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Swimming with Sharks: 7 Players Who Went Well Ahead of ADP in a RotoViz Best Ball Mock Draft

The RotoViz team recently gathered at HQ to partake in an FFPC-settings best ball draft. The draft order was as follows: Shawn Siegele Sam Wallace Jeff Matson Jack Miller Devin McIntyre Dave Caban Blair Andrews Stefan Lako Madison Parkhill Michael Dubner Mike Beers John Keenan I normally don’t play on FFPC, so this was a fun experience for me to branch out and experience a…...

3 Players RotoViz Rankers Are Higher On Than FFPC Drafters: NFC West

Over the past few weeks, Neil Dutton and I have been identifying three players that RotoViz rankers are currently higher on than FFPC Drafters. 3 Players RotoViz Rankers are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: AFC East 3 Players RotoViz Rankers are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: NFC East 3 Players RotoViz Rankers are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: AFC South 3 Players RotoViz Rankers are…...

3 Receivers to Target at the End of Your Draft Who Could Vault into Your Starting Lineup

Fantasy owners are continually trying to find the next value. We love to find players who we think have a higher perceived value than their current price suggests. While I have taken a different approach in the past and have focused on players I think you should “buy high” on, sometimes the value for individual players is too great to ignore. As you prepare for…...

Attainable 3-Player Stacks For Your Best Ball 10 Drafts

Stacking players from the same team is a long-standing tradition in fantasy football. But how do we view truly stacking a team as opposed to pairing one player from a team with another? Vlad Sedler pointed this out in a recent tweet, which got my wheels turning. Not to be 'that guy' but: A QB-WR on your fantasy team from the same NFL team is…...

3 Players RotoViz Rankers Are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: AFC South

Zachary Krueger and I have been going division by division to find players that RotoViz rankers are higher on than FFPC drafters. You can find the previous three articles here: 3 Players RotoViz Rankers Are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: AFC East 3 Players RotoViz Rankers Are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: NFC East 3 Players RotoViz Rankers are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: NFC South It’s…...

3 Players RotoViz Rankers Are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: NFC South

Neil Dutton and I have been going division by division to find players that RotoViz rankers are higher on than FFPC drafters. The previous two articles are here: 3 Players RotoViz Rankers Are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: AFC East 3 Players RotoViz Rankers Are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: NFC East Today we turn our attention to the NFC South. Here are three players…...

What Is the Best Month to Enter The Drafters Best Ball Championship to Maximize Fantasy Points?

With Drafters offering a Best Ball Championship, Dubner looks to gain an edge by looking at the best month to enter the tournament for maximizing points. Drafters launched their Best Ball Championship on July 3. Within three days, over 1,700 owners have already taken their shot at the $25K prize pool. In a tournament with such a top-heavy prize pool (40% of the prizes going…...

These 3 Backup Running Backs Are an Injury Away From Massive Opportunity and Are Available at a Discount

Injuries suck. It’s one of the worst feelings to see a guy who’s carried you so far throughout the season, a player you might have become a genuine fan of outside of fantasy, go down in brutal fashion. Todd Gurley’s injury late in 2018 cost thousands of fantasy players (including myself) a likely championship. David Johnson’s wrist injury in week 1 of 2017 ended many…...

Applying Lessons From Historical Best Ball Win Rates: 7 Running Backs with Intriguing Efficiency Profiles

Derrick Henry, Austin Ekeler, and Aaron Jones were historically efficient in 2019. They were just efficient in different ways. Ekeler had the most receiving Fantasy Points Over Expectation (reFPOE) among all RBs over the last two decades. Henry paced all RBs in rushing Fantasy Points Over Expectation (ruFPOE) last year – just edging out second-place Jones. They aren’t going to do that again. Fortunately, they…...

Tight End Is the New Running Back: How to Benefit from Injury Risk in the Scott Fish Bowl (and Elsewhere)

Last week I published an article recommending a TEx5 start to your Scott Fish Bowl drafts. This week we added SFBX scoring settings to the Win the Flex app, and it disagreed with my take in no uncertain terms. According to the Win the Flex numbers (using SFBX scoring and FFPC Superflex ADP), tight ends don’t become the best pick until about the eighth round…....

3 Quick Hacks Deliver Elite Win Rates in FFPC Best Ball

Shawn Siegele discusses a trio of key tactical insights from the Roster Construction Explorer that will help you dominate FFPC best ball leagues.  For those who listened to Mike Beers on our RotoViz Overtime best ball podcasts, you know a few tricks of the trade in FFPC leagues. Mike’s tools like the FFPC Command Center and the FFPC Dashboard provide all of the rankings and…...

3 Players RotoViz Rankers are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: NFC East

Recently, Neil Dutton examined 3 Players RotoViz Rankers are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters. Make sure to check out his piece if you haven’t yet. Over the next several weeks, Neil and I will be covering three players from each division, with him taking on the AFC as I focus on the NFC. This particular article looks into the NFC East. Most players within this division…...

Applying RotoViz Tools and Research to Yahoo! Best Ball

Similar to some other best ball formats, Yahoo! is a 20-round draft, with mostly standardized Half-PPR scoring, that requires us to start one QB, two RBs, three WRs, one TE, one flex, and one defense.  However, unlike other formats, Yahoo! pays out a weekly prize to the top-scoring team. Naturally, this decreases the amount of money left to reward the highest-placing teams at the end…...

3 Players RotoViz Rankers Are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters

There is still a fair amount of uncertainty as to whether we will actually get an NFL season in 2020. However, until higher powers tell us otherwise, the fantasy football world continues to assume that some action will take place on the gridirons of America this fall and winter. With this in mind, the folks over at the FFPC are still churning out the fantasy…...

The Win Rate Explorer Is Here and the Features Are Insane

Those who listened to Mike Beers on the Best Ball episodes of RotoViz Overtime knew something exciting was coming. It’s here, and it’s spectacular. Last Friday, Mike unveiled the Best Ball Win Rates Explorer and the features are insane. You can look at all of the individual player win rates for the last five years, but you can also do something much cooler. Instead of simply…...

Positive Regression From Frank Gore Purgatory: Buy Zack Moss in Best Ball Drafts

Frank Gore has been taking up backfield touches for well beyond what many would consider his “prime” years as his tour of the AFC East brings him to his third team in three seasons. He will be entering his age 37 season with the New York Jets after spending 2019 vulturing touches from a promising Bills backfield that eventually featured rookie running back Devin Singletary…....

Running Back Efficiency Is Overvalued, Except When It’s Not: A Simple Hack to Find League-Winning RB Targets In Every Part of the Draft

About a month ago, I wrote an article about the impact of efficiency on running back performance in the following year relative to market value. I separated RBs into different buckets (based on ADP, scoring, experience, etc.) and used their best ball win rate in Year N+1 to determine whether the public values efficiency correctly. Looking at all RBs, there isn’t much of a difference,…...

There Are Multiple Ways to Win in BestBall10s, But There’s One Glaring Path to Dominant Top-Six Finishes

In the Wide Receiver Lesson of the 2020 Best Ball Workshop, Shawn Siegele discusses the WRs tactics that make the difference between winning and losing. It’s not hyperbole to say WR is the key to generating elite top-six percentages. The numbers will shock you. The Best Ball Workshop has been a blast to write again this season, and it’s a testament to the fantastic intel…...

The Best Draft Picks For Best Ball: Rounds 5-8

NFL training camps are a little more than a month away, and fantasy football drafts are picking up steam. And what better way to hone your craft than Best Ball leagues – the draft-and-forget league that puts your draft skills to the test. Today, we will be looking at the best picks in Rounds 5-8 of Best Ball drafts. Check out my previous article for…...

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