Drew Loftis

Drew Loftis

Background

Drew Loftis is a mild-mannered Sunday Sports Editor for the New York Post. A chi🎶ld of North Carolina, he spent eight years at UNCC before being hired by his hometown newspaper, the Shelby Star, late last cent🤪ury. A couple years later, he became the Sports Editor and later City Editor for The Free Press in Kinston, N.C. Drew first arrived in the big city in 2005, making the leap from the Single-A network of small daily newspapers to the major leagues at the NYP.

But Drew isn’t just an editor. He also is a terrible joke-teller, horrible name-pronꦡouncer, huge Batman fan, and graced with a face for radio and a voice for print. And, Drew is something else. He i𝐆s also the alter ego of the infamous Fantasy Madman - the fantasy football fanatic who routinely plays dozens and dozens of leagues every season like a lunatic.

Luckily for the readers of The Post, the Madman uses his powers for good, sharing the knowledge and strategies he has learned over his decades of pathological obsession. You can find his work at the N𓄧YP under the Fanไtasy Insanity banner, where he fights for truth, scoring and fantasy domination throughout the football season.

Latest Articles

Fantasy football: J.J. McCarthy's injury hurts this star's value

Already, h🐻eaded into Vikings training camp, the fantasy prospects for the NFL’s best receiver, Justin Jefferson, were aggravated by a hazy QB situation.ജ

Fantasy football: Be comfortable🎀 waiting on a quarterback in your draft

💯 There are enough useable quarterbacks to go around in most leagues.

Fantasy football kic🅷ker strategy should be as easy as breathing 

Speaking of things you don’t have to think about ... draft kickers la♎st in your fantasy football drafts. It is as easy as breathing. 

Fantasy football draft defense strategy: Pass on𝓰 early star-studded groups

We respect the IDPers🍸, even envy them to a degree, but we have no desire to join. We’ll stick to our simpler drafts.  ꦆ

Travis Kelce's descent into normalcy changes fantasy football tight end equation

In the second in a six-part draft preview ser♑ies, Fanta♈sy Insanity analyzes tight ends. 

Why you should switch to an auction draft instead of 🌠snake drafts in fantasy football 

There is𒐪 a fundamental, undeniable, obvious reason why auction drafts are superior to snake drafts for your fant🍌asy league.

It's time to end the fantasy football madness that is PPR

For some reason, PPR got popular. And we, the fantasy community,💧 have let it overtake virtually every corner of f♊antasy football.

 ෴ Fantasy football: If your first p𝔍ick falls at No. 8 or worse, then it gets tricky

In the first of a six-part draft preview series, Fantasy Insanity analyzes general strategy. Next week: Tight ends, kickers and defense/special teamsཧ. 

🗹  Fantasy football: DVཧQ is back to soup up your draft

Allow the 🅷Fantasy Madman to introduce the DVQ 4.4.

 Finding the right Super Bowl 2024 DFS picks from a limited slate꧋ 💃

Obvious𓆉ly, being in a single-game format impacts how you build a roster.

Fantasy football: Go against grain in final full-roste🎶r DFS week

This is the last full roster opportunity — come Super Bowl week, the only options broadly available will be the single-game caption/showdown formats. 👍 🐽

Fantasy football: DFS stacks in divisional round s𒆙hould start with NFC contender 🔯

We think the Lions could boat race the Buccaneers, and we want someও exposure to what we expect to be a rout.

Fantasy football: How to approach Rams' offense in wild-card game

Do 💛we build a wild-card weekend DFS roster using the Rams’ passing game or running game, because doing both doesn’t make much sense? 

💯 Fantasy football awards: Cowboys, Dolphins stars battled for top wide rಞeceiver

 Tyreek Hill se🌜emed to have dashed away, dashed away, dashed away all season. But then ♓he got banged up, right as CeeDee Lamb was going boom.

Fantasy football: Chargers, Cowboys stars are two Bust of the Year winners 𒊎

The Madman’s top ꩵvillain changes from season to season. This year, in fantasy football, we had two main archenemies in Tony Pollard and Austin Ekeler. 

Fantasy football: This running back has been 2023's top waiver pickup

Perhaps the only thing more 🐠satisfying than hitting on a late fantasy draft pick is striking gold on a waiver-wire pickup.

Managing your fantasy teams in Week 17 isn't for the faint of heart

Tough decisions face ꦛfantasy football managers in the final week of the season. 

Fantasy football: Rams' fifth-round pick tops 2023 rookie class

🎐 First things first: Few things are more exciting than firsts.

Aaron Rodgers' injury devastated entire fantasy football seasons

Now, clearly, this terrible event hurt R𒈔odgers himself, his teammates and even the fans much more than us, a Fantasy Madman. But that doesn’t mean we weren’t h♊urt. A lot.

Stay in the fantasy football action even if you're out of the playoffs

🅷 This is the Hunger Games portion of our regularly schedule football season... unless you already died because you didn’t make the playoffs.