldn’t have been able to continue for this long without the support of all of the readers along with the contributors who have stepped up to help out. This season is going …
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By: The Fantasy Physician Week 6 Big Question – Should I favor players playing at home? We layer the muscles over the bones. In our Week 4 and Week 5 articles, we highlighted the general value in the Kickbase scoring system of taking players from winning teams, seasoned with cautions about the impact of the CONCACAF Champions Cup schedule on …
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By: The Fantasy Physician Weeks 5 Big Question – How do I factor player exhaustion/rotation from CCC in my Week 5 player choices Last week we examined lists of top Kickbase players from 2025 and the nascent 2026 season. I handed out some warnings that quite a few of those players – often found on the best teams – had …
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Introduction Welcome back to diffeRANCHals season 5! I can’t believe we already are at 5 consecutive seasons of doing an article about differentials. I wouldn’t have been able to continue for this long without the support of all of the readers along with the contributors who have stepped up to help out. This season is going …
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By: The Fantasy Physician Weeks 4 and 5 Big Question – When Do I Look for Blue Chip Quality…and When Do I Look Elsewhere? My son and I first started playing fantasy soccer more than a decade ago. In the beginning, one of our main strategies was this: put the players with the highest averages we can on the field …
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Introduction Welcome back to diffeRANCHals season 5! I can’t believe we already are at 5 consecutive seasons of doing an article about differentials. I wouldn’t have been able to continue for this long without the support of all of the readers along with the contributors who have stepped up to help out. This season is going …
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By: The Fantasy Physician Week 3 Big Question – How Do I Know Which Players Will Actually Play? If you put a player on your squad in the new Kickbase MLS Fantasy game and he does not play, you get zero points. Ignoring that bigger disasters in the game (negative scores are not infrequent in Kickbase) or in life can …
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