Last week we had the Third Annual Apex Experts League draft with a Who’s Who of the top minds in fantasy football analysis, and it was crazy. Drafters were desperate not to be left behind at the wide receiver position. Due to the unexpected turn of events, it provided a great lens through which to examine a couple of the more common criticisms from Zero…...

Targets are the lifeblood of fantasy scoring, but many of our predictions about volume are fragile. It’s difficult to argue with Jacob Rickrode’s thesis that The Same WRs Finish Top 24 Every Single Year…....

The 7 Breakout WRs You Must Own in 2016 featured a couple of surprising inclusions and two shocking omissions. One of those players I desperately wanted to add but could not. DeVante Parker…....

I’ve written at length about the Top 15 RBs to Target if you employ a Zero RB strategy in 2016. One of the fundamental tenets is to emphasize pass-catching backs who could become bell cows with injury or under performance from the starter. It’s perhaps easy to forget that this can also work the other way…....

Breakout performances win fantasy titles. In fantasy football, the biggest risk you can take is playing it safe. There’s a big difference, however, between taking informed risks and indiscriminately investing in unproven players…....

What strategy should I use in 10-team standard leagues? Can you use Zero RB without PPR?…...

Earlier this offseason I published my annual list of the Top 15 RBs to target if you plan to avoid the RB position entirely for the first five to eight rounds. In 2015 that list included league-winning players like Devonta Freeman at No. 2 and Doug Martin at No. 4, as well as hitting on some playoff stars like David Johnson at No. 7…....

When cobbling together a fantasy lineup, you want to draft good players, but you also want to buy as many touches as you can. The owner who buys the most touches will probably win. In many cases these opportunity plays are straightforward. Your brother-in-law is going to win your league because he owns Matt Jones…....

It’s almost impossible not to like Danny Woodhead. He’s one of my favorite reality players, and it’s with no small amount of disappointment that I’m not targeting him in fantasy this season…....

With the 2014 wide receiver class looking like one of the best in history and the depressing 2016 class still lending itself to Rookie Derangement, it’s easy to forget about 2015’s ultra-athletic prospects. Athleticism tends to be an overrated element of WR evaluation, but drafters are always on the lookout for upside players who might fall through the ADP cracks…....

The list of Top 15 Zero RB candidates had a big year in 2015. The Top 5 included league-winners Devonta Freeman and Doug Martin. It also contained serviceable pass-catching backs Duke Johnson and Charles Sims. David Johnson clocked in at No. 7…....

Devin Funchess stands 6 feet 4 inches and weighs 232 pounds. Dorial Green-Beckham can look down on his fellow monster from a height of 6 feet 5 inches. He weighs in at 237 pounds…....

Earlier this summer Justin Winn provided an excellent breakdown of his Projection Machine outlook for the San Diego Chargers fantasy positions. Danny Woodhead is projected for 77 receptions compared to only 29 for Melvin Gordon. Those numbers feel right, but do they properly represent the range of outcomes? Let’s use the RotoViz Screener to get a sense of what we can expect in terms of RB receptions based…...

If the Washington backfield stays status quo through training camp, Matt Jones will be one of the least accomplished running backs to ever enter a season as an unquestioned NFL starter…....

The Indianapolis passing game is probably going to give us league-winners due to volume and opportunity. The Colts play fast, and they lost 161 targets in free agency. Andrew Luck will be throwing to an uncluttered depth chart. In fact, we could see multiple league-winners in the Colts passing game . . . and Donte Moncrief still not be among them…....

The list of Top 15 Zero RB candidates had a big year in 2015. The Top 5 included league-winners Devonta Freeman and Doug Martin. It also contained serviceable pass-catching backs Duke Johnson and Charles Sims. David Johnson clocked in at No. 7…....

Giovani Bernard has never been one of my favorite players. In many ways he’s similar to Devonta Freeman, a player I struggle to draft even though he’s wildly undervalued. It may be precisely because he isn’t sexy that Bernard represents easy value in 2016…....

My preferred lineup construction for MFL10s has four WRs and a TE through the first five picks. This approach had the top win percentage in 2015, and although the future will obviously not perfectly resemble the past, there are plenty of reasons to prefer such a start, RB Apocalypse or not. However, we never want to stop questioning our conclusions. What trends could make this…...