Inside where nothing shows, I am the essence of a man spinning double-headed coins, and betting against himself in private atonement for an unremembered past. – Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead When you embrace players with a wide range of outcomes – betting on talent, betting on the emergence of elite youth – the first month is occasionally epic but frequently scary. You…...

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 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…...

In the Zero RB Universe, Shawn Siegele breaks down the RB landscape with a look at Week 3 usage and Week 4 matchups.  The Zero RB Universe won’t be the same thing every week, but as a Friday article this time around, I’ll use the Game Level Similarity Projections, Strength of Schedule Streamer, NFL Matchups tab from the Stat Explorer, and the Advanced Team Stats…...

Shawn Siegele uses the RotoViz tools to find three tight end plays for Week 4. I’m filling in for our TE guru, Neil Dutton, this week. Let’s dive right into the intel from the Game Level Similarity Projections, Strength of Schedule Streamer, and NFL Player Explorer to find three options at different price levels for Week 4. 1 Trade, 1 Sleeper, and 1 Streamer with…...

A man . . . sees a unicorn cross his path and disappear. That in itself is startling, but there are precedents for mystical encounters of various kinds . . . until — “My God,” says a second man, “I must be dreaming, I thought I saw a unicorn.” At which point, a dimension is added that makes the experience as alarming as it will…...

Dan: I’m older, and I’m much less friendly to $%#@ing change. Al Swearengen: Change ain’t lookin’ for friends. Change calls the tune we dance to. — Deadwood Rest-of-season rankings felt like the appropriate frame for this week’s Zero RB Universe. Nothing distills the backward- and forward-looking elements of RB evaluation quite like having to rank the players ROS. To understand where the backfields have gone…...

Shawn Siegele breaks down the weekly plan, broaches the important questions in the podcast preview, and explains how subscribers can use the RotoViz tools to capitalize again in Week 3. “We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our…...

Shawn Siegele examines the evolving running back landscape and breaks down some of the important tactical decisions in redraft and dynasty. The Zero RB Watch list will become the Zero RB Universe and be both the same and different in 2023. It’ll include enough RB peripherals from the Advanced Stat Explorer, Stealing Signals tool, SOS Streamer, Weekly Stat Explorer, NFL Pace tool, Game Splits, FFPC…...

I can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and I can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and I can do you all three concurrent or consecutive, but I can’t do you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory—they’re all blood, you see. – Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Week 1 brought a torrent of victories for the…...

Shawn Siegele details what the 2023 in-season will look like from a tools, articles, and podcasting perspective. With a glorious, harrowing, and occasionally desultory Week 1 mostly in the books, it’s overreaction season. Talking about Week 1 is almost as much fun as watching it play out on the gridiron (especially if you were starting players like Tua Tagovailoa, Tyler Allgeier, and Brandon Aiyuk). During…...