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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

How and When to Block Your Opponent in Fantasy Football

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

It's Week 14 and you could be facing elimination. What can you do to help your chances? Jeff breaks down blocking as a fantasy football end game strategy. He tells you why it doesn't work earlier in the season and should only be used when you're facing elimination. Jeff then breaks down exactly how to use this strategy against your opponents.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Rap back when you at?

0:14.2

Yo, what's going on?

0:16.8

It's Tuesday, December 2nd.

0:18.9

I'm Jeff.

0:19.2

This is the rant.

0:19.8

It's week 14 in a lot of fantasy leagues out there. This is the last week of the regular season. And I'm seeing a lot of folks this week who are up against it. You haven't clinched a playoff spot. You're not eliminated. You're still in it. But you likely need to win and get in. I'm actually in that situation in a couple leagues,

0:38.2

and obviously this, it creates a different scenario than most any other week during the

0:45.7

course of season when we're facing elimination. So on today's podcast, I just wanted to focus on

0:50.8

one strategy that you could potentially use this week. I don't want to use

0:55.5

it at any other point during the season, but when you're facing elimination and that strategy,

1:01.1

as you see from the title of this podcast, blocking. Now, what the heck does that mean?

1:06.1

Blocking. Well, when we block an opponent, we're preventing them from picking up a player at a position they need, plain and simple.

1:15.2

And I often say, you know, fantasy football is a really weird game because you can't play defense.

1:21.5

We really can only play offense.

1:23.7

And then once the game starts this out of our control, but we can't defend our opponents.

1:27.4

We cannot defend what they do. Now, I've, I had somebody who said to me, well, you know what,

1:32.7

I could take them out the night before and get them nice and drunk so that they're hung over

1:38.1

and they make bad decisions in the morning. I don't know how ethical that is, but beside the point,

1:45.7

you can't play defense. You really can't. beside the point, you can't play defense.

1:46.5

You really can't.

1:49.0

All jokes aside, you can't play defense.

1:55.7

No matter what we do, it's not going to change the outcome of our opponent's starting lineups.

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