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The Obvious Outliers at Wide Receiver – An Easy Way to Profit in Redraft and Dynasty

The NFL is constantly evolving and yet history continues to repeat itself. You may have noticed most of the same wide receivers finish in the top producing spots every year. I wrote about this in 2016 and the trend hasn’t changed. I researched the top-24 PPR WRs since 2000 and discovered a small percentage are responsible for the overwhelming majority of fantasy production.  A lot…...

Tips for a Successful Dynasty Startup Draft

  There are a lot of ways to win in dynasty. Some dynasty owners will plan on losing the first few years while building “dream team” rosters. Others tend to overly focus on youth and/or highly touted rookies. There’s also the “get your guy” owner who will undoubtedly reach for a player often rounds ahead of ADP. You can almost bank on there being at…...

Dynasty Hit Rates: 2018 Draft Class

  The 2018 class started out like most previous classes with four rookies finishing inside the PPR top-12 QBs/TEs or top-24 RBs/WRs. The 2010 class was the only class in this series to have less than four, which was the average per year. It’s interesting to note that two of those, Nick Chubb and Phillip Lindsay, weren’t starters at the beginning of the season. This…...

Dynasty Hit Rates: 2017 Draft Class

  The 2017 Draft class looks stacked. Patrick Mahomes and Christian McCaffrey have already finished No. 1 at their positions. Alvin Kamara already has as many 300-plus PPR seasons as Adrian Peterson has had in his entire career. George Kittle owns the TE receiving yardage record and JuJu Smith-Schuster has the most receptions for a WR under the age of 23 years old. If only every…...

Dynasty Hit Rates: 2016 Draft Class

  If you’re just reading this series for the first time, this is an investigation of the actual hit rates of previous Dynasty rookie classes. Starting with 2010, there’s been some very productive classes and some more scattered with hits. The 2016 class is one of the latter. That doesn’t mean there weren’t some studs. Nobody is complaining about Ezekiel Elliot or Michael Thomas. Unfortunately,…...

Dynasty Hit Rates: 2015 Draft Class

  If you’ve been playing dynasty for several years now or following this series, you’re probably familiar with how good the 2014 class is. The RB classes since have been stellar. The WR classes have been spotty at best. Tons of shade thrown on teams that draft RBs in the 1st round. Zero shade on drafting WRs in the 1st. Not a good look for…...

Dynasty Hit Rates: 2014 Draft Class

  The 2014 draft class is the gold standard of draft classes. Mike Evans, Odell Beckham Jr. Davante Adams, Jarvis Landry and Brandin Cooks headline a very deep WR class. The early success of 2014 probably influenced NFL teams and Dynasty owners to reach at the position in the years following. Since 1990, there have been 109 WR seasons, age 26 or older, with 1,300…...

Dynasty Hit Rates: 2013 Draft Class

This is the fourth draft class in a series on dynasty hit rates. The goal of this analysis is to find the real hit rates of players  and possibly some insights in future valuations. The 2010 class gave us several perennial studs, as did the 2011 class. The 2012 class was hit or miss past the QBs. I tweeted about 2012 and some very distinguished dynasty…...

Dynasty Hit Rates: 2012 Draft Class

In 2012, six rookies finished top 12 at their position. The future was looking very bright for this class. Then it quickly fell off a cliff. 2013 first-round start up pick, Trent Richardson, just played in the AAF. Robert Griffin III is a backup QB while his backup QB, Kirk Cousins, is starting in Minnesota. Doug Martin and Alfred Morris remain unsigned having largely been non-factors…...

Dynasty Hit Rates: 2011 Draft Class

The 2011 class gave us A.J. Green and Julio Jones. For years, dynasty players have been hoarding rookie picks with expectations of drafting the next Green or Jones. The problem with this narrative is there isn’t a Green or Jones in every class. Also both players are still in the league. There are only 24 top spots available and both have finished in the top…...

Dynasty Rookie Hit Rates: 2010 Draft Class

This is the first article in a series looking at previous dynasty rookie draft class ADPs and their hit rates. There are some historical clues inside this analysis that may be advantageous to dynasty as well as redraft players at present. The final article of this series will examine the historical hit rate percentages of nine years of draft classes. Here is the 2010 dynasty…...

mike pouncey

Why I’m Buying Jay Ajayi At the End of Round 1

Jay Ajayi is first-round worthy. He reminds me of another pick at the first-round turn, Demarco Murray in 2014.  Here’s why I’m punching my ticket to the @JayTrain23…....

The Team WR2s to Target

In the first part of this series, I researched and wrote about the QBs that support two Top-24 PPR WRs. Oakland, Denver, Green Bay and New Orleans had two top-24 WRs in 2016. This trend has been happening for years, as noted in the first article. An important thing to ponder when you’re drafting a team’s WR2 – is the offense and/or QB capable of…...

The Elite 26 Wide Receivers and Defying Age

I’ve been writing about the same wide receivers finishing in the top-24 for a couple years now. The yearly PPR finishes offer clues to players’ potential futures and may possibly point to undervalued players in both dynasty and re-draft…....

Eddie Lacy Could Pay Fat Dividends in 2017

Eddie Lacy finished inside the top-10 in PPR formats as a rookie running back. That put him in rare company as only 11 rookie running backs have accomplished this since 2000. His second year in the league, he finished as the RB5. Then came the weight issues…....

Three Late Round WRs to target in Best Ball Leagues

On a recent RotoViz radio podcast, Charlie Kleinheksel pointed out a fantastic feature of our Best Ball App. While in the middle of a draft, enter your league number under the “My League” tab and it will show you your league’s available players. Then click over to our projections article to see our staff projections for the available players…....

Don’t Write Off Brandon Marshall Just Yet

I recently argued my case for Eli Manning as a late round QB, so naturally Brandon Marshall would be a contributor to Eli’s success in 2017. I’m here to plead the case for why you should be targeting Marshall as well…....

The Obvious Outliers at Wide Receiver – An Easy Way to Profit in Redraft and Dynasty

The NFL is constantly evolving and yet history continues to repeat itself. You may have noticed most of the same wide receivers finish in the top producing spots every year. I wrote about this in 2016 and the trend hasn’t changed. I researched the top-24 PPR WRs since 2000 and discovered a small percentage are responsible for the overwhelming majority of fantasy production.  A lot…...

Tips for a Successful Dynasty Startup Draft

  There are a lot of ways to win in dynasty. Some dynasty owners will plan on losing the first few years while building “dream team” rosters. Others tend to overly focus on youth and/or highly touted rookies. There’s also the “get your guy” owner who will undoubtedly reach for a player often rounds ahead of ADP. You can almost bank on there being at…...

Dynasty Hit Rates: 2018 Draft Class

  The 2018 class started out like most previous classes with four rookies finishing inside the PPR top-12 QBs/TEs or top-24 RBs/WRs. The 2010 class was the only class in this series to have less than four, which was the average per year. It’s interesting to note that two of those, Nick Chubb and Phillip Lindsay, weren’t starters at the beginning of the season. This…...

Dynasty Hit Rates: 2017 Draft Class

  The 2017 Draft class looks stacked. Patrick Mahomes and Christian McCaffrey have already finished No. 1 at their positions. Alvin Kamara already has as many 300-plus PPR seasons as Adrian Peterson has had in his entire career. George Kittle owns the TE receiving yardage record and JuJu Smith-Schuster has the most receptions for a WR under the age of 23 years old. If only every…...

Dynasty Hit Rates: 2016 Draft Class

  If you’re just reading this series for the first time, this is an investigation of the actual hit rates of previous Dynasty rookie classes. Starting with 2010, there’s been some very productive classes and some more scattered with hits. The 2016 class is one of the latter. That doesn’t mean there weren’t some studs. Nobody is complaining about Ezekiel Elliot or Michael Thomas. Unfortunately,…...

Dynasty Hit Rates: 2015 Draft Class

  If you’ve been playing dynasty for several years now or following this series, you’re probably familiar with how good the 2014 class is. The RB classes since have been stellar. The WR classes have been spotty at best. Tons of shade thrown on teams that draft RBs in the 1st round. Zero shade on drafting WRs in the 1st. Not a good look for…...

Dynasty Hit Rates: 2014 Draft Class

  The 2014 draft class is the gold standard of draft classes. Mike Evans, Odell Beckham Jr. Davante Adams, Jarvis Landry and Brandin Cooks headline a very deep WR class. The early success of 2014 probably influenced NFL teams and Dynasty owners to reach at the position in the years following. Since 1990, there have been 109 WR seasons, age 26 or older, with 1,300…...

Dynasty Hit Rates: 2013 Draft Class

This is the fourth draft class in a series on dynasty hit rates. The goal of this analysis is to find the real hit rates of players  and possibly some insights in future valuations. The 2010 class gave us several perennial studs, as did the 2011 class. The 2012 class was hit or miss past the QBs. I tweeted about 2012 and some very distinguished dynasty…...

Dynasty Hit Rates: 2012 Draft Class

In 2012, six rookies finished top 12 at their position. The future was looking very bright for this class. Then it quickly fell off a cliff. 2013 first-round start up pick, Trent Richardson, just played in the AAF. Robert Griffin III is a backup QB while his backup QB, Kirk Cousins, is starting in Minnesota. Doug Martin and Alfred Morris remain unsigned having largely been non-factors…...

Dynasty Hit Rates: 2011 Draft Class

The 2011 class gave us A.J. Green and Julio Jones. For years, dynasty players have been hoarding rookie picks with expectations of drafting the next Green or Jones. The problem with this narrative is there isn’t a Green or Jones in every class. Also both players are still in the league. There are only 24 top spots available and both have finished in the top…...

Dynasty Rookie Hit Rates: 2010 Draft Class

This is the first article in a series looking at previous dynasty rookie draft class ADPs and their hit rates. There are some historical clues inside this analysis that may be advantageous to dynasty as well as redraft players at present. The final article of this series will examine the historical hit rate percentages of nine years of draft classes. Here is the 2010 dynasty…...

mike pouncey

Why I’m Buying Jay Ajayi At the End of Round 1

Jay Ajayi is first-round worthy. He reminds me of another pick at the first-round turn, Demarco Murray in 2014.  Here’s why I’m punching my ticket to the @JayTrain23…....

The Team WR2s to Target

In the first part of this series, I researched and wrote about the QBs that support two Top-24 PPR WRs. Oakland, Denver, Green Bay and New Orleans had two top-24 WRs in 2016. This trend has been happening for years, as noted in the first article. An important thing to ponder when you’re drafting a team’s WR2 – is the offense and/or QB capable of…...

The Elite 26 Wide Receivers and Defying Age

I’ve been writing about the same wide receivers finishing in the top-24 for a couple years now. The yearly PPR finishes offer clues to players’ potential futures and may possibly point to undervalued players in both dynasty and re-draft…....

Eddie Lacy Could Pay Fat Dividends in 2017

Eddie Lacy finished inside the top-10 in PPR formats as a rookie running back. That put him in rare company as only 11 rookie running backs have accomplished this since 2000. His second year in the league, he finished as the RB5. Then came the weight issues…....

Three Late Round WRs to target in Best Ball Leagues

On a recent RotoViz radio podcast, Charlie Kleinheksel pointed out a fantastic feature of our Best Ball App. While in the middle of a draft, enter your league number under the “My League” tab and it will show you your league’s available players. Then click over to our projections article to see our staff projections for the available players…....

Don’t Write Off Brandon Marshall Just Yet

I recently argued my case for Eli Manning as a late round QB, so naturally Brandon Marshall would be a contributor to Eli’s success in 2017. I’m here to plead the case for why you should be targeting Marshall as well…....

The Obvious Outliers at Wide Receiver – An Easy Way to Profit in Redraft and Dynasty

The NFL is constantly evolving and yet history continues to repeat itself. You may have noticed most of the same wide receivers finish in the top producing spots every year. I wrote about this in 2016 and the trend hasn’t changed. I researched the top-24 PPR WRs since 2000 and discovered a small percentage are responsible for the overwhelming majority of fantasy production.  A lot…...

Tips for a Successful Dynasty Startup Draft

  There are a lot of ways to win in dynasty. Some dynasty owners will plan on losing the first few years while building “dream team” rosters. Others tend to overly focus on youth and/or highly touted rookies. There’s also the “get your guy” owner who will undoubtedly reach for a player often rounds ahead of ADP. You can almost bank on there being at…...

Dynasty Hit Rates: 2018 Draft Class

  The 2018 class started out like most previous classes with four rookies finishing inside the PPR top-12 QBs/TEs or top-24 RBs/WRs. The 2010 class was the only class in this series to have less than four, which was the average per year. It’s interesting to note that two of those, Nick Chubb and Phillip Lindsay, weren’t starters at the beginning of the season. This…...

Dynasty Hit Rates: 2017 Draft Class

  The 2017 Draft class looks stacked. Patrick Mahomes and Christian McCaffrey have already finished No. 1 at their positions. Alvin Kamara already has as many 300-plus PPR seasons as Adrian Peterson has had in his entire career. George Kittle owns the TE receiving yardage record and JuJu Smith-Schuster has the most receptions for a WR under the age of 23 years old. If only every…...

Dynasty Hit Rates: 2016 Draft Class

  If you’re just reading this series for the first time, this is an investigation of the actual hit rates of previous Dynasty rookie classes. Starting with 2010, there’s been some very productive classes and some more scattered with hits. The 2016 class is one of the latter. That doesn’t mean there weren’t some studs. Nobody is complaining about Ezekiel Elliot or Michael Thomas. Unfortunately,…...

Dynasty Hit Rates: 2015 Draft Class

  If you’ve been playing dynasty for several years now or following this series, you’re probably familiar with how good the 2014 class is. The RB classes since have been stellar. The WR classes have been spotty at best. Tons of shade thrown on teams that draft RBs in the 1st round. Zero shade on drafting WRs in the 1st. Not a good look for…...

Dynasty Hit Rates: 2014 Draft Class

  The 2014 draft class is the gold standard of draft classes. Mike Evans, Odell Beckham Jr. Davante Adams, Jarvis Landry and Brandin Cooks headline a very deep WR class. The early success of 2014 probably influenced NFL teams and Dynasty owners to reach at the position in the years following. Since 1990, there have been 109 WR seasons, age 26 or older, with 1,300…...

Dynasty Hit Rates: 2013 Draft Class

This is the fourth draft class in a series on dynasty hit rates. The goal of this analysis is to find the real hit rates of players  and possibly some insights in future valuations. The 2010 class gave us several perennial studs, as did the 2011 class. The 2012 class was hit or miss past the QBs. I tweeted about 2012 and some very distinguished dynasty…...

Dynasty Hit Rates: 2012 Draft Class

In 2012, six rookies finished top 12 at their position. The future was looking very bright for this class. Then it quickly fell off a cliff. 2013 first-round start up pick, Trent Richardson, just played in the AAF. Robert Griffin III is a backup QB while his backup QB, Kirk Cousins, is starting in Minnesota. Doug Martin and Alfred Morris remain unsigned having largely been non-factors…...

Dynasty Hit Rates: 2011 Draft Class

The 2011 class gave us A.J. Green and Julio Jones. For years, dynasty players have been hoarding rookie picks with expectations of drafting the next Green or Jones. The problem with this narrative is there isn’t a Green or Jones in every class. Also both players are still in the league. There are only 24 top spots available and both have finished in the top…...

Dynasty Rookie Hit Rates: 2010 Draft Class

This is the first article in a series looking at previous dynasty rookie draft class ADPs and their hit rates. There are some historical clues inside this analysis that may be advantageous to dynasty as well as redraft players at present. The final article of this series will examine the historical hit rate percentages of nine years of draft classes. Here is the 2010 dynasty…...

mike pouncey

Why I’m Buying Jay Ajayi At the End of Round 1

Jay Ajayi is first-round worthy. He reminds me of another pick at the first-round turn, Demarco Murray in 2014.  Here’s why I’m punching my ticket to the @JayTrain23…....

The Team WR2s to Target

In the first part of this series, I researched and wrote about the QBs that support two Top-24 PPR WRs. Oakland, Denver, Green Bay and New Orleans had two top-24 WRs in 2016. This trend has been happening for years, as noted in the first article. An important thing to ponder when you’re drafting a team’s WR2 – is the offense and/or QB capable of…...

The Elite 26 Wide Receivers and Defying Age

I’ve been writing about the same wide receivers finishing in the top-24 for a couple years now. The yearly PPR finishes offer clues to players’ potential futures and may possibly point to undervalued players in both dynasty and re-draft…....

Eddie Lacy Could Pay Fat Dividends in 2017

Eddie Lacy finished inside the top-10 in PPR formats as a rookie running back. That put him in rare company as only 11 rookie running backs have accomplished this since 2000. His second year in the league, he finished as the RB5. Then came the weight issues…....

Three Late Round WRs to target in Best Ball Leagues

On a recent RotoViz radio podcast, Charlie Kleinheksel pointed out a fantastic feature of our Best Ball App. While in the middle of a draft, enter your league number under the “My League” tab and it will show you your league’s available players. Then click over to our projections article to see our staff projections for the available players…....

Don’t Write Off Brandon Marshall Just Yet

I recently argued my case for Eli Manning as a late round QB, so naturally Brandon Marshall would be a contributor to Eli’s success in 2017. I’m here to plead the case for why you should be targeting Marshall as well…....

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