John Lapinski

Lead Writer at RotoViz with a focus on Dynasty and Best Ball leagues. Father, Giants fan, and Pork Roll aficionado.

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News or Noise? Where There’s “Smokey,” There’s Fire

As fantasy players, we spend the offseason under a constant barrage of news. Under assault from stories, anecdotes, rumors, soundbites, coachspeak, and hot takes, it’s difficult for even the most diligent analyst to sort out the useful information from the meaningless noise for every player. In this series, I’ll take a look at some recent news items and try to determine if they’re meaningful, or…...

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Injury Impact: Sterling Shepard and Will Fuller

No one wants to go to work and be bored, but team medical staff probably hope and wish for quiet days at the office on the whole. Sadly, this was not the case for the trainers for the New York Giants and Houston Texans on Wednesday. Both teams saw injuries to wide receivers they drafted in 2016, with the Giants Sterling Shepard suffering a “rolled…...

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25 Writers Vote for the 2017 Carry Leader – Part 1

Twenty-five RotoViz scribes voted for the 2017 carry leader and offered explanations for their votes. While fewer RBs received first-place votes than during our WR Target Series, we had much more disagreement among those players. Antonio Brown and Odell Beckham were not left off of any ballots in the WR voting, but every RB was absent from at least five ballots…. Membership Required You must...

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Golden Tate is Fraudulent Volume Bait

As we inch closer to the 2017 season, Golden Tate is being drafted in the middle of the fourth round as the 23rd wide receiver off the board according to current My Fantasy League ADP…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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The Hurry Up: Chester Rogers and the Colts WR Depth Chart

The Hurry-Up keeps you up-to-date on the latest news through the filter of RotoViz tools and related content. When Kamar Aiken signed with the Colts in March, fantasy analysts thought he would compete with Phillip Dorsett for the team’s third wide receiver spot — or even Donte Moncrief for the second spot. But second-year wideout Chester Rogers has received positive buzz throughout the offseason, and it’s carrying over into training…...

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Why Buy Doug Baldwin When This WR is Cheaper?

Why buy a car for $20,000 when you can buy the same car with a crappy paint job for half the price? That, in a crude nutshell, is one way of looking at arbitrage, a concept the Fantasy Douche first applied to fantasy football several years ago…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Buy Dalvin Cook Before It’s Too Late

One of the most puzzling things so far this offseason is Dalvin Cook’s ADP in comparison to his rookie peers…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Better Start/Sit Decisions: Nathan Braun (fantasymath), 2 Aug 2017

Aug 2, 2017: The Numbers Game (@NumbersGamePod), a sports analytics RotoViz Radio podcast. If you’re a listener of the show who hasn’t subscribed yet to RotoViz, you can get a special 30% discount through the podcast. Host: Nick Giffen (@RotoDoc): Editor, Top-Five NASCAR DFS player, Math Host: Josh Hermsmeyer (@friscojosh): Contributor to RotoViz, inventor of WR Air Yards SPONSOR Fantasy Football Players Championship. Premium leagues start at…...

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MFL10 ADP Snapshot – The Fallers

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends…except this one will. MFL10s are drawing to a close, so if Best Ball is your bag you better fire up those drafts. Here is our weekly look at players who have experienced recent drops in popularity. Included are a brace of Panthers receivers, two rookie running backs, and a recently acquired tight end who may…...

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3 Players To Avoid If You Want To Win Your PPR League

When attempting to win your fantasy football league(s), it’s always important to find value in your selections. In this article, I will identify three players who are being drafted earlier than they should be in PPR leagues. In other words, they are investments that are unlikely to return value…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log...

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3 Candidates To Be This Year’s Kenny Britt

3 Candidates is a series that identifies key traits of the best and worst picks of 2016 and which players could be this year’s version of those players. … Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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2017 Projections: A.J. Green and the Cincinnati Bengals

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RB Countdown: No. 33 Eddie Lacy

What can you expect from Seattle Seahawks running back Eddie Lacy in 2017?… Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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RotoViz/TwoQBs Superflex Mock Draft – Round 6

Whether you’re an experienced 2QB drafter or a novice, get some additional help from the staff at TwoQBs.com. The 2017 2QB Draft Guide is created with 2QB/superflex players in mind and is an invaluable tool to help dominate your league. Use the coupon code “RotoViz” to get a 10% discount on the cover price. To show you what picking in a Superflex draft entails, members…...

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Is Ty Montgomery the “Full Threat”

Green Packers head coach Mike McCarthy called Green Bay Packers running back Ty Montgomery a “full threat” according to NFL Network. What does this mean for his fantasy prospects? NFL news happens every day of the year. The fictional character Gordon Gekko from the film Wall Street, famously portrayed by screen legend Michael Douglas, had a great quote that applies to fantasy football: “The most…...

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News or Noise? Where There’s “Smokey,” There’s Fire

As fantasy players, we spend the offseason under a constant barrage of news. Under assault from stories, anecdotes, rumors, soundbites, coachspeak, and hot takes, it’s difficult for even the most diligent analyst to sort out the useful information from the meaningless noise for every player. In this series, I’ll take a look at some recent news items and try to determine if they’re meaningful, or…...

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Injury Impact: Sterling Shepard and Will Fuller

No one wants to go to work and be bored, but team medical staff probably hope and wish for quiet days at the office on the whole. Sadly, this was not the case for the trainers for the New York Giants and Houston Texans on Wednesday. Both teams saw injuries to wide receivers they drafted in 2016, with the Giants Sterling Shepard suffering a “rolled…...

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25 Writers Vote for the 2017 Carry Leader – Part 1

Twenty-five RotoViz scribes voted for the 2017 carry leader and offered explanations for their votes. While fewer RBs received first-place votes than during our WR Target Series, we had much more disagreement among those players. Antonio Brown and Odell Beckham were not left off of any ballots in the WR voting, but every RB was absent from at least five ballots…. Membership Required You must...

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Golden Tate is Fraudulent Volume Bait

As we inch closer to the 2017 season, Golden Tate is being drafted in the middle of the fourth round as the 23rd wide receiver off the board according to current My Fantasy League ADP…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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The Hurry Up: Chester Rogers and the Colts WR Depth Chart

The Hurry-Up keeps you up-to-date on the latest news through the filter of RotoViz tools and related content. When Kamar Aiken signed with the Colts in March, fantasy analysts thought he would compete with Phillip Dorsett for the team’s third wide receiver spot — or even Donte Moncrief for the second spot. But second-year wideout Chester Rogers has received positive buzz throughout the offseason, and it’s carrying over into training…...

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Why Buy Doug Baldwin When This WR is Cheaper?

Why buy a car for $20,000 when you can buy the same car with a crappy paint job for half the price? That, in a crude nutshell, is one way of looking at arbitrage, a concept the Fantasy Douche first applied to fantasy football several years ago…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Buy Dalvin Cook Before It’s Too Late

One of the most puzzling things so far this offseason is Dalvin Cook’s ADP in comparison to his rookie peers…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Better Start/Sit Decisions: Nathan Braun (fantasymath), 2 Aug 2017

Aug 2, 2017: The Numbers Game (@NumbersGamePod), a sports analytics RotoViz Radio podcast. If you’re a listener of the show who hasn’t subscribed yet to RotoViz, you can get a special 30% discount through the podcast. Host: Nick Giffen (@RotoDoc): Editor, Top-Five NASCAR DFS player, Math Host: Josh Hermsmeyer (@friscojosh): Contributor to RotoViz, inventor of WR Air Yards SPONSOR Fantasy Football Players Championship. Premium leagues start at…...

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MFL10 ADP Snapshot – The Fallers

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends…except this one will. MFL10s are drawing to a close, so if Best Ball is your bag you better fire up those drafts. Here is our weekly look at players who have experienced recent drops in popularity. Included are a brace of Panthers receivers, two rookie running backs, and a recently acquired tight end who may…...

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3 Players To Avoid If You Want To Win Your PPR League

When attempting to win your fantasy football league(s), it’s always important to find value in your selections. In this article, I will identify three players who are being drafted earlier than they should be in PPR leagues. In other words, they are investments that are unlikely to return value…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log...

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3 Candidates To Be This Year’s Kenny Britt

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2017 Projections: A.J. Green and the Cincinnati Bengals

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RB Countdown: No. 33 Eddie Lacy

What can you expect from Seattle Seahawks running back Eddie Lacy in 2017?… Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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RotoViz/TwoQBs Superflex Mock Draft – Round 6

Whether you’re an experienced 2QB drafter or a novice, get some additional help from the staff at TwoQBs.com. The 2017 2QB Draft Guide is created with 2QB/superflex players in mind and is an invaluable tool to help dominate your league. Use the coupon code “RotoViz” to get a 10% discount on the cover price. To show you what picking in a Superflex draft entails, members…...

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DFS Contrarian

Is Ty Montgomery the “Full Threat”

Green Packers head coach Mike McCarthy called Green Bay Packers running back Ty Montgomery a “full threat” according to NFL Network. What does this mean for his fantasy prospects? NFL news happens every day of the year. The fictional character Gordon Gekko from the film Wall Street, famously portrayed by screen legend Michael Douglas, had a great quote that applies to fantasy football: “The most…...

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News or Noise? Where There’s “Smokey,” There’s Fire

As fantasy players, we spend the offseason under a constant barrage of news. Under assault from stories, anecdotes, rumors, soundbites, coachspeak, and hot takes, it’s difficult for even the most diligent analyst to sort out the useful information from the meaningless noise for every player. In this series, I’ll take a look at some recent news items and try to determine if they’re meaningful, or…...

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Injury Impact: Sterling Shepard and Will Fuller

No one wants to go to work and be bored, but team medical staff probably hope and wish for quiet days at the office on the whole. Sadly, this was not the case for the trainers for the New York Giants and Houston Texans on Wednesday. Both teams saw injuries to wide receivers they drafted in 2016, with the Giants Sterling Shepard suffering a “rolled…...

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25 Writers Vote for the 2017 Carry Leader – Part 1

Twenty-five RotoViz scribes voted for the 2017 carry leader and offered explanations for their votes. While fewer RBs received first-place votes than during our WR Target Series, we had much more disagreement among those players. Antonio Brown and Odell Beckham were not left off of any ballots in the WR voting, but every RB was absent from at least five ballots…. Membership Required You must...

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Golden Tate is Fraudulent Volume Bait

As we inch closer to the 2017 season, Golden Tate is being drafted in the middle of the fourth round as the 23rd wide receiver off the board according to current My Fantasy League ADP…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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The Hurry Up: Chester Rogers and the Colts WR Depth Chart

The Hurry-Up keeps you up-to-date on the latest news through the filter of RotoViz tools and related content. When Kamar Aiken signed with the Colts in March, fantasy analysts thought he would compete with Phillip Dorsett for the team’s third wide receiver spot — or even Donte Moncrief for the second spot. But second-year wideout Chester Rogers has received positive buzz throughout the offseason, and it’s carrying over into training…...

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Why Buy Doug Baldwin When This WR is Cheaper?

Why buy a car for $20,000 when you can buy the same car with a crappy paint job for half the price? That, in a crude nutshell, is one way of looking at arbitrage, a concept the Fantasy Douche first applied to fantasy football several years ago…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Buy Dalvin Cook Before It’s Too Late

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Better Start/Sit Decisions: Nathan Braun (fantasymath), 2 Aug 2017

Aug 2, 2017: The Numbers Game (@NumbersGamePod), a sports analytics RotoViz Radio podcast. If you’re a listener of the show who hasn’t subscribed yet to RotoViz, you can get a special 30% discount through the podcast. Host: Nick Giffen (@RotoDoc): Editor, Top-Five NASCAR DFS player, Math Host: Josh Hermsmeyer (@friscojosh): Contributor to RotoViz, inventor of WR Air Yards SPONSOR Fantasy Football Players Championship. Premium leagues start at…...

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MFL10 ADP Snapshot – The Fallers

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends…except this one will. MFL10s are drawing to a close, so if Best Ball is your bag you better fire up those drafts. Here is our weekly look at players who have experienced recent drops in popularity. Included are a brace of Panthers receivers, two rookie running backs, and a recently acquired tight end who may…...

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3 Players To Avoid If You Want To Win Your PPR League

When attempting to win your fantasy football league(s), it’s always important to find value in your selections. In this article, I will identify three players who are being drafted earlier than they should be in PPR leagues. In other words, they are investments that are unlikely to return value…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log...

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3 Candidates To Be This Year’s Kenny Britt

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2017 Projections: A.J. Green and the Cincinnati Bengals

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RB Countdown: No. 33 Eddie Lacy

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RotoViz/TwoQBs Superflex Mock Draft – Round 6

Whether you’re an experienced 2QB drafter or a novice, get some additional help from the staff at TwoQBs.com. The 2017 2QB Draft Guide is created with 2QB/superflex players in mind and is an invaluable tool to help dominate your league. Use the coupon code “RotoViz” to get a 10% discount on the cover price. To show you what picking in a Superflex draft entails, members…...

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Is Ty Montgomery the “Full Threat”

Green Packers head coach Mike McCarthy called Green Bay Packers running back Ty Montgomery a “full threat” according to NFL Network. What does this mean for his fantasy prospects? NFL news happens every day of the year. The fictional character Gordon Gekko from the film Wall Street, famously portrayed by screen legend Michael Douglas, had a great quote that applies to fantasy football: “The most…...

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