ASK THE EXPERTS appears weekly from training camp through the Super Bowl with answers to a new question being posted Thursday morning. How the guest experts responded when we asked them: What is your New Year's fantasy resolution?
JASON WOOD
The biggest lesson to remember is that what worked this year won't necessarily work next year. Fantasy managers tend to have short memories and react to what happened, and that can be problematic. Another resolution I've made, as a content provider and analyst, is to avoid massive upending of my rankings and projections in the late-summer busy season. I release full league projections a week after the Super Bowl and update them consistently. Many peers also have detailed projections out in the early summer. Yet, too often we get caught up in the increased new cycle and interest levels of training camp and feel like we have to make huge adjustments to carefully thought out, disciplined takes we spent months building toward.
Wood is Senior Editor at Footballguys.com and has been with the company since its start in 2000. For more than 20 years, Footballguys has provided rankings, projections, and analysis to help fantasy managers dominate their leagues.
SAM HENDRICKS
Mathew Stafford and Christian McCaffrey's super performances in 2025 has made me a believer in going against the grain (and the experts) and taking more chances on high-ceiling players who may have disappointed in the past or who may have some questions in the preseason regarding their availability. In 2026 I am going to swing for the fences more and damn the torpedoes! (P.S. Please don't bring up Brandon Aiyuk when I tell you my 2026 resolution.)
Hendricks is the author of Fantasy Football Guidebook, Fantasy Football Tips and Fantasy Football Basics, all available at ExtraPointPress.com, at all major bookstores, and at Amazon and BN.com. He is a 30-year fantasy football veteran who participated in the National Fantasy Football Championship (NFFC) and finished 7th and 16th overall in the 2008 and 2009 Fantasy Football Players Championship (FFPC). He won the Fantasy Index Open in 2013 and 2018.
MIKE NAZAREK
CLASSIC RESOLUTION: Always start your healthy STUDS in the fantasy playoffs!
Nazarek is the CEO of Fantasy Football Mastermind Inc, celebrating 30 years online! His company offers a preseason draft guide, customizable cheat sheets, a multi-use fantasy drafting program including auction values, weekly in-season newsletters, injury reports and free NFL news (updated daily) at its website, www.ffmastermind.com. He has been playing fantasy football since 1988 and is a four-peat champion of the SI.com Experts Fantasy League, a nationally published writer in several fantasy magazines and a former columnist for SI.com. He's also won $40K in recent seasons of the FFPC High Stakes Main Event. Nazarek can be reached via email at miken@ffmastermind.com.
SCOTT SACHS
I resolve not to make last minute lineup changes, no matter how enticing the match-up looks on paper. Going with your gut feeling tends to be the correct choice most of the time. Case in point, last week I was resigned to benching Josh Jacobs. His injury issues worsened these last few weeks, but Green Bay (wrongfully) declared him active, so I subbed him in last minute, and lost by a few points. So, happy new year, and in 2026, go with your gut!
With 2 perfect seasons and multiple league championships to his credit, Sachs runs Perfect Season Fantasy Football, featuring LIVE Talk & Text Advice. He is a 3-time winner of the Fantasy Index Experts Auction League, as well as a previous winner of the Fantasy Index Experts Poll. Follow on X: https://x.com/ffbcoach
ANDY RICHARDSON
Avoiding players who are "injury-prone," ala Christian McCaffrey, turned out to be a mistake this year. I will be careful about doing that again in the future. However, avoiding players who actually have injuries -- Joe Mixon, Brandon Aiyuk -- and then not starting guys during the season who have injuries (Josh Jacobs); that makes a lot of sense. Taking zeroes from drafted guys who never actually play or started guys playing through injury who limp off early... that's a great way to wreck a lineup.
Richardson has been a contributing writer and editor to the Fantasy Football Index magazine and www.fantasyindex.com since 2002. His responsibilities include team defense and IDP projections and various site features, and he has run the magazine's annual experts draft and auction leagues since their inception. He writes a weekly gambling newsletter, Index Bets, during the NFL season and also previews all the games on Saturdays and writes a wrap-up column on Mondays.

