2013 Draft – A Successful Ruse
Rip Riley: I’m setting the autopilot, but this better not be a ruse. Sterling Archer: A ruse? Brrring, brrring. Hello. Hi, it’s the 1930′s. Can we have our words and clothes and shitty airplane back?...
View Article2013 Rookie Receiver Rankings (Post-Draft Version)
In the week leading up to the 2013 NFL Draft, I published my contrarian WR rankings. Based on the Dominator Rating and Height-adjusted Speed Score concepts, those rankings were an attempt to evaluate...
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Doug Martin, Arrested Development, and the PFF Draft Guide
Tobias Fünke: No, no, it’s pronounced a-nal-ra-pist. Buster: It wasn’t really the pronunciation that bothered me. This may be the best summer in recent memory. One of the greatest shows in television...
View ArticleOur Bananas Won’t Kill You: Best of MITBS This Summer
George Michael: Did you know G.O.B. started a banana stand? Michael: Yeah, that was my idea. I’m trying to get us to be less competitive. George Michael: That’s gonna be difficult. Plus, they have a...
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Justin Hunter’s Existential Crisis
“Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no… Death is…not. Death isn’t. Death is the ultimate negative. You can’t not-be on a boat....
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Teresa Palmer, Adrian Peterson, and The Occasional Value of Being Wrong
You have nothing on Hakeem Nicks. I can cure you. . . And if not, I am Number Six. Last week I was invited to write a 2013 fantasy football preview article for SI’s Fansided: 10 WR Breakout...
View ArticleAndy Dalton, Alex Smith and the Return of the Electric Monk
“The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder… Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of...
View ArticleJosh Freeman and Inscrutability
Josh Freeman is an interesting test case for predicting quarterbacks in both fantasy and reality. I’ve been fairly certain Freeman is a bust for over a year now, but some aren’t so certain. Chase...
View ArticleEli Manning, Ben Roethlisberger, and QB Schedule Analysis
“My feeling is that if you’re not self-obsessed you’re probably boring.” ― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Hopefully if you’re a Banana Stand fan you believe we’re self-obsessed...
View ArticlePFF Fanium Draft – Rounds 5 through 8
If you haven’t already, check out the first four rounds of the PFF Fanium Draft. My philosophy at the Banana Stand is to provide content with content, but sometimes that means pointing you in the...
View ArticleWinning $250K and Riding Off Into the Friscalating Dusklight
“Vámonos, amigos,” he whispered, and threw the busted leather flintcraw over the loose weave of the saddlecock. And they rode on in the friscalating dusklight. – Eli Cash, The Royal Tenenbaums. At the...
View ArticleMartin Mayhew Thinks Matthew Stafford Was the Problem (and other absurdities)
Recently I was able to interview embattled Detroit GM Martin Mayhew. Here’s what he had to say. Me: Thanks for meeting with me. Martin: Always happy to talk with Lions fans and explain some of our...
View ArticleThe Money in the Banana Stand Guide to the Draft
“I’m in complete agreement with all those people who say, regarding movies, ‘I just want to be entertained.’ . . . That I am almost never entertained by what entertains other people who just want to be...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Carrs
The following is a short guest post by the awesome @2QBFF. He will be hosting a live draft party at SportableNFL, so don’t miss that tomorrow. And if you want more on the Derek Carr enthusiasm …...
View ArticleAlex Smith, The Evil Exes, and a Fantasy MVP
Lucas Lee: Prepare to the feel the wrath of the League of Evil Exes! Scott Pilgrim: The what? Lucas Lee: You seriously don’t know about the League? Seven evil exes? Coming to kill you? Controlling the...
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