Shawn Siegele breaks down the first four rounds of his Never-Too-Early Best Ball draft, looking at the best and most controversial picks. The FFPC’s new best ball contest runs through April 28 and concludes with the NFL draft. With a $25,000 grand prize, it’s the perfect format for RotoViz readers who are familiar with the Best Ball Workshop. We’ll have more best ball content than…...

With the fantasy football regular season coming to an end, it is time to rest turn our attention to the playoffs. Underdog and Drafters launched NFL Playoff Best Ball tournaments, so it’s time to put your regular season winnings to use. Michael Dubner provides a Playoff Best Ball Rankings Model. How to Win Playoff Best Ball Tournaments: Projections vs Game Theory Just like in DFS,…...

Bjorn Yang-Vaernet explores how best ball drafters sabotage themselves by taking too many running backs and how to build a roster after a WR/TE start I recently drafted in my home redraft league. I started off with Travis Kelce and by the time it came back to my pick in Round 2, so many running backs were taken that I ended up with Stefon Diggs.((My…...

Bjorn Yang-Vaernet shares three RBs with asymmetric upside that complement WR-heavy roster builds in best ball. In my article last week, I wrote about how to make the most of a late-round draft pick by starting with back-to-back wide receivers. Drafters that followed the structural guidelines within that piece will likely have one, or possibly two, running backs heading into Round 9. In this article,…...

Bjorn Yang-Vaernet explores how two structural guidelines can turn a late-round draft pick into a roster that can rival any Christian McCaffrey team. During the past two months, Shawn Siegele put out a number of articles detailing how to make the best of a late-round draft pick in best ball. One of the key tenets of his argument is picking the elite wide receivers. It…...

Originally published August 9th, Zachary Krueger helps you prepare for FFPC best ball tournaments by reverse engineering the perfect draft. A few weeks ago I outlined in my recent article Reverse Engineering Your FFPC Best Ball Slim Draft Could be the Key to Winning $100,000 how Shawn Siegele and I tackled one of our builds in the FFPC best ball tournament. Today we head back to…...

Bjorn Yang-Vaernet explains the three roster-building guidelines to follow after drafting Travis Kelce and running back in the first two rounds to more than double your baseline win rate. In the 2019 season when Christian McCaffrey had the legendary 448.4 PPR fantasy point season, best ball managers that had him on their team won an insane 36.9% of the time. Considering 8.3% is the baseline…...

Meng Song discusses the intriguing profiles for two deep sleepers at wide receiver and explains why they’re exactly what you need to win your best ball contests. Many are talking about Laviska Shenault and Darnell Mooney as potential breakout candidates in their second year in the NFL. It’s easy to understand why, as Shenault has tantalizing athleticism and yards after the catch ability, and Mooney showed…...

Sam Wallace profiles an assortment of late-round running backs and highlights the importance of pass-catching and efficiency. Pass-catching running backs have become a sort of cheat code in recent years. As the industry has shifted towards more point-per-reception (PPR) scoring, the available pool of relevant players has grown exponentially. While we can debate whether three dump-off passes for 10 yards should be worth the same…...

Bjorn Yang-Vaernet makes the case for why drafting Travis Kelce early in Round 1 can not only lead to a higher floor, but a better ceiling in 2021 best ball. In the Stealing Banana’s episode “Is Modified Zero RB Part of the Zero RB Universe?” (31:00 min), Ben Gretch and Shawn Siegele talked about the questions surrounding the running backs in Round 1 going after…...

Michael Dubner continues his deep dive series in stacking for Best Ball Tournaments. So far we’ve touched on historical success of the most popular stacks and we uncovered three successful stacks that the Best Ball community is ignoring. Single-stacks are flooding best ball draft boards, but like in DFS, fantasy football managers should take it to the next level with double stacks. Here we’ll see…...