2024 Fantasy NWSL: Answers from Round 17

2024 Fantasy NWSL: Answers from Round 17

When I was in high school, my freshman Economics class took a field trip to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. We got to look down on the trading floor, where hundreds of people wearing differently colored jackets yelled and gesticulated at each other to trade crop...
2024 Fantasy NWSL: Answers from Round 16

2024 Fantasy NWSL: Answers from Round 16

Fantasy NWSL is officially off and running again! It was a pretty unusual week across the league, so don’t get too worried if your fantasy team scored fewer points than you expected. In addition to all of the transfers and transactions that have taken place over...
2024 Fantasy NWSL: Post-Olympics Reset

2024 Fantasy NWSL: Post-Olympics Reset

Welcome back to FNWSL! I hope everyone enjoyed the Olympics… the women’s soccer tournament was a banner event for the NWSL, with 27 NWSL players earning medals for the United States, Brazil, and Germany, and four NWSL players finishing in the top six...
New Faces in the NWSL and Roster Changes

New Faces in the NWSL and Roster Changes

With the return of the NWSL (and fantasy NWSL) on the way, here’s a refresher on what to expect from the remainder of the season, new players joining the league, and anything else that may be happening – in case you missed it. Ahead of the international...
2024 Olympic Introductions: Nigeria

2024 Olympic Introductions: Nigeria

Nigeria make their Olympic return after not featuring in the past three Olympic games, qualifying in April to represent CAF alongside Zambia. The Super Falcons join Group C, where they will meet Brazil, Japan, and Spain. The team has notably been involved in labor...
2024 Olympic Introductions: Nigeria

2024 Olympic Introductions: Zambia

With two world tournaments under their belts, Zambia’s Copper Queens will return to the Olympics in a group that presents a new challenge, having never faced Australia or the United States before. The only fixture Zambia has played against Germany was in the summer of...
2024 Olympic Introductions: Australia

2024 Olympic Introductions: Australia

The Australian Women’s National Team, commonly known as the Matildas, enter Group B as the team who performed the best in the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup with a fourth-place finish. Defeating Uzbekistan in the final round of Olympic qualifying 13-0 on aggregate....
2024 Olympic Introductions: Australia

2024 Olympic Introductions: Canada

For the first time in history, Canada enters an Olympic women’s soccer tournament as reigning champions, looking to defend their 2020 Tokyo Olympics gold medal in Paris without legends and longtime stalwarts Christine Sinclair and Sophie Schmidt, who both retired from...
2024 Olympic Introductions: Brazil

2024 Olympic Introductions: Brazil

Brazil will compete in Group C with Japan, Nigeria, and Spain at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Recent Form… Since their disappointing exit after the group stage at last year’s World Cup, Brazil has played to a 11W-4L record under new Head Coach Arthur Elias....