Merry Christmas to everyone in the RotoViz community. I hope you’ve enjoyed the Monday articles, with a bit of a pod emphasis. A large chunk of the draft pods featured teams that went on to a good deal of success, including a BBM semifinal squad with Ben Gretch on Stealing Bananas, a BBM semifinal squad with Peter Overzet on the Best Ball Banana Stand, and…...

It was a huge week for RotoViz squads in fantasy tournaments, which makes the semifinals even more fun for our community. In today’s edition of the Zero RB Universe, I’ll again be using the tools like the Weekly Stat Explorer, NFL Player Explorer, Strength of Schedule Streamer, and Advanced Stats Explorer to give a combined picture of usage and matchup. How do the evolving workload…...

“Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn’t take it.” ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Whew! Nothing highlights the agony and the ecstasy of fantasy football quite like a high-scoring playoff week where healthy first-round picks score anywhere from 41 to 0.4, where Josh Allen completes seven passes but Baker Mayfield throws for 381 and 4, where Jaylen…...

In the Week 15 edition of the Zero RB Universe, Shawn Siegele looks at the intersection of recent usage and upcoming matchup to help you prepare for the fantasy quarterfinals. Congratulations to the OT listeners who rode late Monday night heroics from DeAndre Hopkins to a Main Event victory over Colm and me. And congrats to all of the FFPC title winners.  The official…...

Shawn Siegele breaks down a few of the key matchups for Monday Night Football and highlights the biggest developments of fantasy football Week 14. Week 14 offers the FFPC finals, and I felt blessed this season to get three of nine Main Event squads into the championship round. That dovetails nicely with the podcast-oriented feel of the Monday column, as one team was with my…...

Well, that didn’t last long. It took Joe Mixon only a handful of snaps to blow by the 12-point threshold and send our Main Event squad to defeat. Mixon’s well-rounded effort produced easily his best game of the season. He managed the EP double-double, generated 5.7 total FPOE, and impressed with four evaded tackles on his six receptions. Mixon led the position group in both…...

Shawn Siegele looks at every NFL roster and explains where you need to stash and where you need to cut. Monday Night Football didn’t go as well for the MEs as I had hoped. Blair and I lost a team in the final moments, but the blow was softened somewhat by also losing Jonathan Taylor to injury on Tuesday. We wouldn’t have had the Round…...

Shawn Siegele breaks down his running back dynasty rankings and discusses the Superflex trade value of every relevant back at the FFPC deadline. As we head into Week 12, I’ll still be using the suite of RotoViz tools to break down RB workloads, EP profiles, rushing peripherals, and route inclusion. But I also want to focus on dynasty trade values as we head into the…...

“Be happy — if you’re not even happy, what’s so good about surviving?” ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Week 11 was simply not a lot of fun. One of my co-managers remarked that Thursday was so bad Keaton Mitchell’s dud was only about the fifth-worst thing that happened, and that was prior to Sunday’s carnage where we reached Week 1 levels of injury-related nightmare…....

In Week 11 of the Zero RB Universe Shawn Siegele breaks down all of the top moves as the 2023 fantasy football trade deadline nears. This article has been a joy to write in 2023, as the RB landscape in-season has been just as compelling as the ADP landscape pre-season. Today’s edition will dive into the Weekly Explorer to break down RB usage – opps,…...

“We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.” ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead The return of Kyler Murray and the continued emergence of Joshua Dobbs perfectly bookended one of the best weeks of fantasy in recent memory. Rarely is it this much fun…...

Shawn Siegele breaks down running back usage and efficiency from Week 9, previews the most important matchups in Week 10, and discusses the best moves you can make for rest-of-season fantasy dominance. This week’s Zero RB Universe goes into the weeds with an in-depth look at opportunities and expected points via the NFL Weekly Stat Explorer. We’ll then dive into all of the advanced stats,…...

That’s 72 unforced errors for Richie Tenenbaum. He’s playing the worst tennis of his life . . . He’s taken off his shoes and one of his socks and . . . actually, I think he’s crying. – Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson Only the Lions, 49ers, Jaguars, and Broncos were on the bye in Week 9, but if your squads featured a lot of Christian…...

Shawn Siegele dives into all of the Week 9 matchups, helps you find the best deep stashes, and recommends some usage and schedule-based trades, including a couple that are sure to generate controversy. As a thank you for your patience with my recent travel and health blips, this week’s Zero RB Universe is the longest in approximately a decade of writing the article. That also…...

“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said — no. But somehow we missed it.” ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Rosencrantz and Guildenstern must constantly struggle with not being the main characters in their own story. Worse, they experience the nagging sensation of having arrived in a moment with no antecedent and with motivations that do not stem…...

Shawn Siegele breaks down all of the most important RB developments headed into Week 7 and recommends several controversial trades. A couple of days into my travels, it’s already been a weird and wild adventure, but nothing compared to a crazy Week 6. The narrative of this season refuses to be written in any given week, and though games were perhaps less dynamic after a…...