John Lapinski

Lead Writer at RotoViz with a focus on Dynasty and Best Ball leagues. Father, Giants fan, and Pork Roll aficionado.

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In-Season Articles

Terminated! The Best Offense is a Good Defense

This series chronicles my attempt to take down the FFPC’s High-Stakes Terminator Tournament. The first installment breaks down the rules and strategy and the second installment reviews the draft. This week has me asking the question, “Why can’t we flex a defense?”…...

Dynasty Watch: Buying Low on the Busts

Dynasty rankings are in constant flux, and staying informed is the key to making roster decisions for your fantasy football team. The Dynasty Watch series is your regular season guide through the shifting dynasty landscape. This week, we’ll take a look at some potential buy-lows…....

Terminated! Hello Darkness My Old Friend

This series chronicles my attempt to take down the FFPC’s High-Stakes Terminator Tournament. The first installment breaks down the rules and strategy and the second installment reviews the draft. “Winning the flex” is a motto here around the ‘Viz, but my team didn’t get the memo this week…....

Dynasty Watch: Sifting Through the Wreckage

Dynasty rankings are in constant flux, and staying informed is the key to making roster decisions for your fantasy football team. The Dynasty Watch series is your regular season guide through the shifting dynasty landscape…....

receiving efficiency

Terminated! Some Days Are Diamonds, Some Days Are Rocks

This series chronicles my attempt to take down the FFPC’s High-Stakes Terminator Tournament. The first installment breaks down the rules and strategy and the second installment reviews the draft. The squad took a step back this week, but there’s still a lot of football to be played, and even the losers get lucky sometimes…....

Dynasty Watch: Kamara Coming Up

Dynasty rankings are in constant flux, and staying informed is the key to making roster decisions for your fantasy football team. The Dynasty Watch series is your regular season guide through the shifting dynasty landscape…....

Terminated! Digging Myself Out of a Hole

This series chronicles my attempt to take down the FFPC’s High-Stakes Terminator Tournament. The first installment breaks down the rules and strategy and the second installment reviews the draft. This week the team continues to climb out of the hole it dug in Week 1, but is still looking up at a juggernaut…....

Jonnu Smith

Dynasty Watch: Reload at Tight End Before It’s Too Late

Dynasty rankings are in constant flux, and staying informed is the key to making roster decisions for your fantasy football team. The Dynasty Watch series is your regular season guide through the shifting dynasty landscape. Young tight ends are often slow to develop, but this year’s historic class is already off to a hot start. Read on to find out which TEs you should be…...

Terminated! Don’t Call it a Comeback

This series chronicles my attempt to take down the FFPC’s High-Stakes Terminator Tournament. The first installment breaks down the rules and strategy and the second installment reviews the draft. This week we’ll look at the team’s big bounceback and recruit some of RotoViz’s best minds for the first Tribal Council…....

Dynasty Watch: Wide Receiver Buy Low Bonanza

Dynasty rankings are in constant flux, and staying informed is the key to making roster decisions for your fantasy football team. The Dynasty Watch series is your regular season guide through the shifting dynasty landscape. Through the first two weeks, wide receivers across the league have been off to a slow start.  We’ll take a look at interesting depth charts around the league and try…...

Terminated! If You Ain’t First, You’re Last

This series chronicles my attempt to take down the FFPC’s High-Stakes Terminator Tournament. The first installment breaks down the rules and strategy. This week we’ll look at how the team fared in week 1 and who’s next on the chopping block…....

DFS Contrarian

Dynasty Watch: Breaking Down the Backfields

Dynasty rankings are in constant flux, and staying informed is the key to making roster decisions for your fantasy football team. The Dynasty Watch series is your regular season guide through the shifting dynasty landscape. The first week of real games is the biggest infusion of new information we’ll get all season as players’ roles are clarified, particularly for running backs.  Here’s what we learned…....

Terminated! The Draft Breakdown

This series chronicles my attempt to take down the FFPC’s High-Stakes Terminator Tournament. The first installment breaks down the rules and strategy, and this week I’ll recap the draft and my first termination…....

Dynasty Watch: The Post-Cutdown Mega-Post

Dynasty rankings are in constant flux, and staying informed is the key to making roster decisions for your fantasy football team. The Dynasty Watch series is your regular season guide through the shifting dynasty landscape. This week, we’ll look at the fallout from the biggest roster cutdown day ever…....

Dynasty Watch: Autumn is Coming

For better or worse, you feel different about your dynasty squad at the end of August than you did when last season concluded…....

Scorched Earth: Will the Patriots Offense Justify the Hype?

The Patriots offense is about to go nuclear. Tom Brady will lead his team on a scorched earth campaign, carving a swath of destruction through the AFC. In fact, if you listen closely, you can already hear the anguished cries of Jets fans echoing across the sullen swamps of East Rutherford.[1]OK, so that part’s no different than any other season. New England’s offense will be…...

Jonnu Smith

Who to Target in the Best Tight End Class in Years

How does the 2017 rookie draft class compare to recent years? Are the players available at specific picks this year better or worse than the players available at those picks in other years? Should I be looking to use my 2017 rookie picks, or trade them? These are the questions that prompted me to start looking at the relative strength of this year’s draft class…...

News or Noise? Where There’s “Smokey,” There’s Fire

As fantasy players, we spend the offseason under a constant barrage of news. Under assault from stories, anecdotes, rumors, soundbites, coachspeak, and hot takes, it’s difficult for even the most diligent analyst to sort out the useful information from the meaningless noise for every player. In this series, I’ll take a look at some recent news items and try to determine if they’re meaningful, or…...

Seth DeValve Rising: The Cheap Alternative to David Njoku?

As fantasy players, we spend the offseason under a constant barrage of news. Under assault from stories, anecdotes, rumors, soundbites, coachspeak, and hot takes, it’s difficult for even the most diligent analyst to sort out the useful information from the meaningless noise for every player. In this series, I’ll take a look at some recent news items and try to determine if they’re meaningful, or…...

Terminated! The Best Offense is a Good Defense

This series chronicles my attempt to take down the FFPC’s High-Stakes Terminator Tournament. The first installment breaks down the rules and strategy and the second installment reviews the draft. This week has me asking the question, “Why can’t we flex a defense?”…...

Dynasty Watch: Buying Low on the Busts

Dynasty rankings are in constant flux, and staying informed is the key to making roster decisions for your fantasy football team. The Dynasty Watch series is your regular season guide through the shifting dynasty landscape. This week, we’ll take a look at some potential buy-lows…....

Terminated! Hello Darkness My Old Friend

This series chronicles my attempt to take down the FFPC’s High-Stakes Terminator Tournament. The first installment breaks down the rules and strategy and the second installment reviews the draft. “Winning the flex” is a motto here around the ‘Viz, but my team didn’t get the memo this week…....

Dynasty Watch: Sifting Through the Wreckage

Dynasty rankings are in constant flux, and staying informed is the key to making roster decisions for your fantasy football team. The Dynasty Watch series is your regular season guide through the shifting dynasty landscape…....

receiving efficiency

Terminated! Some Days Are Diamonds, Some Days Are Rocks

This series chronicles my attempt to take down the FFPC’s High-Stakes Terminator Tournament. The first installment breaks down the rules and strategy and the second installment reviews the draft. The squad took a step back this week, but there’s still a lot of football to be played, and even the losers get lucky sometimes…....

Dynasty Watch: Kamara Coming Up

Dynasty rankings are in constant flux, and staying informed is the key to making roster decisions for your fantasy football team. The Dynasty Watch series is your regular season guide through the shifting dynasty landscape…....

Terminated! Digging Myself Out of a Hole

This series chronicles my attempt to take down the FFPC’s High-Stakes Terminator Tournament. The first installment breaks down the rules and strategy and the second installment reviews the draft. This week the team continues to climb out of the hole it dug in Week 1, but is still looking up at a juggernaut…....

Jonnu Smith

Dynasty Watch: Reload at Tight End Before It’s Too Late

Dynasty rankings are in constant flux, and staying informed is the key to making roster decisions for your fantasy football team. The Dynasty Watch series is your regular season guide through the shifting dynasty landscape. Young tight ends are often slow to develop, but this year’s historic class is already off to a hot start. Read on to find out which TEs you should be…...

Terminated! Don’t Call it a Comeback

This series chronicles my attempt to take down the FFPC’s High-Stakes Terminator Tournament. The first installment breaks down the rules and strategy and the second installment reviews the draft. This week we’ll look at the team’s big bounceback and recruit some of RotoViz’s best minds for the first Tribal Council…....

Dynasty Watch: Wide Receiver Buy Low Bonanza

Dynasty rankings are in constant flux, and staying informed is the key to making roster decisions for your fantasy football team. The Dynasty Watch series is your regular season guide through the shifting dynasty landscape. Through the first two weeks, wide receivers across the league have been off to a slow start.  We’ll take a look at interesting depth charts around the league and try…...

Terminated! If You Ain’t First, You’re Last

This series chronicles my attempt to take down the FFPC’s High-Stakes Terminator Tournament. The first installment breaks down the rules and strategy. This week we’ll look at how the team fared in week 1 and who’s next on the chopping block…....

DFS Contrarian

Dynasty Watch: Breaking Down the Backfields

Dynasty rankings are in constant flux, and staying informed is the key to making roster decisions for your fantasy football team. The Dynasty Watch series is your regular season guide through the shifting dynasty landscape. The first week of real games is the biggest infusion of new information we’ll get all season as players’ roles are clarified, particularly for running backs.  Here’s what we learned…....

Terminated! The Draft Breakdown

This series chronicles my attempt to take down the FFPC’s High-Stakes Terminator Tournament. The first installment breaks down the rules and strategy, and this week I’ll recap the draft and my first termination…....

Dynasty Watch: The Post-Cutdown Mega-Post

Dynasty rankings are in constant flux, and staying informed is the key to making roster decisions for your fantasy football team. The Dynasty Watch series is your regular season guide through the shifting dynasty landscape. This week, we’ll look at the fallout from the biggest roster cutdown day ever…....

Dynasty Watch: Autumn is Coming

For better or worse, you feel different about your dynasty squad at the end of August than you did when last season concluded…....

Scorched Earth: Will the Patriots Offense Justify the Hype?

The Patriots offense is about to go nuclear. Tom Brady will lead his team on a scorched earth campaign, carving a swath of destruction through the AFC. In fact, if you listen closely, you can already hear the anguished cries of Jets fans echoing across the sullen swamps of East Rutherford.[1]OK, so that part’s no different than any other season. New England’s offense will be…...

Jonnu Smith

Who to Target in the Best Tight End Class in Years

How does the 2017 rookie draft class compare to recent years? Are the players available at specific picks this year better or worse than the players available at those picks in other years? Should I be looking to use my 2017 rookie picks, or trade them? These are the questions that prompted me to start looking at the relative strength of this year’s draft class…...

News or Noise? Where There’s “Smokey,” There’s Fire

As fantasy players, we spend the offseason under a constant barrage of news. Under assault from stories, anecdotes, rumors, soundbites, coachspeak, and hot takes, it’s difficult for even the most diligent analyst to sort out the useful information from the meaningless noise for every player. In this series, I’ll take a look at some recent news items and try to determine if they’re meaningful, or…...

Seth DeValve Rising: The Cheap Alternative to David Njoku?

As fantasy players, we spend the offseason under a constant barrage of news. Under assault from stories, anecdotes, rumors, soundbites, coachspeak, and hot takes, it’s difficult for even the most diligent analyst to sort out the useful information from the meaningless noise for every player. In this series, I’ll take a look at some recent news items and try to determine if they’re meaningful, or…...

Terminated! The Best Offense is a Good Defense

This series chronicles my attempt to take down the FFPC’s High-Stakes Terminator Tournament. The first installment breaks down the rules and strategy and the second installment reviews the draft. This week has me asking the question, “Why can’t we flex a defense?”…...

Dynasty Watch: Buying Low on the Busts

Dynasty rankings are in constant flux, and staying informed is the key to making roster decisions for your fantasy football team. The Dynasty Watch series is your regular season guide through the shifting dynasty landscape. This week, we’ll take a look at some potential buy-lows…....

Terminated! Hello Darkness My Old Friend

This series chronicles my attempt to take down the FFPC’s High-Stakes Terminator Tournament. The first installment breaks down the rules and strategy and the second installment reviews the draft. “Winning the flex” is a motto here around the ‘Viz, but my team didn’t get the memo this week…....

Dynasty Watch: Sifting Through the Wreckage

Dynasty rankings are in constant flux, and staying informed is the key to making roster decisions for your fantasy football team. The Dynasty Watch series is your regular season guide through the shifting dynasty landscape…....

receiving efficiency

Terminated! Some Days Are Diamonds, Some Days Are Rocks

This series chronicles my attempt to take down the FFPC’s High-Stakes Terminator Tournament. The first installment breaks down the rules and strategy and the second installment reviews the draft. The squad took a step back this week, but there’s still a lot of football to be played, and even the losers get lucky sometimes…....

Dynasty Watch: Kamara Coming Up

Dynasty rankings are in constant flux, and staying informed is the key to making roster decisions for your fantasy football team. The Dynasty Watch series is your regular season guide through the shifting dynasty landscape…....

Terminated! Digging Myself Out of a Hole

This series chronicles my attempt to take down the FFPC’s High-Stakes Terminator Tournament. The first installment breaks down the rules and strategy and the second installment reviews the draft. This week the team continues to climb out of the hole it dug in Week 1, but is still looking up at a juggernaut…....

Jonnu Smith

Dynasty Watch: Reload at Tight End Before It’s Too Late

Dynasty rankings are in constant flux, and staying informed is the key to making roster decisions for your fantasy football team. The Dynasty Watch series is your regular season guide through the shifting dynasty landscape. Young tight ends are often slow to develop, but this year’s historic class is already off to a hot start. Read on to find out which TEs you should be…...

Terminated! Don’t Call it a Comeback

This series chronicles my attempt to take down the FFPC’s High-Stakes Terminator Tournament. The first installment breaks down the rules and strategy and the second installment reviews the draft. This week we’ll look at the team’s big bounceback and recruit some of RotoViz’s best minds for the first Tribal Council…....

Dynasty Watch: Wide Receiver Buy Low Bonanza

Dynasty rankings are in constant flux, and staying informed is the key to making roster decisions for your fantasy football team. The Dynasty Watch series is your regular season guide through the shifting dynasty landscape. Through the first two weeks, wide receivers across the league have been off to a slow start.  We’ll take a look at interesting depth charts around the league and try…...

Terminated! If You Ain’t First, You’re Last

This series chronicles my attempt to take down the FFPC’s High-Stakes Terminator Tournament. The first installment breaks down the rules and strategy. This week we’ll look at how the team fared in week 1 and who’s next on the chopping block…....

DFS Contrarian

Dynasty Watch: Breaking Down the Backfields

Dynasty rankings are in constant flux, and staying informed is the key to making roster decisions for your fantasy football team. The Dynasty Watch series is your regular season guide through the shifting dynasty landscape. The first week of real games is the biggest infusion of new information we’ll get all season as players’ roles are clarified, particularly for running backs.  Here’s what we learned…....

Terminated! The Draft Breakdown

This series chronicles my attempt to take down the FFPC’s High-Stakes Terminator Tournament. The first installment breaks down the rules and strategy, and this week I’ll recap the draft and my first termination…....

Dynasty Watch: The Post-Cutdown Mega-Post

Dynasty rankings are in constant flux, and staying informed is the key to making roster decisions for your fantasy football team. The Dynasty Watch series is your regular season guide through the shifting dynasty landscape. This week, we’ll look at the fallout from the biggest roster cutdown day ever…....

Dynasty Watch: Autumn is Coming

For better or worse, you feel different about your dynasty squad at the end of August than you did when last season concluded…....

Scorched Earth: Will the Patriots Offense Justify the Hype?

The Patriots offense is about to go nuclear. Tom Brady will lead his team on a scorched earth campaign, carving a swath of destruction through the AFC. In fact, if you listen closely, you can already hear the anguished cries of Jets fans echoing across the sullen swamps of East Rutherford.[1]OK, so that part’s no different than any other season. New England’s offense will be…...

Jonnu Smith

Who to Target in the Best Tight End Class in Years

How does the 2017 rookie draft class compare to recent years? Are the players available at specific picks this year better or worse than the players available at those picks in other years? Should I be looking to use my 2017 rookie picks, or trade them? These are the questions that prompted me to start looking at the relative strength of this year’s draft class…...

News or Noise? Where There’s “Smokey,” There’s Fire

As fantasy players, we spend the offseason under a constant barrage of news. Under assault from stories, anecdotes, rumors, soundbites, coachspeak, and hot takes, it’s difficult for even the most diligent analyst to sort out the useful information from the meaningless noise for every player. In this series, I’ll take a look at some recent news items and try to determine if they’re meaningful, or…...

Seth DeValve Rising: The Cheap Alternative to David Njoku?

As fantasy players, we spend the offseason under a constant barrage of news. Under assault from stories, anecdotes, rumors, soundbites, coachspeak, and hot takes, it’s difficult for even the most diligent analyst to sort out the useful information from the meaningless noise for every player. In this series, I’ll take a look at some recent news items and try to determine if they’re meaningful, or…...

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