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Blair Andrews
October 12, 2024
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These 2 Underused Running Back Metrics Are the Keys to Both Reality and Fantasy Wins: 1 Must-Draft Breakout RB and 4 More to Monitor Closely
Blair Andrews
August 31, 2024
Blair Andrews searches through the advanced RB metrics to help you locate the breakout smash play of the 2024 season. In previous installments of the RB breakout pieces we’ve looked both at how age and experience impact RB breakouts, and also at which metrics best predict future breakouts for non-rookies. One question we haven’t investigated is why these breakouts tend to happen. Luckily we can…...
Draft Breakdown: How to Evaluate Your Team’s Chances in an FFPC FantasyPros Championship League
Blair Andrews
August 28, 2024
Blair Andrews’ FFPC redraft strategy session breaks down all the dos and don’ts to help your high-stakes team win $1 million. If you want to win a million dollars playing fantasy football, there aren’t many more accessible ways to do it than the FFPC FantasyPros Championship. This contest features the same top prize as its sister contest, the FFPC Main Event, and has an ever…...
Become a Shark in Your Home League: These High-Stakes Favorites Are the 12 Best Current Values in ESPN Drafts
Blair Andrews
August 24, 2024
Blair Andrews compares ESPN average draft positions against those in FFPC Main Event and FantasyPros Championship drafts to find the best current values in ESPN leagues. Even with the huge prize pools available in the many high-stakes contests — including one that represents your most cost-effective chance to become a millionaire playing fantasy football — still there’s nothing like the feeling of winning your home…...
These Undervalued Metrics Are the Secret to Unlocking RB Breakouts – 4 Must-Draft RBs for 2024
Blair Andrews
August 24, 2024
Blair Andrews helps you conceptualize the types of RB performances at the NFL level that lead to huge breakouts and big-time win rates. Last time we uncovered a group of running backs that have historically returned a 40% breakout rate. But knowing that a certain group of players break out at a higher rate than others doesn’t necessarily tell us who is most likely to…...
This Simple Hack Has Delivered a 40% RB Breakout Rate and Could Be Your Path to Finding the Next Fantasy Superstar: 4 Cheap Running Backs Poised to Explode
Blair Andrews
August 22, 2024
Blair Andrews helps you locate a simple hack that has delivered a 40% RB breakout rate. Want to find four RBs about to explode? Read on. As we hit fantasy football crunch time, the RotoViz team is helping you find the most precious of fantasy commodities: the league-smashing running back. Shawn Siegele has started the world-famous Zero RB Candidates Countdown. Michael Dubner has one-upped him with…...
How to Turn a $350 FFPC Draft into a $1 Million Payday with 6 Elite WRs and 6 Explosive RB Lottery Tickets
Blair Andrews
August 20, 2024
Blair Andrews breaks down a recent FFPC FantasyPros Championship draft, revealing how to navigate WR cliffs and overeager TE drafters to build a roster with explosive upside. Last week I highlighted some of the best values in the FFPC FantasyPros Championship format. That contest features the same top payout as the Main Event, but costs only $350 to enter. The lower buy-in likely leads to…...
High-Stakes Arbitrage Opportunities: The 10 Best Value Picks in the FFPC FantasyPros Championship
Blair Andrews
August 15, 2024
While the FFPC Main Event gets most of the attention during redraft season — and rightly so, as the biggest high-stakes fantasy contest around — we shouldn’t forget about FFPC’s sister tournament that features just as big a grand prize and an even bigger prize pool. The FantasyPros Championship features a $350 buy-in and a $1 million top prize. It also offers a slightly flatter…...
The Open Score Superstars Set to Turn Fantasy Football on Its Head: 5 Wide Receivers About to Join the Elite Ranks
Blair Andrews
August 10, 2024
In my last article I highlighted one of ESPN Analytics Receiver Tracking Metrics: YAC Score. Deebo Samuel has been among the best in the league at YAC Score since his rookie season. And at least one Year 2 breakout candidate looks like he might be on a similar trajectory. But YAC Score isn’t the only metric ESPN tracks. In fact, one could say it’s not…...
Deebo Samuel Is an After-the-Catch Unicorn, but This Year 2 Breakout Candidate’s Rookie Season Was Eerily Similar
Blair Andrews
August 8, 2024
The player tracking and advanced charting era gives us a multitude of metrics that measure how well receivers get open, how good they are at turning opportunities into receptions, and how good they are at turning those receptions into yards and touchdowns. I enjoy getting into the nitty-gritty of the advanced metrics and teasing out which methods for measuring those various skills are most exploitable…....
7 Undervalued Wide Receivers You Should Draft Right Now, and 14 More to Add to Your Watchlist
Blair Andrews
August 3, 2024
Blair Andrews’ Wide Receiver Breakout Series culminates in a close look at the players most likely to provide an outsized return in 2024. I’ve spent the last couple of weeks diving deep into the dynamics of WR breakouts and secondary breakouts. Be sure to check out those articles if you missed any: These Second-Year WRs Are Going to Crush Expectations and Win Fantasy Titles It’s…...
Misconceptions About Wide Receiver Age Curves Create Opportunity: 3 Redraft and 3 Dynasty Targets
Blair Andrews
August 1, 2024
Blair Andrews continues his Breakout WR Series with a look at what we tend to get right – and more importantly, get wrong – about wide receiver aging curves. The Breakout WR Series These Second-Year WRs Are Going to Crush Expectations and Win Fantasy Titles It’s Easy to Get the Age Part Wrong: How to Exploit Misconceptions About Age and Fantasy Scoring The Best Thing…...
There’s Breaking Out, and Then There’s Breaking Out: The Immense Value of Secondary Breakouts and the Possibilities for 2024
Blair Andrews
July 30, 2024
Fantasy football is about creating more WR firepower than your opponents. You can’t do it without numbers, but you can’t win tournaments with numbers if you don’t select the right guys. Nothing provides more fantasy upside than hitting on undervalued WRs. That’s been the focus of my WR Breakout Series, a research project that hits this topic from a variety of important angles. The importance…...
Embracing Uncertainty Without Unnecessary Risk: The Overwhelming Power of Wide Receiver Breakouts and How to Find Them
Blair Andrews
July 26, 2024
Blair Andrews pens Part 3 in a series helping you build super teams through a better understanding of wide receiver breakouts. Since the early days at RotoViz we’ve spilled plenty of words explaining why you wanted to take a fast and furious approach to WR drafting. But we’ve spent even more time helping you find the right WRs. Of course, the NFL continues to evolve and…...
What You Might Be Getting Wrong About WR Age and Fantasy Breakouts: 2 Players to Target Aggressively and 6 Surprisingly Strong Fallback Options
Blair Andrews
July 23, 2024
Year 2 remains the key year for wide receiver breakouts, but it’s not as simple as just drafting every Year 2 WR. As we noted previously, a player like Jonathan Mingo, who ran 511 routes in 2023, doesn’t have much room to increase his opportunity. The prospects for him to improve his efficiency are not hopeful either. And there may be other reasons we prefer…...
Should We Still Be Chasing Year 2 WR Breakouts? 3 Receivers History Is Begging You to Draft
Blair Andrews
July 21, 2024
In 2021, DeVonta Smith, then a rookie, was going off the board in Round 8 of FFPC Best Ball drafts. At the time it might have seemed early, but it was about 30 picks later than fellow rookie Ja’Marr Chase. In any case, Smith ended up finishing his rookie year with nearly 180 PPR points, including about 13 points over expectation — a solid finish…...
This Contrarian Approach to FFPC Superflex Leagues Is Even Stronger in Scott Fish Bowl 14
Blair Andrews
July 8, 2024
Scott Fish Bowl online drafts start today. The kickoff of the annual charity tournament — now in its 14th season — has for years marked the unofficial start of draft season. Yes, many of us have been drafting best ball teams all offseason. We degenerates marked the start of “draft season” a long time ago. Still, few events can energize you for the return of…...
You’re Probably Doing Double-Elite TE Wrong: Why the Most Contrarian Build Is Also One of the Strongest
Blair Andrews
July 3, 2024
The Right Way to Approach Double-Elite TE… Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...
Rome Odunze Mixes Crazy Upside With Multiple Red Flags Even Before the Real Controversy: The Anatomy of Rookie WR Landing Spot Evaluation
Blair Andrews
June 18, 2024
Rome Odunze was drafted by Chicago with the ninth overall pick, who bolstered their receiving corps after the Bears made Caleb Williams the first player picked in the 2024 NFL Draft. With D.J. Moore and Keenan Allen already on the roster, along with new running back addition D’Andre Swift, the Bears do not appear to be the best situation for a rookie to earn targets…....
Stuck in a Bad-Draft-Slot Rut? Mix Things Up and Get Your Guys with the All-Reach Team
Blair Andrews
June 13, 2024
On some podcast episodes, Shawn has noted — when lamenting the preponderance of late picks in his Best Ball Mania 5 portfolio — that if you don’t get a top-10 pick, you basically don’t have access to any first-round values. (Of course, that assumes a rational drafter takes Garrett Wilson ahead of ADP, leaving you with A.J. Brown as an ADP — but not rankings…...
Elite Onesies, Bye Weeks, and Opportunity Cost: The High-Wire Balancing Act of a Real-Life Underdog Draft
Blair Andrews
June 5, 2024
As results try to stay ahead of wide receiver inflation, the 2024 landscape offers serious pressure to load up on the position early, especially as RB options in Rounds 2 through 5 are less appealing. Yet this is easier said than done in some ways. It’s also more important than ever to come away with at least one — and in some cases preferably two…...
These 2 Underused Running Back Metrics Are the Keys to Both Reality and Fantasy Wins: 1 Must-Draft Breakout RB and 4 More to Monitor Closely
Blair Andrews
August 31, 2024
Blair Andrews searches through the advanced RB metrics to help you locate the breakout smash play of the 2024 season. In previous installments of the RB breakout pieces we’ve looked both at how age and experience impact RB breakouts, and also at which metrics best predict future breakouts for non-rookies. One question we haven’t investigated is why these breakouts tend to happen. Luckily we can…...
Draft Breakdown: How to Evaluate Your Team’s Chances in an FFPC FantasyPros Championship League
Blair Andrews
August 28, 2024
Blair Andrews’ FFPC redraft strategy session breaks down all the dos and don’ts to help your high-stakes team win $1 million. If you want to win a million dollars playing fantasy football, there aren’t many more accessible ways to do it than the FFPC FantasyPros Championship. This contest features the same top prize as its sister contest, the FFPC Main Event, and has an ever…...
Become a Shark in Your Home League: These High-Stakes Favorites Are the 12 Best Current Values in ESPN Drafts
Blair Andrews
August 24, 2024
Blair Andrews compares ESPN average draft positions against those in FFPC Main Event and FantasyPros Championship drafts to find the best current values in ESPN leagues. Even with the huge prize pools available in the many high-stakes contests — including one that represents your most cost-effective chance to become a millionaire playing fantasy football — still there’s nothing like the feeling of winning your home…...
These Undervalued Metrics Are the Secret to Unlocking RB Breakouts – 4 Must-Draft RBs for 2024
Blair Andrews
August 24, 2024
Blair Andrews helps you conceptualize the types of RB performances at the NFL level that lead to huge breakouts and big-time win rates. Last time we uncovered a group of running backs that have historically returned a 40% breakout rate. But knowing that a certain group of players break out at a higher rate than others doesn’t necessarily tell us who is most likely to…...
This Simple Hack Has Delivered a 40% RB Breakout Rate and Could Be Your Path to Finding the Next Fantasy Superstar: 4 Cheap Running Backs Poised to Explode
Blair Andrews
August 22, 2024
Blair Andrews helps you locate a simple hack that has delivered a 40% RB breakout rate. Want to find four RBs about to explode? Read on. As we hit fantasy football crunch time, the RotoViz team is helping you find the most precious of fantasy commodities: the league-smashing running back. Shawn Siegele has started the world-famous Zero RB Candidates Countdown. Michael Dubner has one-upped him with…...
How to Turn a $350 FFPC Draft into a $1 Million Payday with 6 Elite WRs and 6 Explosive RB Lottery Tickets
Blair Andrews
August 20, 2024
Blair Andrews breaks down a recent FFPC FantasyPros Championship draft, revealing how to navigate WR cliffs and overeager TE drafters to build a roster with explosive upside. Last week I highlighted some of the best values in the FFPC FantasyPros Championship format. That contest features the same top payout as the Main Event, but costs only $350 to enter. The lower buy-in likely leads to…...
High-Stakes Arbitrage Opportunities: The 10 Best Value Picks in the FFPC FantasyPros Championship
Blair Andrews
August 15, 2024
While the FFPC Main Event gets most of the attention during redraft season — and rightly so, as the biggest high-stakes fantasy contest around — we shouldn’t forget about FFPC’s sister tournament that features just as big a grand prize and an even bigger prize pool. The FantasyPros Championship features a $350 buy-in and a $1 million top prize. It also offers a slightly flatter…...
The Open Score Superstars Set to Turn Fantasy Football on Its Head: 5 Wide Receivers About to Join the Elite Ranks
Blair Andrews
August 10, 2024
In my last article I highlighted one of ESPN Analytics Receiver Tracking Metrics: YAC Score. Deebo Samuel has been among the best in the league at YAC Score since his rookie season. And at least one Year 2 breakout candidate looks like he might be on a similar trajectory. But YAC Score isn’t the only metric ESPN tracks. In fact, one could say it’s not…...
Deebo Samuel Is an After-the-Catch Unicorn, but This Year 2 Breakout Candidate’s Rookie Season Was Eerily Similar
Blair Andrews
August 8, 2024
The player tracking and advanced charting era gives us a multitude of metrics that measure how well receivers get open, how good they are at turning opportunities into receptions, and how good they are at turning those receptions into yards and touchdowns. I enjoy getting into the nitty-gritty of the advanced metrics and teasing out which methods for measuring those various skills are most exploitable…....
7 Undervalued Wide Receivers You Should Draft Right Now, and 14 More to Add to Your Watchlist
Blair Andrews
August 3, 2024
Blair Andrews’ Wide Receiver Breakout Series culminates in a close look at the players most likely to provide an outsized return in 2024. I’ve spent the last couple of weeks diving deep into the dynamics of WR breakouts and secondary breakouts. Be sure to check out those articles if you missed any: These Second-Year WRs Are Going to Crush Expectations and Win Fantasy Titles It’s…...
Misconceptions About Wide Receiver Age Curves Create Opportunity: 3 Redraft and 3 Dynasty Targets
Blair Andrews
August 1, 2024
Blair Andrews continues his Breakout WR Series with a look at what we tend to get right – and more importantly, get wrong – about wide receiver aging curves. The Breakout WR Series These Second-Year WRs Are Going to Crush Expectations and Win Fantasy Titles It’s Easy to Get the Age Part Wrong: How to Exploit Misconceptions About Age and Fantasy Scoring The Best Thing…...
There’s Breaking Out, and Then There’s Breaking Out: The Immense Value of Secondary Breakouts and the Possibilities for 2024
Blair Andrews
July 30, 2024
Fantasy football is about creating more WR firepower than your opponents. You can’t do it without numbers, but you can’t win tournaments with numbers if you don’t select the right guys. Nothing provides more fantasy upside than hitting on undervalued WRs. That’s been the focus of my WR Breakout Series, a research project that hits this topic from a variety of important angles. The importance…...
Embracing Uncertainty Without Unnecessary Risk: The Overwhelming Power of Wide Receiver Breakouts and How to Find Them
Blair Andrews
July 26, 2024
Blair Andrews pens Part 3 in a series helping you build super teams through a better understanding of wide receiver breakouts. Since the early days at RotoViz we’ve spilled plenty of words explaining why you wanted to take a fast and furious approach to WR drafting. But we’ve spent even more time helping you find the right WRs. Of course, the NFL continues to evolve and…...
What You Might Be Getting Wrong About WR Age and Fantasy Breakouts: 2 Players to Target Aggressively and 6 Surprisingly Strong Fallback Options
Blair Andrews
July 23, 2024
Year 2 remains the key year for wide receiver breakouts, but it’s not as simple as just drafting every Year 2 WR. As we noted previously, a player like Jonathan Mingo, who ran 511 routes in 2023, doesn’t have much room to increase his opportunity. The prospects for him to improve his efficiency are not hopeful either. And there may be other reasons we prefer…...
Should We Still Be Chasing Year 2 WR Breakouts? 3 Receivers History Is Begging You to Draft
Blair Andrews
July 21, 2024
In 2021, DeVonta Smith, then a rookie, was going off the board in Round 8 of FFPC Best Ball drafts. At the time it might have seemed early, but it was about 30 picks later than fellow rookie Ja’Marr Chase. In any case, Smith ended up finishing his rookie year with nearly 180 PPR points, including about 13 points over expectation — a solid finish…...
This Contrarian Approach to FFPC Superflex Leagues Is Even Stronger in Scott Fish Bowl 14
Blair Andrews
July 8, 2024
Scott Fish Bowl online drafts start today. The kickoff of the annual charity tournament — now in its 14th season — has for years marked the unofficial start of draft season. Yes, many of us have been drafting best ball teams all offseason. We degenerates marked the start of “draft season” a long time ago. Still, few events can energize you for the return of…...
You’re Probably Doing Double-Elite TE Wrong: Why the Most Contrarian Build Is Also One of the Strongest
Blair Andrews
July 3, 2024
The Right Way to Approach Double-Elite TE… Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...
Rome Odunze Mixes Crazy Upside With Multiple Red Flags Even Before the Real Controversy: The Anatomy of Rookie WR Landing Spot Evaluation
Blair Andrews
June 18, 2024
Rome Odunze was drafted by Chicago with the ninth overall pick, who bolstered their receiving corps after the Bears made Caleb Williams the first player picked in the 2024 NFL Draft. With D.J. Moore and Keenan Allen already on the roster, along with new running back addition D’Andre Swift, the Bears do not appear to be the best situation for a rookie to earn targets…....
Stuck in a Bad-Draft-Slot Rut? Mix Things Up and Get Your Guys with the All-Reach Team
Blair Andrews
June 13, 2024
On some podcast episodes, Shawn has noted — when lamenting the preponderance of late picks in his Best Ball Mania 5 portfolio — that if you don’t get a top-10 pick, you basically don’t have access to any first-round values. (Of course, that assumes a rational drafter takes Garrett Wilson ahead of ADP, leaving you with A.J. Brown as an ADP — but not rankings…...
Elite Onesies, Bye Weeks, and Opportunity Cost: The High-Wire Balancing Act of a Real-Life Underdog Draft
Blair Andrews
June 5, 2024
As results try to stay ahead of wide receiver inflation, the 2024 landscape offers serious pressure to load up on the position early, especially as RB options in Rounds 2 through 5 are less appealing. Yet this is easier said than done in some ways. It’s also more important than ever to come away with at least one — and in some cases preferably two…...
These 2 Underused Running Back Metrics Are the Keys to Both Reality and Fantasy Wins: 1 Must-Draft Breakout RB and 4 More to Monitor Closely
Blair Andrews
August 31, 2024
Blair Andrews searches through the advanced RB metrics to help you locate the breakout smash play of the 2024 season. In previous installments of the RB breakout pieces we’ve looked both at how age and experience impact RB breakouts, and also at which metrics best predict future breakouts for non-rookies. One question we haven’t investigated is why these breakouts tend to happen. Luckily we can…...
Draft Breakdown: How to Evaluate Your Team’s Chances in an FFPC FantasyPros Championship League
Blair Andrews
August 28, 2024
Blair Andrews’ FFPC redraft strategy session breaks down all the dos and don’ts to help your high-stakes team win $1 million. If you want to win a million dollars playing fantasy football, there aren’t many more accessible ways to do it than the FFPC FantasyPros Championship. This contest features the same top prize as its sister contest, the FFPC Main Event, and has an ever…...
Become a Shark in Your Home League: These High-Stakes Favorites Are the 12 Best Current Values in ESPN Drafts
Blair Andrews
August 24, 2024
Blair Andrews compares ESPN average draft positions against those in FFPC Main Event and FantasyPros Championship drafts to find the best current values in ESPN leagues. Even with the huge prize pools available in the many high-stakes contests — including one that represents your most cost-effective chance to become a millionaire playing fantasy football — still there’s nothing like the feeling of winning your home…...
These Undervalued Metrics Are the Secret to Unlocking RB Breakouts – 4 Must-Draft RBs for 2024
Blair Andrews
August 24, 2024
Blair Andrews helps you conceptualize the types of RB performances at the NFL level that lead to huge breakouts and big-time win rates. Last time we uncovered a group of running backs that have historically returned a 40% breakout rate. But knowing that a certain group of players break out at a higher rate than others doesn’t necessarily tell us who is most likely to…...
This Simple Hack Has Delivered a 40% RB Breakout Rate and Could Be Your Path to Finding the Next Fantasy Superstar: 4 Cheap Running Backs Poised to Explode
Blair Andrews
August 22, 2024
Blair Andrews helps you locate a simple hack that has delivered a 40% RB breakout rate. Want to find four RBs about to explode? Read on. As we hit fantasy football crunch time, the RotoViz team is helping you find the most precious of fantasy commodities: the league-smashing running back. Shawn Siegele has started the world-famous Zero RB Candidates Countdown. Michael Dubner has one-upped him with…...
How to Turn a $350 FFPC Draft into a $1 Million Payday with 6 Elite WRs and 6 Explosive RB Lottery Tickets
Blair Andrews
August 20, 2024
Blair Andrews breaks down a recent FFPC FantasyPros Championship draft, revealing how to navigate WR cliffs and overeager TE drafters to build a roster with explosive upside. Last week I highlighted some of the best values in the FFPC FantasyPros Championship format. That contest features the same top payout as the Main Event, but costs only $350 to enter. The lower buy-in likely leads to…...
High-Stakes Arbitrage Opportunities: The 10 Best Value Picks in the FFPC FantasyPros Championship
Blair Andrews
August 15, 2024
While the FFPC Main Event gets most of the attention during redraft season — and rightly so, as the biggest high-stakes fantasy contest around — we shouldn’t forget about FFPC’s sister tournament that features just as big a grand prize and an even bigger prize pool. The FantasyPros Championship features a $350 buy-in and a $1 million top prize. It also offers a slightly flatter…...
The Open Score Superstars Set to Turn Fantasy Football on Its Head: 5 Wide Receivers About to Join the Elite Ranks
Blair Andrews
August 10, 2024
In my last article I highlighted one of ESPN Analytics Receiver Tracking Metrics: YAC Score. Deebo Samuel has been among the best in the league at YAC Score since his rookie season. And at least one Year 2 breakout candidate looks like he might be on a similar trajectory. But YAC Score isn’t the only metric ESPN tracks. In fact, one could say it’s not…...
Deebo Samuel Is an After-the-Catch Unicorn, but This Year 2 Breakout Candidate’s Rookie Season Was Eerily Similar
Blair Andrews
August 8, 2024
The player tracking and advanced charting era gives us a multitude of metrics that measure how well receivers get open, how good they are at turning opportunities into receptions, and how good they are at turning those receptions into yards and touchdowns. I enjoy getting into the nitty-gritty of the advanced metrics and teasing out which methods for measuring those various skills are most exploitable…....
7 Undervalued Wide Receivers You Should Draft Right Now, and 14 More to Add to Your Watchlist
Blair Andrews
August 3, 2024
Blair Andrews’ Wide Receiver Breakout Series culminates in a close look at the players most likely to provide an outsized return in 2024. I’ve spent the last couple of weeks diving deep into the dynamics of WR breakouts and secondary breakouts. Be sure to check out those articles if you missed any: These Second-Year WRs Are Going to Crush Expectations and Win Fantasy Titles It’s…...
Misconceptions About Wide Receiver Age Curves Create Opportunity: 3 Redraft and 3 Dynasty Targets
Blair Andrews
August 1, 2024
Blair Andrews continues his Breakout WR Series with a look at what we tend to get right – and more importantly, get wrong – about wide receiver aging curves. The Breakout WR Series These Second-Year WRs Are Going to Crush Expectations and Win Fantasy Titles It’s Easy to Get the Age Part Wrong: How to Exploit Misconceptions About Age and Fantasy Scoring The Best Thing…...
There’s Breaking Out, and Then There’s Breaking Out: The Immense Value of Secondary Breakouts and the Possibilities for 2024
Blair Andrews
July 30, 2024
Fantasy football is about creating more WR firepower than your opponents. You can’t do it without numbers, but you can’t win tournaments with numbers if you don’t select the right guys. Nothing provides more fantasy upside than hitting on undervalued WRs. That’s been the focus of my WR Breakout Series, a research project that hits this topic from a variety of important angles. The importance…...
Embracing Uncertainty Without Unnecessary Risk: The Overwhelming Power of Wide Receiver Breakouts and How to Find Them
Blair Andrews
July 26, 2024
Blair Andrews pens Part 3 in a series helping you build super teams through a better understanding of wide receiver breakouts. Since the early days at RotoViz we’ve spilled plenty of words explaining why you wanted to take a fast and furious approach to WR drafting. But we’ve spent even more time helping you find the right WRs. Of course, the NFL continues to evolve and…...
What You Might Be Getting Wrong About WR Age and Fantasy Breakouts: 2 Players to Target Aggressively and 6 Surprisingly Strong Fallback Options
Blair Andrews
July 23, 2024
Year 2 remains the key year for wide receiver breakouts, but it’s not as simple as just drafting every Year 2 WR. As we noted previously, a player like Jonathan Mingo, who ran 511 routes in 2023, doesn’t have much room to increase his opportunity. The prospects for him to improve his efficiency are not hopeful either. And there may be other reasons we prefer…...
Should We Still Be Chasing Year 2 WR Breakouts? 3 Receivers History Is Begging You to Draft
Blair Andrews
July 21, 2024
In 2021, DeVonta Smith, then a rookie, was going off the board in Round 8 of FFPC Best Ball drafts. At the time it might have seemed early, but it was about 30 picks later than fellow rookie Ja’Marr Chase. In any case, Smith ended up finishing his rookie year with nearly 180 PPR points, including about 13 points over expectation — a solid finish…...
This Contrarian Approach to FFPC Superflex Leagues Is Even Stronger in Scott Fish Bowl 14
Blair Andrews
July 8, 2024
Scott Fish Bowl online drafts start today. The kickoff of the annual charity tournament — now in its 14th season — has for years marked the unofficial start of draft season. Yes, many of us have been drafting best ball teams all offseason. We degenerates marked the start of “draft season” a long time ago. Still, few events can energize you for the return of…...
You’re Probably Doing Double-Elite TE Wrong: Why the Most Contrarian Build Is Also One of the Strongest
Blair Andrews
July 3, 2024
The Right Way to Approach Double-Elite TE… Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...
Rome Odunze Mixes Crazy Upside With Multiple Red Flags Even Before the Real Controversy: The Anatomy of Rookie WR Landing Spot Evaluation
Blair Andrews
June 18, 2024
Rome Odunze was drafted by Chicago with the ninth overall pick, who bolstered their receiving corps after the Bears made Caleb Williams the first player picked in the 2024 NFL Draft. With D.J. Moore and Keenan Allen already on the roster, along with new running back addition D’Andre Swift, the Bears do not appear to be the best situation for a rookie to earn targets…....
Stuck in a Bad-Draft-Slot Rut? Mix Things Up and Get Your Guys with the All-Reach Team
Blair Andrews
June 13, 2024
On some podcast episodes, Shawn has noted — when lamenting the preponderance of late picks in his Best Ball Mania 5 portfolio — that if you don’t get a top-10 pick, you basically don’t have access to any first-round values. (Of course, that assumes a rational drafter takes Garrett Wilson ahead of ADP, leaving you with A.J. Brown as an ADP — but not rankings…...
Elite Onesies, Bye Weeks, and Opportunity Cost: The High-Wire Balancing Act of a Real-Life Underdog Draft
Blair Andrews
June 5, 2024
As results try to stay ahead of wide receiver inflation, the 2024 landscape offers serious pressure to load up on the position early, especially as RB options in Rounds 2 through 5 are less appealing. Yet this is easier said than done in some ways. It’s also more important than ever to come away with at least one — and in some cases preferably two…...
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