Ben Gretch

Writer. Podcast host. Former and still occasional editor. Previous work at Rotoworld, Draft Sharks. Work cited at NFL.com, Washington Post. Probably a little too obsessed with fantasy football.

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7 Fantasy Trends We Learned from Beat Reporters in August

After 32 episodes in 46 days, Pat Kerrane and I recently wrapped up the RotoViz Radio Season Preview series where we interviewed a beat reporter from each team. Here are some of the most interesting and fantasy-relevant soundbites we heard…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Winning the Main Event – Eric Balkman & Gary Allen: RotoViz Radio, 31 Aug 2016

August 31, 2016: RotoViz Radio: A Fantasy Football Podcast (@RotoVizRadio), featuring a discussion of changing average draft positions, drafting strategies, and key players for the 2016 season. … Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Receiver Projections Using Air Yards – Josh Hermsmeyer (RotoViz): Numbers Game 67

Episode 67 (August 31, 2016): The sixty-seveth episode of The Numbers Game (@NumbersGamePod), an analytics-focused RotoViz Radio powered podcast…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Always Double Down on 14

Earlier today Teddy Bridgewater left Vikings practice with an apparently gruesome injury that will likely make him unavailable for the 2016 season. We really wish him the best in his return to play, so hopefully it’s not as serious as originally thought and he can make a full recovery…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log...

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Fantasy Golf: The Barclays Review

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Add Crockett Gillmore to the Growing List of Late-Round TE Targets for 2016

Last year, guys like Jordan Reed and Ben Watson were boons for drafters taking tight ends late, with Tyler Eifert and Delanie Walker also returning plenty of value in the middle rounds…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Using Air Yards Per Target and Machine Learning to Dominate Your 2016 Drafts

Last week Josh Hermsmeyer introduced to us air yards per target (aYPT), which aside from charting differences, is identical to Pro Football Focus’ aDOT. However, he was able to further break down receiving into its constituent components: air yards, whether the ball was caught or not, and if caught, the yards created after the catch…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this...

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4 Running Backs RotoViz Might be Overlooking

Using the Projection Machine, I recently projected all 32 teams and took a look at how my ranks compared to current ADP and the composite projections from the rest of the RotoViz crew…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Efficiency-Agnostic Quarterback Projections

This article is the first in a series of simple projections made by completely ignoring efficiency. Today we’ll discuss quarterbacks. Subsequent articles will cover running backs, wide receivers, and tight ends…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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3 Bounce Back Wide Receivers for 2016

In last week’s article, I used previous years’ ADP to pinpoint bounce back wide receivers. I noted that there were three reasons a WR saw his ADP drop: 1) an underwhelming year, 2) an injury that hampered their season, or 3) uncertainty with a scenario change. Here are three names that I am targeting in drafts, that fall into one or more of these categories: Randall Cobb, Jordan…...

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Every Call Mocker Made This Year In One List

Accountability is good, so in order to make it real easy, here’s all the calls I made in articles this year. Not all articles take stances or make clear calls, so if you see one not referenced below, that’s the reason…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Wide Receiver Risers – Time to Buy the Hype?

Using the Best Ball App to examine wide receiver risers. Should we still be buying? Tajae Sharpe & The Titans No, it’s not a new ensemble band. It’s just a team about which drafters are apparently conflicted. I talked about Kendall Wright and Sharpe in my look at WR fallers. But now Sharpe shows up as a riser, along with Rishard Matthews. So the big picture takeaway is…...

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2016’s Most Over and Undervalued TEs Based on Targets

When Fantasy Douche released his 2015 article about targets being the lifeblood of fantasy scoring, it shed light on something that we must all hold dear when figuring out who to draft. Opportunity is everything, yet time and time again we find players who are over and undervalued using this simple filter. Having already done that for wide receivers, my mission today is to uncover those…...

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Michael Crabtree Looks Mispriced

Michael Crabtree was a revelation in the Raiders offense last season, and he’s being drafted far too low this year. … Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Maxx Williams Could Be the Steal of Your Draft

Source: Benjamin Watson of Baltimore Ravens expected out for season after tearing Achilles: Watson, who was the Ravens’ first free-agent signing this offseason, suffered the injury when he tripped over his feet while running a route over the middle. He was carried off the field and couldn’t put any weight on his right leg…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View...

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5 Killer Landing Spots if the Browns End Up Trading Josh Gordon

The Cleveland Browns have been fielding calls from multiple teams interested in trading for wide receiver Josh Gordon, according to reports. Observers like Tony Grossi believe that the team may be engaging in a little fiction writing regarding this situation, and the team has been quite quick to say they are not looking to trade Gordon. While this may be true, and they are not actively looking…...

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Wide Receiver Fallers – Making Sense of the Preseason

The Best Ball ADP App has a neat feature that shows players whose ADP has risen, or fallen, the most over any given time frame. Are the risers now over priced? Are the fallers now bargains? Let’s start with wide receivers.   Dorial Green-Beckham & Nelson Agholor It’s been a rough offseason for both, and both are being punished at the polls. In redraft leagues…...

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Give Me Dak Over Bortles – Davis Mattek: RotoViz Report, 29 Aug 2016

August 29, 2016: The RotoViz Report: A RotoViz Radio News Show, covering the serious and mocking the ridiculous NFL news of the last week, featuring Ameer Abdullah, Eli Rogers, Michael Campanaro, Dak Prescott and more…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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7 Fantasy Trends We Learned from Beat Reporters in August

After 32 episodes in 46 days, Pat Kerrane and I recently wrapped up the RotoViz Radio Season Preview series where we interviewed a beat reporter from each team. Here are some of the most interesting and fantasy-relevant soundbites we heard…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Winning the Main Event – Eric Balkman & Gary Allen: RotoViz Radio, 31 Aug 2016

August 31, 2016: RotoViz Radio: A Fantasy Football Podcast (@RotoVizRadio), featuring a discussion of changing average draft positions, drafting strategies, and key players for the 2016 season. … Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Receiver Projections Using Air Yards – Josh Hermsmeyer (RotoViz): Numbers Game 67

Episode 67 (August 31, 2016): The sixty-seveth episode of The Numbers Game (@NumbersGamePod), an analytics-focused RotoViz Radio powered podcast…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Always Double Down on 14

Earlier today Teddy Bridgewater left Vikings practice with an apparently gruesome injury that will likely make him unavailable for the 2016 season. We really wish him the best in his return to play, so hopefully it’s not as serious as originally thought and he can make a full recovery…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log...

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Fantasy Golf: The Barclays Review

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Add Crockett Gillmore to the Growing List of Late-Round TE Targets for 2016

Last year, guys like Jordan Reed and Ben Watson were boons for drafters taking tight ends late, with Tyler Eifert and Delanie Walker also returning plenty of value in the middle rounds…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Using Air Yards Per Target and Machine Learning to Dominate Your 2016 Drafts

Last week Josh Hermsmeyer introduced to us air yards per target (aYPT), which aside from charting differences, is identical to Pro Football Focus’ aDOT. However, he was able to further break down receiving into its constituent components: air yards, whether the ball was caught or not, and if caught, the yards created after the catch…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this...

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4 Running Backs RotoViz Might be Overlooking

Using the Projection Machine, I recently projected all 32 teams and took a look at how my ranks compared to current ADP and the composite projections from the rest of the RotoViz crew…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Efficiency-Agnostic Quarterback Projections

This article is the first in a series of simple projections made by completely ignoring efficiency. Today we’ll discuss quarterbacks. Subsequent articles will cover running backs, wide receivers, and tight ends…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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3 Bounce Back Wide Receivers for 2016

In last week’s article, I used previous years’ ADP to pinpoint bounce back wide receivers. I noted that there were three reasons a WR saw his ADP drop: 1) an underwhelming year, 2) an injury that hampered their season, or 3) uncertainty with a scenario change. Here are three names that I am targeting in drafts, that fall into one or more of these categories: Randall Cobb, Jordan…...

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Every Call Mocker Made This Year In One List

Accountability is good, so in order to make it real easy, here’s all the calls I made in articles this year. Not all articles take stances or make clear calls, so if you see one not referenced below, that’s the reason…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Wide Receiver Risers – Time to Buy the Hype?

Using the Best Ball App to examine wide receiver risers. Should we still be buying? Tajae Sharpe & The Titans No, it’s not a new ensemble band. It’s just a team about which drafters are apparently conflicted. I talked about Kendall Wright and Sharpe in my look at WR fallers. But now Sharpe shows up as a riser, along with Rishard Matthews. So the big picture takeaway is…...

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2016’s Most Over and Undervalued TEs Based on Targets

When Fantasy Douche released his 2015 article about targets being the lifeblood of fantasy scoring, it shed light on something that we must all hold dear when figuring out who to draft. Opportunity is everything, yet time and time again we find players who are over and undervalued using this simple filter. Having already done that for wide receivers, my mission today is to uncover those…...

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Michael Crabtree Looks Mispriced

Michael Crabtree was a revelation in the Raiders offense last season, and he’s being drafted far too low this year. … Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Maxx Williams Could Be the Steal of Your Draft

Source: Benjamin Watson of Baltimore Ravens expected out for season after tearing Achilles: Watson, who was the Ravens’ first free-agent signing this offseason, suffered the injury when he tripped over his feet while running a route over the middle. He was carried off the field and couldn’t put any weight on his right leg…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View...

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5 Killer Landing Spots if the Browns End Up Trading Josh Gordon

The Cleveland Browns have been fielding calls from multiple teams interested in trading for wide receiver Josh Gordon, according to reports. Observers like Tony Grossi believe that the team may be engaging in a little fiction writing regarding this situation, and the team has been quite quick to say they are not looking to trade Gordon. While this may be true, and they are not actively looking…...

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Wide Receiver Fallers – Making Sense of the Preseason

The Best Ball ADP App has a neat feature that shows players whose ADP has risen, or fallen, the most over any given time frame. Are the risers now over priced? Are the fallers now bargains? Let’s start with wide receivers.   Dorial Green-Beckham & Nelson Agholor It’s been a rough offseason for both, and both are being punished at the polls. In redraft leagues…...

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Give Me Dak Over Bortles – Davis Mattek: RotoViz Report, 29 Aug 2016

August 29, 2016: The RotoViz Report: A RotoViz Radio News Show, covering the serious and mocking the ridiculous NFL news of the last week, featuring Ameer Abdullah, Eli Rogers, Michael Campanaro, Dak Prescott and more…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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7 Fantasy Trends We Learned from Beat Reporters in August

After 32 episodes in 46 days, Pat Kerrane and I recently wrapped up the RotoViz Radio Season Preview series where we interviewed a beat reporter from each team. Here are some of the most interesting and fantasy-relevant soundbites we heard…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Winning the Main Event – Eric Balkman & Gary Allen: RotoViz Radio, 31 Aug 2016

August 31, 2016: RotoViz Radio: A Fantasy Football Podcast (@RotoVizRadio), featuring a discussion of changing average draft positions, drafting strategies, and key players for the 2016 season. … Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Receiver Projections Using Air Yards – Josh Hermsmeyer (RotoViz): Numbers Game 67

Episode 67 (August 31, 2016): The sixty-seveth episode of The Numbers Game (@NumbersGamePod), an analytics-focused RotoViz Radio powered podcast…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Always Double Down on 14

Earlier today Teddy Bridgewater left Vikings practice with an apparently gruesome injury that will likely make him unavailable for the 2016 season. We really wish him the best in his return to play, so hopefully it’s not as serious as originally thought and he can make a full recovery…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log...

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Fantasy Golf: The Barclays Review

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Add Crockett Gillmore to the Growing List of Late-Round TE Targets for 2016

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Using Air Yards Per Target and Machine Learning to Dominate Your 2016 Drafts

Last week Josh Hermsmeyer introduced to us air yards per target (aYPT), which aside from charting differences, is identical to Pro Football Focus’ aDOT. However, he was able to further break down receiving into its constituent components: air yards, whether the ball was caught or not, and if caught, the yards created after the catch…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this...

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4 Running Backs RotoViz Might be Overlooking

Using the Projection Machine, I recently projected all 32 teams and took a look at how my ranks compared to current ADP and the composite projections from the rest of the RotoViz crew…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Efficiency-Agnostic Quarterback Projections

This article is the first in a series of simple projections made by completely ignoring efficiency. Today we’ll discuss quarterbacks. Subsequent articles will cover running backs, wide receivers, and tight ends…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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3 Bounce Back Wide Receivers for 2016

In last week’s article, I used previous years’ ADP to pinpoint bounce back wide receivers. I noted that there were three reasons a WR saw his ADP drop: 1) an underwhelming year, 2) an injury that hampered their season, or 3) uncertainty with a scenario change. Here are three names that I am targeting in drafts, that fall into one or more of these categories: Randall Cobb, Jordan…...

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Every Call Mocker Made This Year In One List

Accountability is good, so in order to make it real easy, here’s all the calls I made in articles this year. Not all articles take stances or make clear calls, so if you see one not referenced below, that’s the reason…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Wide Receiver Risers – Time to Buy the Hype?

Using the Best Ball App to examine wide receiver risers. Should we still be buying? Tajae Sharpe & The Titans No, it’s not a new ensemble band. It’s just a team about which drafters are apparently conflicted. I talked about Kendall Wright and Sharpe in my look at WR fallers. But now Sharpe shows up as a riser, along with Rishard Matthews. So the big picture takeaway is…...

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2016’s Most Over and Undervalued TEs Based on Targets

When Fantasy Douche released his 2015 article about targets being the lifeblood of fantasy scoring, it shed light on something that we must all hold dear when figuring out who to draft. Opportunity is everything, yet time and time again we find players who are over and undervalued using this simple filter. Having already done that for wide receivers, my mission today is to uncover those…...

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Michael Crabtree Looks Mispriced

Michael Crabtree was a revelation in the Raiders offense last season, and he’s being drafted far too low this year. … Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Maxx Williams Could Be the Steal of Your Draft

Source: Benjamin Watson of Baltimore Ravens expected out for season after tearing Achilles: Watson, who was the Ravens’ first free-agent signing this offseason, suffered the injury when he tripped over his feet while running a route over the middle. He was carried off the field and couldn’t put any weight on his right leg…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View...

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5 Killer Landing Spots if the Browns End Up Trading Josh Gordon

The Cleveland Browns have been fielding calls from multiple teams interested in trading for wide receiver Josh Gordon, according to reports. Observers like Tony Grossi believe that the team may be engaging in a little fiction writing regarding this situation, and the team has been quite quick to say they are not looking to trade Gordon. While this may be true, and they are not actively looking…...

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Wide Receiver Fallers – Making Sense of the Preseason

The Best Ball ADP App has a neat feature that shows players whose ADP has risen, or fallen, the most over any given time frame. Are the risers now over priced? Are the fallers now bargains? Let’s start with wide receivers.   Dorial Green-Beckham & Nelson Agholor It’s been a rough offseason for both, and both are being punished at the polls. In redraft leagues…...

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Give Me Dak Over Bortles – Davis Mattek: RotoViz Report, 29 Aug 2016

August 29, 2016: The RotoViz Report: A RotoViz Radio News Show, covering the serious and mocking the ridiculous NFL news of the last week, featuring Ameer Abdullah, Eli Rogers, Michael Campanaro, Dak Prescott and more…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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