Jeff Andriesse

1/20/09:
NBA Waiver Wire Tips, Team Building Exercises
Team Building Exercises is here to help make contingency plans. For those suffering from Marionitis, or for anyone fed up with their underachievers, there’s still plenty of action out there. As always, we’ll present a group of Universal Pickups that should be considered in all leagues, pickups for those of you playing in deep leagues, and daily-league additions offering short-term value...
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1/12/09:
NBA Waiver Wire Tips, Team Building Exercises
Sometimes it’s hard to focus on basketball. This is one of those times. For many, the months of January and February are spent decompressing from the holidays and the NFL season, while pining for Pitchers and Catchers. I don’t know about you, but I’m already starting to formulate my preseason baseball rankings...
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10/7/08:
RotoExperts NBA Southeast Division Preview
Appearances can be deceiving in the Southeast Division of the NBA. You'd think a freakishly dominant big man like Orlando's Dwight Howard (C, ORL) would sit near the top of many draft boards - until you realize he's a coin-flip free throw shooter...
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9/16/08:
RotoExperts NBA Shooting Guard Preview
I tend to view shooting guard as a necessary evil in fantasy basketball. SGs are by and large the most one-dimensional guys to have, often making me wince at their poor field goal percentage or lack of rebounding. The exceptions are, naturally, some of the most valuable options in all of fantasy hoops...
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4/10/08:
Fantasy Basketball Postseason Awards
I just want to start out by saying that this has been the worst fantasy basketball season ever. While the actual NBA season has been a treat, and numerous breakout players have emerged, I'm mired in injuries that would bring the healthcare industry to a halt if all of my guys were treated at once...
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10/15/07
Rotowhine.com's Fantasy Basketball Preview
Howdy, loyal readers. You’ve heard a lot from Greg and I about the mysterious Rotowhine.com Fantasy Basketball Preview, which has now become the Loch Ness Monster of the internet. Does it even exist? I can answer that question with a resounding: maybe. I think it does. I’m too shot to even know at this point. The other night, as I was watching the Red Sox take on the Indians, I remembered back to Opening Day of the baseball season and realized that we’d been working on the fantasy basketball preview for OVER SIX MONTHS...
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9/17/07
On an award tour
The Emmy Awards were Sunday night, and while I would watch an awards show only if the alternative was cannonballing into a lake filled with piranhas, I want to use the occasion to whine about the greatest injustice in television history. Not only was The Wire not nominated for best dramatic series, it has NEVER been nominated for best dramatic series. The Wire, if you don’t know by now, is the best show on TV. For my taste, its the best show ever, and the only films that have given me the same level of spine-tingling satisfaction as a single episode of the series have been the first two Godfather movies...
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8/13/07
Vision is all relative
As the editor of Rotowhine.com, I have to be a man of vision. Ask anyone who knows me, especially my optometrist, and they’ll laugh at the absurdity of this prospect. People with vision are historic figures like Albert Einstein, Jonas Salk, Susan B. Anthony and Martin Luther King, Jr. Normal folks can sit and marvel all day about these heroes and their ilk, what with their contributions to humanity. Me, I am currently wondering how they would all perform in a rudimentary Visionary fantasy football league. Would Einstein be able to cheat by warping time and space to take an injured game-time-decision guy out of his lineup?...
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