Most fantasy analysis is devoted to sorting the order of players likely to have an immediate impact, but every year there are a handful of overlooked deep sleepers who emerge to fill a starting role in redraft. Last year, it was guys like Phillip Lindsay and James Conner at running back. Deep sleepers at WR are a little harder to find, but we did tell…...

At the invitation of former RotoViz star Ben Gretch, I recently participated in a CBS best ball mock with DRAFT settings. The draft was a blast, as you would expect with Ben, Heath Cummings, current RotoViz contributors like Mike Beers and T.J. Calkins, as well as former contributors and friends of the site like Davis Mattek and Josh ADHD. With such a star-studded cast of…...

Most fantasy analysis is devoted to sorting the order of players likely to have an immediate impact, but every year there are a handful of overlooked deep sleepers who emerge to fill a starting role in redraft. Last year, it was guys like Phillip Lindsay and James Conner at running back. Deep sleepers at WR are a little harder to find, but we did tell…...

Last year, Lamar Jackson broke the record for rushing attempts in a season by a quarterback. He started seven games. After Joe Flacco went down with a hip injury, Jackson averaged the seventh-most fantasy points per game among quarterbacks. He also averaged the ninth-most rushing attempts per game, 10th-most rushing yards per game, and 12th-most rushing fantasy points per game in the entire NFL over…...

Michael Dubner looks at how we can use the Zero RB fantasy football draft strategy in the NFL DRAFT Best Ball Championship tournament.  It’s been nearly six years since RotoViz’s Shawn Siegele penned the ground-breaking article “Zero RB, Antifragility, and the Myth of Value Based Drafting.” Despite the re-emergence of workhorse RBs, Zero RB is still thriving. While Zero RB may be effective in traditional…...

Most fantasy analysis is devoted to sorting the order of players likely to have an immediate impact, but every year there are a handful of overlooked deep sleepers who emerge to fill a starting role in redraft. Last year, it was guys like Phillip Lindsay and James Conner at running back. Deep sleepers at WR are a little harder to find, but we did tell…...

Most fantasy analysis is devoted to sorting the order of players likely to have an immediate impact, but every year there are a handful of overlooked deep sleepers who emerge to fill a starting role in redraft. Last year, it was guys like Phillip Lindsay and James Conner at running back. Deep sleepers at WR are a little harder to find, but we did tell…...

The bulk of fantasy analysis is devoted to sorting the order of players likely to have a prompt impact, but every year there are a handful of overlooked deep sleepers who emerge to fill a starting role in redraft. Last year, it was guys like Phillip Lindsay and James Conner at running back. Deep sleepers at WR are a little harder to find, but we…...

I’m a dented can kind of man — if I can get the same product for cheaper and spend the savings elsewhere, I’m in. That’s the concept behind our “Why Buy?” series, which is inspired by Fantasy Douche’s Getting Something for Nothing article penned back in 2013. Whatever you want to call it — arbitrage, discount shopping, or simply fading overpriced players — there’s no…...

There are certain people who, when they tweet something, it should be noted well. Jeremy Hardt, the former host of the RotoViz Mailbag show, is in my honest opinion, one such person. It was a tweet about his erstwhile show that caught my eye this week. If I were to write a puff piece, it’d be all about the Tenn Titans despite the slow historical…...

It’s here. Dread it. Run from it. It still arrives. Of course, I am talking about the Tight End Renaissance (as some have called it). For years, the tight end position has been dominated by one or two names at the top. Jimmy Graham, Rob Gronkowski, Travis Kelce, the like. That changed last year. George Kittle broke the wall, finishing as the TE3 in PPR…...

There’s EV to be gained by reading between the ADPs in fantasy football. Last week, we used a gap methodology created by Charlie Kleinheksel to identify some of the best running back values for 2019. Check out my most recent piece for a look at the RB buckets generated from using that methodology in 2019. The takeaway is that we want to be targeting S2…...

A couple of days ago we used the Roster Construction Explorer to find the best time to use Zero RB in best ball drafts. As our level of information changes, it can have an impact on some of our draft strategies. Zero RB is one such approach. It’s been dominant during one half of draft season and flutters out of bounds like a Brady Quinn…...

To this point in the Best Ball Workshop, we’ve broken down the key tactics at every position, looked at the player selections that best fit dominant strategies, and synthesized our analysis with 7 Hacks to Win Your BestBall10s. Today, we dive into the calendar and look at whether some approaches work better at different times of the year. One of the many terrific features of…...

If you’re a long-time reader of RotoViz, you’re very familiar with the Zero-running-back draft strategy. In short, finding high upside RBs at a low price while stockpiling proven receivers in the early rounds is the main goal. And with his position on the depth chart and a late-round average draft position, Ito Smith is a great target. As a Prospect Several Rotoviz writers identified Smith…...

We previously found that it may be best to wait until August to enter the NFL DRAFT Best Ball Championship, but there are some benefits to drafting at the beginning of the offseason. Teams that draft in August tend to post higher average scores. However, teams that draft earlier in the offseason can take advantage of facing opponents with lower scores, which may help you get…...

There’s EV to be gained by reading between the ADPs in fantasy football. In this piece, I’ll be following up on some work done by RotoViz O.G. Charlie Kleinheksel in recent years which uses gaps in same-team RBs to identify both expensive fades and late-round buys at the position. He first explored the idea of using ADP to sort RBs into four types back in…...

Over the course of 11 lessons in the Best Ball Workshop, we examined the key tactics at every position and used the Fanball Roster Construction Explorer to locate exploitable opportunities in all areas of your draft. Today, we’ll look at seven of the most important takeaways from the workshops. For readers who have scoured the lessons in detail, this blueprint will help you synthesize those…...

The fantasy football sphere offers a lot of excellent team evaluation tools. These applications do a good job at what they’re designed to do – tell you if you’ve addressed the various positions with players projected to score well by experts. This obviously has value. If you select expert-favored players at a value to ADP, your team is unlikely to finish at the bottom of…...