Are the best mobile QBs worth their draft price in best ball drafts? Bjorn Yang-Vaernet examines historical win rates to determine which elite QBs to be overweight and underweight on in 2021. The fantasy football draft has similarities to the stock market. The players are similar to stocks in that one can craft the portfolio of players that you believe in most. However, everything comes…...

The wide receiver dead zone is destroying best ball teams in 2021, but even savvy drafters are often taking the wrong kinds of risks to solve the problem. John Psilas dives into the RotoViz tools and unveils an evidence-based, counterintuitive solution to ramp up win rates. The presence of a running back dead zone has finally penetrated the fantasy consciousness in 2021, but drafters are…...

I recently wrote about five tight ends who were experiencing an uptick in popularity with drafters over at the FFPC. I won’t rehash my findings for you here. What with time being in short supply as we continue on our journey through life. But I would suggest having a glance at it. In the interest of balance, I thought it only fair to have a…...

Most of the current talk in fantasy circles is of the Scott Fish Bowl, the drafting of which unofficially ushers in the new fantasy season. But other drafts are still taking place, especially over at the FFPC, and have been for some time. With this in mind, I thought it might be fun to take a look at a few players at my favorite position…...

Is stacking always the right play in best ball leagues? What if your quarterback picks get much of their fantasy production on the ground, rather than in the passing game? Bjorn Yang-Vaernet explains how to approach stacking with mobile quarterbacks and provides some easy tactics that can give your win rates a significant boost. Blanket rules are pervasive in the fantasy football industry.  Wait on…...

NFL Best Ball drafters have been applying the concepts of stacking learned in DFS to Best Ball Playoff Tournaments. Last week we went through the most popular macro-level stacks, including the common QB-WR1 and QB-WR2 stacks, as well as a very unsuccessful stack that is still commonly drafted. While stacking your studs like Josh Allen to Stefon Diggs and Patrick Mahomes to Tyreek Hill are…...

The genie is out of the bottle in terms of best ball tournament drafters utilizing stacks hoping to hit the jackpot combination in the money-maker playoff rounds. While much of the conversation on stacking has been largely intuition and feel-based, the RotoViz Stack Analysis and Stack Explorer provides objective data to examine how stacks have historically fared in best ball leagues. Best Ball’s Most Popular…...

Earlier this spring, Dave Caban and the powers that be at RotoViz were generous enough to give me a platform to host a weekly best ball live stream. For those that haven’t checked it out, you can tune into Roster Locked: A Best Ball Show, live on RotoViz’s YouTube channel. Shows generally air every Saturday (occasionally Friday) night around 7:00 PM EST or later. This…...

Quarterbacks are being drafted earlier than ever, making it essential we do our homework at the position. In a study I did last June, I found that quarterbacks generally score more points when they are favored. Specifically, they perform best when they are slight favorites (3.5 to 6.5 points), followed by clear favorites (-7 or better), then in toss-ups (-3 to +3), as slight underdogs…...

Shawn Siegele breaks down all 20 rounds of the 2021 MFL10 of Death and takes you behind the scenes with the Roster Construction Explorer. The MFL10 of Death VIII lived up to its name in 2021. Here’s an example: In normal leagues, 43 running backs and 50 wide receivers are going in the first 10 rounds. Our split was 36/56. That’s much more efficient drafting…...

With the popularity of best ball tournaments on Underdog Best Ball Mania, DraftKings Millionaire and Play Action, FFPC Best Ball Tournament, and Drafters Best Ball Championship, game theory has overtaken the best ball world. Best Ball drafters are preoccupied with their favorite team stacks, game stacking opposing offenses in the fantasy playoffs, and taking on hyper- versus anti- fragile roster constructions. It’s important to consider…...

When it comes to tight ends in fantasy football, the accepted wisdom is that you either take them early in drafts, or you take them late. In 2021, taking one early would likely mean spending a first-round pick on Travis Kelce, or landing George Kittle in the second. Or perhaps you really keep your powder dry and wait until round three to land Darren Waller…....