Matthew Berry published his 100 facts for the 2026 fantasy football season on Aug. 13, and the column is built to do one thing fast: give draft-room readers a stack of numbers they can use right away. Posted on FantasyLife.com and presented by Xfinity, it leans on heavily checked statistics and then uses them to argue that the right quarterback call can still come down to how the numbers are framed.
Berry does not hide the method. He says the stats are “100% true, heavily researched, verified and completely accurate,” but he also says, “There are three kinds of lies. Lies, damned lies and statistics,” and adds that he can “talk up or down any player” he wants. That matters because the piece is aimed at readers preparing for the 2026 Fantasy Football Season, where one quarterback can look like a cheat code and another can look broken depending on which slice of the data you choose.
One of those quarterbacks, labeled Quarterback A, is described as a Pro Bowler, a multi-time Player of the Week winner and a multiple-year NFL Top 100 player who averaged more than 290 total yards per game last year. He had nine top-12 finishes last year, passed for over 4,000 yards in each of his last three healthy seasons, and has three top-12 fantasy QB finishes in those same three healthy years. Berry also points to 21 rushing touchdowns over the last four years, a top-10 PFF grade, and an average last season of 2.5 touchdowns for every 0.2 interceptions per game. He says that was his best season ever, and that he plays with one of the best groups of pass catchers in the NFL.
Quarterback B is the other side of the argument. He was 32nd out of 42 qualifying quarterbacks in completion percentage, took a career-high 41 sacks last season and had 22 turnover-worthy plays. His receiving corps led the NFL in drops, and Berry notes that his career passer rating is lower than Carson Wentz, Gardner Minshew and Mac Jones, among others. Before last season, he had been QB23 or worse for multiple years, and in 2024 he was QB27.
That is the friction inside the column: the numbers are presented as clean and verified, but Berry is also showing how easily a stat line can be arranged to support almost any conclusion. FantasyLife.com’s Utilization Report is meant to sort through that by breaking down nearly every player and how he is used, and Berry says Damian Dabrowski and Ryan Paganetti helped him land on the right stat at different points in the piece. For fantasy managers, the practical takeaway is simple. The names may be hidden in the excerpt, but the pressure is not. Drafts are coming, and Berry is telling readers that the safest edge still starts with deciding which numbers to trust before the clock runs out.
