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DFS Insights for the Week 5 Slate with K-Means Cluster Analysis

Welcome back to the series! In the previous installment, we dissected the strategies for Week 4 of the 2023 NFL season using k-means clustering. If you missed it, you could catch up here. This week we made major upgrades to the analysis. Methodology (In-Brief) Aggregated projections from six sources for the first five weeks Collected the actual results of the first four weeks. Collected information…...

Rhamondre Stevenson Could Finally Break Through, and Jameson Williams’ Debut Is Timed Perfectly: The Wrong Read, Week 5 – Part 1

The Wrong Read has had many lives — first as a reflection on insights from the RotoViz podcasts; then as a freeform space for exploring a variety of metrics and strategies. It will likely continue in that latter function, but at least for now — in season — it’s an in-depth matchup lookahead article. Each week I’ll gather advanced stats from our tools to paint…...

Zero RB Dynasty Watch: Buying High and Surviving the Byes

David Phillippi looks at the Zero RB Countdown through a dynasty lens and provides a glimpse into how you can use this redraft resource to evaluate your dynasty squads. With four weeks in the books and bye weeks now complicating our lineup and end-of-roster decisions, it’s a great time to just count back down through the candidates and see where things stand with these players/backfields…...

Going Deep: Week 5 Passing Matchups Preview, Part 1

Welcome to Going Deep! This weekly article will make use of charting data, advanced metrics, and other RotoViz tools — specifically the newly released Passing Game Matchup Rater — to help readers better understand the challenges facing wide receivers and tight ends in the coming week. As my process makes heavy use of the Matchup Rater, I’d highly recommend that you set aside half an hour to…...

The Bears Face a Real Football Team and Stefon Diggs Continues His WR1 Quest: The Wrong Read, Week 5 – Early Week Preview

The Wrong Read has had many lives — first as a reflection on insights from the RotoViz podcasts; then as a freeform space for exploring a variety of metrics and strategies. It will likely continue in that latter function, but at least for now — in season — it’s an in-depth matchup lookahead article. Each week I’ll gather advanced stats from our tools to paint…...

Zay Flowers’ Ascension and CeeDee Lamb’s Easy Path Back To Fantasy Stardom: Wide Receiver Advanced Stats And Buy Lows Ahead Of Week 5

In this weekly article, Ryan Ramsarran uses the Advanced Stat Explorer and other RotoViz tools to dive deep into wide receiver usage trends. Usage is key for making waiver wire adds, start/sit decisions, and finding the next blowup WR in DFS. We’ll use the advanced WR metrics to highlight a few buy-low options at the position each week. Week 4 is in the books, and…...

Using the RotoViz Pace Tool to Forecast Which Week 5 Matchups to Target or Avoid

The pace of play at the team level is instructive in fantasy football. The faster a team is, the more plays they will tend to run. The more plays a team tends to run, the more players on those teams tend to score. Using the RotoViz Pace Tool, we can see the tendencies of every team in these areas so far in 2023. I toggled to…...

Dynasty Command Center 2023: Week 5 – Let The Trades Begin! Dynasty Trade Strategies and Assets to Target

Curtis Patrick provides strategic framework and specific dynasty trade ideas at the quarter pole of the season. Dynasty Command Center 2023: Week 5 – Let The Trades Begin After four weeks, nearly a third of the dynasty fantasy football regular season is in the books. There’s more road ahead than behind, but for some squads the range of outcomes writing is already on the wall…....

Zero RB Universe: Week 5 – Controversial Backfield Stashes and Priority Underdog Resurrection Targets

Shawn Siegele helps you understand the backup RB roles across the NFL and looks at where to select risers, fallers, and trendy names in Underdog’s Best Ball Resurrection. To make sure we’re covering the running back landscape from enough angles, the Zero RB Universe will be a little different every week. As we head into a pivotal Week 5, I’m going to break down some…...

The RB Dead Zone Lives On: Best Ball Mania IV Advance Rate Model Review — Week 4

Let’s start with a thought experiment:  You go back in time and draft a Best Ball Mania IV (BBM4) team with all the knowledge you have now. Who do you select in each round? As someone who has been keeping up with my expected advance rate model, you may be tempted to simply select the player with the highest expected advance rate in each round…....

5 Things that Matter from Week 4, and 5 Things that (Probably) Don’t

Knowing when to react and when not to is crucial in fantasy football. It’s important to distinguish what is truly significant and what is not. This article aims to clarify what requires our full attention and what can be disregarded. FIVE THINGS THAT MATTER FROM WEEK 4 WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT CINCINNATI (AND MAINLY BURROW) Okay, friends. We’ve been in denial for too long…....

It’s Fergie Time: Week 5 Tight End Streamers

Week 5 sees the beginning of the 2023 bye weeks, making roster and lineup decisions trickier. This is never more relevant than at the tight end spot. It’s already a joy trying to find a viable starter at this spot when all 32 teams are in action. But once you start subtracting teams from the main group, the real challenge begins. But worry ye not…....

The Giants’ Offense is the Top Fantasy Defense: D/ST Streaming, Week 5

Matchups matter, and roster space is precious. To all the fantasy footballers who drafted the Jets D/ST in round 12 of their home leagues ahead of Sam LaPorta, Romeo Doubs, Nico Collins, or Marvin Mims, only to drop them in Week 4 against the Kansas City Chiefs: we feel your pain. As injuries pile up, finding room on your roster to hold those elite D/STs through…...

Win the Waiver Wire: 11 Priority Pickups and 5 Stashes for Week 5

Bjorn Yang-Vaernet examines which players on the waiver wire are worth prioritizing for Week 5 and highlights others to preemptively stash. In the first three weeks of the season, quality players could have been picked up on the waiver wire each week, including Kyren Williams (Week 1), Zack Moss (Week 2), and De’Von Achane (Week 3). Week 4 is completely different as there is no…...

An Aesthetic, Moral, and Logical Conclusion: Seasons End Early as New Stars Rise

The Player: There’s a design at work in all art surely you know that? Events must play themselves out to an aesthetic, moral and logical conclusion. Guildenstern: And what’s that in this case? The Player: It never varies. We aim for the point where everyone who is marked for death dies. –Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Bengals, Steelers, Patriots, and Bears fans may…...

Christian McCaffrey Reminds Us That He Is the RB1, and Contrarian Players Get Buried by Chalk: Week 4 DraftKings Review

Unfortunately, from a real football perspective, the slate yesterday was filled with blowouts. We did see some great fantasy games from a number of players. Most of these players projected for high-ownership in DraftKings DFS. For a contrarian player like myself, that was not great news. Christian McCaffrey ($9200) scored 51.70 DraftKings points — a full 21 points above the next highest-scoring running back on…...

Keenan Allen Could Lead in Targets and Ken Walker Pushes for Overall RB1: The Wrong Read, Week 4 – Part 2

The Wrong Read has had many lives — first as a reflection on insights from the RotoViz podcasts; then as a freeform space for exploring a variety of metrics and strategies. It will likely continue in that latter function, but at least for now — in season — it’s an in-depth matchup lookahead article. Each week I’ll gather advanced stats from our tools to paint…...

Puka Nacua Is Chasing Even More Rookie Records: The Wrong Read, Week 4 – Part 1

The Wrong Read has had many lives — first as a reflection on insights from the RotoViz podcasts; then as a freeform space for exploring a variety of metrics and strategies. It will likely continue in that latter function, but at least for now — in season — it’s an in-depth matchup lookahead article. Each week I’ll gather advanced stats from our tools to paint…...

Some Purdy Great DFS Picks For Your Week 4 FanDuel Lineups

Justin Herrera uses the RotoViz tools to bring you the top plays and some under-the-radar options for the FanDuel main slate.  This weekly article is a deep dive into some guys with exploitable matchups, something to prove, or who are just great deals on FanDuel. The goal is always to help you win money on a week-to-week basis. Barring that, at least you can have…...

No Worries, Mate: A Week 4 NFL Weather Report (with Sunday Updates)

RotoViz subscribers know that winning often hinges on meticulous analysis of various factors: player statistics, team dynamics, and even the whims of Mother Nature herself. Weather conditions, often overlooked, can play a pivotal role in any game’s outcome. A few of the most well-known and craziest examples include the Fog Bowl, the Tuck Rule Game, and the Ice Bowl. The NFL is unique in its willingness to embrace…...

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