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Fantasy Football Counselor

Rankings Are Broken: How to Set Your Fantasy Lineup Properly (Week 2 Tips)

Fantasy Football Counselor

Joseph Khamou

Football, Fantasy Sports, Sports, Nfl, Fantasyfootball

41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Stop relying on rankings — they’re broken! 🚨 In this video, I’ll show you how to set your fantasy football lineup properly for Week 2, using real strategy: matchups, usage, injuries, and momentum — not lazy rankings lists.

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0:00.0

All right, guys, buckle up. It's Saturday. I'm going to teach you something that nobody else is teaching you.

0:05.4

I'm going to teach you how to properly set up your fantasy football lineup so you can actually win your week.

0:11.8

We're talking fantasy football week two. We're talking the entire season. How to properly set up your lineup logically using common sense.

0:20.2

Now, the reason that inspired this video here today on the Saturday on this weekend is because

0:24.7

I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired of seeing annoying videos.

0:29.3

I just talk about fantasy football and I see people doing one hour videos, tiered rankings

0:34.1

for week two.

0:35.4

Are you kidding me right now? These people are lying to you. These are the same people that told you, you know, Jamar Chase's first overall. Look what he did last week. We proved last week that Keon Coleman and guys like Emika and Buka can get it done. Okay, you don't need to draft a wide receiver early. We saw, again, just only one, wait until you see what's coming next. Wait until you see the bus. Brock Bowers are telling you to void. He's already banged up for week two. Okay, so rankings don't work. Like, I don't know how to emphasize this enough, yet they continue to do rankings for week two. These are my week two rankings. Like, rankings don't work. So let's talk about a practical approach.

1:12.1

How can we edit our lineups?

1:14.3

How do we do this without looking at rankings? It's very simple. I'm going to explain that to you. Now, if you're new to your channel, smash it, tap, and slap it, the only channel telling you the truth. I'm going to do this in a quick, concise form here. Now, if you want direct access to me and for me to help you do your life, because every, that's the first tip here, the first way to help you is that every lineup is different. You can't just bulk everybody in and cookie cutters every single week. These are the rankings. Well, what if I don't have that player? Or what if something changes? Or what if that player's injured and that player is not available on the waiver wire, right? So if you guys want custom tailored advice, join the Patreon group. I do a direct Q&A every single week to the general levels. You got to be in the generals. There's generals, captains, and privates. So you've got to go to the general level. You get guaranteed answers to your questions. So patreon.com 4 slash FF counselor. I've linked it below the front lines.

2:02.4

Join the community right now. And also if you guys want my picks, winning picks. Last year,

2:07.3

last week we crushed it in the in the counselor's edge joined below the council's edge of

2:12.1

linked it below as well to get all my NFL winning picks every single week. Okay. I'm ready to dive in

2:16.9

and give you guys a secret here on how I edit my lineups. But as you know, there's a couple new things here. Brand new hat representing Emeka. Gbuk. I got a Buccaneers cap. I like the red. Something different. And also right there, we've got the new plaque. Thank you for everybody's for subscribing. 100,000 subscribers. Thank you guys. I appreciate everything. There it is. It just arrived. Voila, right there. Very, very proud moment here, years of building, done it organically through grit, hard work, and determination. Thank you guys. Okay. Subscribe if you're new. Welcome to the channel. All right. It just feels good to have that back there.

3:07.7

I mean, it took a long time to get, man, the play button. All right. So let's talk about how do you set up your lineup? So going back to what I said, you can't just bulk everything in and just look at tiered ranking. I can have, okay, well, I like this player this week. throw that out the window.

3:09.9

You don't have to overcomplicate things, okay?

3:25.1

And put it all under one cookie cutter umbrella because every team is different. Just by realizing that, you'll be light cheers ahead of the sheep, okay? Awareness, okay? And being aware, the rankings don't work. Just those two things, you're fine, okay? Even that one thing, rankings don't work.

3:41.4

Being aware of that, your light shoes and head of the sheep. Now, I got a specific lineup. Now, I'm torn between Dante Thornton and I'm torn between Kishon Boutte, who I just, booty, who I just picked up off the waiver wire. And I'm torn between who do I start, right? Or last week, Bo Nix had a bad week.

3:42.5

Do I start them?

3:43.5

What do I do?

3:41.4

It's very simple. the waiver wire. And I'm torn between who do I start, right? Or last week, Bo Nix had a bad week.

3:47.1

Do I start them? What do I do? It's very simple, guys. What you got to take a look at? The first thing you've got to be thinking when you're editing your lineups, okay, is the volume. How much

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