Kevin Szafraniec

Full-time Cat Dad, Sneakerhead, Record Collector, LOTR Fanboy, and Jeopardy Enthusiast. Fantasy football writer and beatmaker in my free time. Follow me on X and Bluesky @thecatdadff

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2026 Wide Receiver Free Agency Preview: Is There Any Chance George Pickens Makes His Way Out of Dallas?

Kevin Szafraniec breaks down 2026’s impending free agent wide receiver class in addition to discussing a handful of other wideouts who could become available this offseason. Over the past decade, wide receiver has become the most coveted offensive position outside of quarterback. Eleven wideouts are currently signed to contracts that pay them a higher average annual salary than the NFL’s top-paid offensive tackle. Given the…...

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The Banana Stand: Ranking the Remaining Super Bowl Contenders in 6 Key Categories

Shawn Siegele breaks down all the remaining playoff teams for those participating in playoff contests or wanting to get a deeper feel for the reality tournament. This week’s exercise will be a bit different than last week’s contrarian takes. For the eight remaining teams, I’ve used the RotoViz tools, the deep trove of SIS data, and Blair’s matchup tool with a mix of regular and…...

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2026 Running Back Free Agency Preview: The Top End of the Class Certainly Isn’t Lacking in Star Power

Kevin Szafraniec breaks down 2026’s impending free agent running back class in addition to discussing a handful of other rushers who could become available this offseason. The devaluation of the running back position has been a running theme across the NFL for nearly a decade now. But with a lack of surefire high-end talent in this year’s draft class, teams may be forced to look…...

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The RotoViz Week in Review: When One Season Ends, Another One Begins

Kevin Szafraniec highlights some of the biggest NFL storylines of the week, as seen through the eyes of RotoViz’s staff and our industry-leading suite of tools. The 2026 RotoViz Rookie Draft Guide is now available for pre-order! Jam-packed with comprehensive player profiles, advanced stats, player comps, strategies, and rankings from the RotoViz staff, it is a must-have for every fantasy manager who wants to crush…...

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Week 18 Running Back Advanced Stats: Brashard Smith and Jaydon Blue Appear

We’re back with the running back advanced stats from Week 17. We’ve regularly examined the running back leaders (and laggards) in yards after contact and evasion rate to identify players and backfields to target or avoid. There’s more to running back fantasy points than the advanced stats, including their usage and efficiency, which provides important context, especially when in a committee. We’ll use the Advanced Stats Explorer and other…...

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Projections, Strategies, and Lineups for the FFPC Playoff Challenge: The Wrong Read, Playoff Edition

The week between the regular season and the playoffs is one of my favorite weeks of the year. It’s the week of the FFPC Playoff Challenge. The FFPC Playoff Challenge is a contest that is deceptive in its simplicity. There is basically only one rule: you can roster only one player from each NFL playoff team in filling out your 12-person lineup. There’s no salary…...

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2026 Quarterback Free Agency Preview: Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures

Kevin Szafraniec breaks down 2026’s impending free agent quarterback class in addition to discussing a handful of other signal callers who could become available this offseason. Quarterback is the most important position in professional sports. For NFL teams that don’t have a viable starting QB on their roster, the search to find one should always be their top priority. With the 2026 NFL draft class…...

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The Banana Stand: 7 Contrarian Options to Win $500,000 in the FFPC Playoff Contest

Shawn Siegele explores FFPC Playoff Contest strategy and breaks down his seven favorite contrarian options for winning $500,000. Crafting entries for the FFPC Playoff contest is one of my favorite thought experiments each year. The contest has $200 and $35 entry levels with $500,000 and $100,000 grand prizes. It’s a fun way to put some of those redraft, best ball, and dynasty winnings into action…...

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Week 18 Monday Review: 16 Actionable Insights From Fantasy’s Forgotten Week

Kevin Szafraniec discusses the biggest storylines of Week 18 with the help of RotoViz’s industry-leading suite of tools, most notably the Monday Review Tool. After spending a year immersed in fantasy football, it’s understandable that most fantasy managers want to take a break from the NFL in Week 18. Sure, there are always a few matchups with real-world playoff implications. But for the most part,…...

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The RotoViz Week in Review: Keep an Eye On This First-Year RotoViz Riser

Kevin Szafraniec highlights some of the biggest NFL storylines of the week, as seen through the eyes of RotoViz’s staff and our industry-leading suite of tools. Things were a bit lighter than normal on the site this week as we entered the fantasy offseason. But that didn’t mean that there was any shortage of amazing data for those of us who live and breathe fantasy…...

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Week 17 WR Advanced Stats: Has Christian Watson Established Himself as Green Bay’s Alpha WR?

Kevin Szafraniec utilizes RotoViz’s Advanced Stats Explorer to uncover hidden trends at the wide receiver position from the first 17 weeks of the 2025 NFL season. It is safe to say few people believed that Christian Watson was destined to return in the middle of the 2025 season and produce at a borderline WR1 level. Yet, here we are. After making his way off of…...

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Rookie Season Recap and Thoughts on the Near Future

Rookie RV writer Jesse Cohen recaps the results of his 2025 columns and shares a few thoughts going into 2026. Rookie Season Recap: Masked Profiles and Dynasty Dealbook Masked Profiles In my debut article for RotoViz, I leveraged the Advanced Stats Explorer to identify a group of buy-low targets with masked profiles. That cohort, which had an aggregate -176.1 FPOE in 2024, finished the 2025…...

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Week 17 Running Back Advanced Stats: Breece Hall, Zach Charbonnet, and Audric Estime

We’re back with the running back advanced stats from Week 17. We’ve regularly examined the running back leaders (and laggards) in yards after contact and evasion rate to identify players and backfields to target or avoid. There’s more to running back fantasy points than the advanced stats, including their usage and efficiency, which provides important context, especially when in a committee. We’ll use the Advanced Stats Explorer and…...

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Week 17 Monday Review: These 3 Games Provided a High Concentration of 2025 League Winners

Kevin Szafraniec discusses the biggest storylines of Week 17 with the help of RotoViz’s industry-leading suite of tools, most notably the Monday Review Tool. This past week’s slate of games provided us with a valuable reminder of why Week 17 correlation is important to keep in mind when assembling our rosters during draft season. It is true that correlation should be more of a point…...

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The RotoViz Week in Review: The Rookies Poised to Shape Week 17

Kevin Szafraniec highlights some of the biggest NFL storylines of the week, as seen through the eyes of RotoViz’s staff and our industry-leading suite of tools. The steady evolution NFL rookies often experience in their first season has made them a perennial hammer in the fantasy playoffs. While some fantasy managers choose to shy away from first-year players due to the time it can take…...

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Week 16 Running Back Advanced Stats: Ashton Jeanty and Tony Pollard Could Win Leagues

We’re back with the running back advanced stats from Week 16. We’ve regularly examined the running back leaders (and laggards) in yards after contact and evasion rate to identify players and backfields to target or avoid. There’s more to running back fantasy points than the advanced stats, including their usage and efficiency, which provides important context, especially when in a committee. We’ll use the Advanced Stats Explorer and…...

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Game-Level Similarity Projections and Weekly Rankings: The Wrong Read, Week 17

One of my favorite ways to prep for the upcoming week of football games is to use the GLSP tool. Those projections use sophisticated modeling techniques to find a range of outcomes, and as such they do a better job of capturing the inherent uncertainty of weekly projections than many other systems. But they aren’t perfect: they are blind to a few factors, such as…...

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James Cook’s Rushing Title Runs Through the League’s Only Stable Blocking Unit: Offensive Lines and Their Fantasy Impacts, Week 17

Last week featured almost entirely bad news on the injury front, particularly in the offensive trenches. The Bills were the only team in the league during Week 16 with five OL starters in the lineup who’ve played together since last season and qualify as incumbents. This continuity has catalyzed James Cook’s rushing title campaign, along with him just being an awesome running back. Disruptions to…...

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Week 16 WR Advanced Stats: Tetairoa McMillan Has Solidified Himself as 2025’s Top Rookie Wideout

Kevin Szafraniec utilizes RotoViz’s Advanced Stats Explorer to uncover hidden trends at the wide receiver position from the first 16 weeks of the 2025 NFL season. Following a strong 19.3-point performance against the Buccaneers in the fantasy semifinals, Tetairoa McMillan now finds himself on the cusp of being a top-12 fantasy WR as his rookie year nears its conclusion. It is also somewhat ironic that McMillan…...

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The Banana Stand: Start Your Week 17 Championship Run By Dominating on Christmas

Shawn Siegele breaks down the Christmas matchups as RotoViz managers look to bring home the title in Week 17. I hope your fantasy playoffs have gone well so far. It’s been a fun couple of weeks as the NFL has finally turned it on late in the season, bringing us the product we longed for all year. In FFPC developments, the Main Event teams are…...

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2026 Wide Receiver Free Agency Preview: Is There Any Chance George Pickens Makes His Way Out of Dallas?

Kevin Szafraniec breaks down 2026’s impending free agent wide receiver class in addition to discussing a handful of other wideouts who could become available this offseason. Over the past decade, wide receiver has become the most coveted offensive position outside of quarterback. Eleven wideouts are currently signed to contracts that pay them a higher average annual salary than the NFL’s top-paid offensive tackle. Given the…...

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The Banana Stand: Ranking the Remaining Super Bowl Contenders in 6 Key Categories

Shawn Siegele breaks down all the remaining playoff teams for those participating in playoff contests or wanting to get a deeper feel for the reality tournament. This week’s exercise will be a bit different than last week’s contrarian takes. For the eight remaining teams, I’ve used the RotoViz tools, the deep trove of SIS data, and Blair’s matchup tool with a mix of regular and…...

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2026 Running Back Free Agency Preview: The Top End of the Class Certainly Isn’t Lacking in Star Power

Kevin Szafraniec breaks down 2026’s impending free agent running back class in addition to discussing a handful of other rushers who could become available this offseason. The devaluation of the running back position has been a running theme across the NFL for nearly a decade now. But with a lack of surefire high-end talent in this year’s draft class, teams may be forced to look…...

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The RotoViz Week in Review: When One Season Ends, Another One Begins

Kevin Szafraniec highlights some of the biggest NFL storylines of the week, as seen through the eyes of RotoViz’s staff and our industry-leading suite of tools. The 2026 RotoViz Rookie Draft Guide is now available for pre-order! Jam-packed with comprehensive player profiles, advanced stats, player comps, strategies, and rankings from the RotoViz staff, it is a must-have for every fantasy manager who wants to crush…...

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Week 18 Running Back Advanced Stats: Brashard Smith and Jaydon Blue Appear

We’re back with the running back advanced stats from Week 17. We’ve regularly examined the running back leaders (and laggards) in yards after contact and evasion rate to identify players and backfields to target or avoid. There’s more to running back fantasy points than the advanced stats, including their usage and efficiency, which provides important context, especially when in a committee. We’ll use the Advanced Stats Explorer and other…...

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Projections, Strategies, and Lineups for the FFPC Playoff Challenge: The Wrong Read, Playoff Edition

The week between the regular season and the playoffs is one of my favorite weeks of the year. It’s the week of the FFPC Playoff Challenge. The FFPC Playoff Challenge is a contest that is deceptive in its simplicity. There is basically only one rule: you can roster only one player from each NFL playoff team in filling out your 12-person lineup. There’s no salary…...

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2026 Quarterback Free Agency Preview: Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures

Kevin Szafraniec breaks down 2026’s impending free agent quarterback class in addition to discussing a handful of other signal callers who could become available this offseason. Quarterback is the most important position in professional sports. For NFL teams that don’t have a viable starting QB on their roster, the search to find one should always be their top priority. With the 2026 NFL draft class…...

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The Banana Stand: 7 Contrarian Options to Win $500,000 in the FFPC Playoff Contest

Shawn Siegele explores FFPC Playoff Contest strategy and breaks down his seven favorite contrarian options for winning $500,000. Crafting entries for the FFPC Playoff contest is one of my favorite thought experiments each year. The contest has $200 and $35 entry levels with $500,000 and $100,000 grand prizes. It’s a fun way to put some of those redraft, best ball, and dynasty winnings into action…...

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Week 18 Monday Review: 16 Actionable Insights From Fantasy’s Forgotten Week

Kevin Szafraniec discusses the biggest storylines of Week 18 with the help of RotoViz’s industry-leading suite of tools, most notably the Monday Review Tool. After spending a year immersed in fantasy football, it’s understandable that most fantasy managers want to take a break from the NFL in Week 18. Sure, there are always a few matchups with real-world playoff implications. But for the most part,…...

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The RotoViz Week in Review: Keep an Eye On This First-Year RotoViz Riser

Kevin Szafraniec highlights some of the biggest NFL storylines of the week, as seen through the eyes of RotoViz’s staff and our industry-leading suite of tools. Things were a bit lighter than normal on the site this week as we entered the fantasy offseason. But that didn’t mean that there was any shortage of amazing data for those of us who live and breathe fantasy…...

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Week 17 WR Advanced Stats: Has Christian Watson Established Himself as Green Bay’s Alpha WR?

Kevin Szafraniec utilizes RotoViz’s Advanced Stats Explorer to uncover hidden trends at the wide receiver position from the first 17 weeks of the 2025 NFL season. It is safe to say few people believed that Christian Watson was destined to return in the middle of the 2025 season and produce at a borderline WR1 level. Yet, here we are. After making his way off of…...

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Rookie Season Recap and Thoughts on the Near Future

Rookie RV writer Jesse Cohen recaps the results of his 2025 columns and shares a few thoughts going into 2026. Rookie Season Recap: Masked Profiles and Dynasty Dealbook Masked Profiles In my debut article for RotoViz, I leveraged the Advanced Stats Explorer to identify a group of buy-low targets with masked profiles. That cohort, which had an aggregate -176.1 FPOE in 2024, finished the 2025…...

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Week 17 Running Back Advanced Stats: Breece Hall, Zach Charbonnet, and Audric Estime

We’re back with the running back advanced stats from Week 17. We’ve regularly examined the running back leaders (and laggards) in yards after contact and evasion rate to identify players and backfields to target or avoid. There’s more to running back fantasy points than the advanced stats, including their usage and efficiency, which provides important context, especially when in a committee. We’ll use the Advanced Stats Explorer and…...

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Week 17 Monday Review: These 3 Games Provided a High Concentration of 2025 League Winners

Kevin Szafraniec discusses the biggest storylines of Week 17 with the help of RotoViz’s industry-leading suite of tools, most notably the Monday Review Tool. This past week’s slate of games provided us with a valuable reminder of why Week 17 correlation is important to keep in mind when assembling our rosters during draft season. It is true that correlation should be more of a point…...

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The RotoViz Week in Review: The Rookies Poised to Shape Week 17

Kevin Szafraniec highlights some of the biggest NFL storylines of the week, as seen through the eyes of RotoViz’s staff and our industry-leading suite of tools. The steady evolution NFL rookies often experience in their first season has made them a perennial hammer in the fantasy playoffs. While some fantasy managers choose to shy away from first-year players due to the time it can take…...

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Week 16 Running Back Advanced Stats: Ashton Jeanty and Tony Pollard Could Win Leagues

We’re back with the running back advanced stats from Week 16. We’ve regularly examined the running back leaders (and laggards) in yards after contact and evasion rate to identify players and backfields to target or avoid. There’s more to running back fantasy points than the advanced stats, including their usage and efficiency, which provides important context, especially when in a committee. We’ll use the Advanced Stats Explorer and…...

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Game-Level Similarity Projections and Weekly Rankings: The Wrong Read, Week 17

One of my favorite ways to prep for the upcoming week of football games is to use the GLSP tool. Those projections use sophisticated modeling techniques to find a range of outcomes, and as such they do a better job of capturing the inherent uncertainty of weekly projections than many other systems. But they aren’t perfect: they are blind to a few factors, such as…...

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James Cook’s Rushing Title Runs Through the League’s Only Stable Blocking Unit: Offensive Lines and Their Fantasy Impacts, Week 17

Last week featured almost entirely bad news on the injury front, particularly in the offensive trenches. The Bills were the only team in the league during Week 16 with five OL starters in the lineup who’ve played together since last season and qualify as incumbents. This continuity has catalyzed James Cook’s rushing title campaign, along with him just being an awesome running back. Disruptions to…...

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Week 16 WR Advanced Stats: Tetairoa McMillan Has Solidified Himself as 2025’s Top Rookie Wideout

Kevin Szafraniec utilizes RotoViz’s Advanced Stats Explorer to uncover hidden trends at the wide receiver position from the first 16 weeks of the 2025 NFL season. Following a strong 19.3-point performance against the Buccaneers in the fantasy semifinals, Tetairoa McMillan now finds himself on the cusp of being a top-12 fantasy WR as his rookie year nears its conclusion. It is also somewhat ironic that McMillan…...

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The Banana Stand: Start Your Week 17 Championship Run By Dominating on Christmas

Shawn Siegele breaks down the Christmas matchups as RotoViz managers look to bring home the title in Week 17. I hope your fantasy playoffs have gone well so far. It’s been a fun couple of weeks as the NFL has finally turned it on late in the season, bringing us the product we longed for all year. In FFPC developments, the Main Event teams are…...

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2026 Wide Receiver Free Agency Preview: Is There Any Chance George Pickens Makes His Way Out of Dallas?

Kevin Szafraniec breaks down 2026’s impending free agent wide receiver class in addition to discussing a handful of other wideouts who could become available this offseason. Over the past decade, wide receiver has become the most coveted offensive position outside of quarterback. Eleven wideouts are currently signed to contracts that pay them a higher average annual salary than the NFL’s top-paid offensive tackle. Given the…...

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The Banana Stand: Ranking the Remaining Super Bowl Contenders in 6 Key Categories

Shawn Siegele breaks down all the remaining playoff teams for those participating in playoff contests or wanting to get a deeper feel for the reality tournament. This week’s exercise will be a bit different than last week’s contrarian takes. For the eight remaining teams, I’ve used the RotoViz tools, the deep trove of SIS data, and Blair’s matchup tool with a mix of regular and…...

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2026 Running Back Free Agency Preview: The Top End of the Class Certainly Isn’t Lacking in Star Power

Kevin Szafraniec breaks down 2026’s impending free agent running back class in addition to discussing a handful of other rushers who could become available this offseason. The devaluation of the running back position has been a running theme across the NFL for nearly a decade now. But with a lack of surefire high-end talent in this year’s draft class, teams may be forced to look…...

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The RotoViz Week in Review: When One Season Ends, Another One Begins

Kevin Szafraniec highlights some of the biggest NFL storylines of the week, as seen through the eyes of RotoViz’s staff and our industry-leading suite of tools. The 2026 RotoViz Rookie Draft Guide is now available for pre-order! Jam-packed with comprehensive player profiles, advanced stats, player comps, strategies, and rankings from the RotoViz staff, it is a must-have for every fantasy manager who wants to crush…...

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Week 18 Running Back Advanced Stats: Brashard Smith and Jaydon Blue Appear

We’re back with the running back advanced stats from Week 17. We’ve regularly examined the running back leaders (and laggards) in yards after contact and evasion rate to identify players and backfields to target or avoid. There’s more to running back fantasy points than the advanced stats, including their usage and efficiency, which provides important context, especially when in a committee. We’ll use the Advanced Stats Explorer and other…...

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Projections, Strategies, and Lineups for the FFPC Playoff Challenge: The Wrong Read, Playoff Edition

The week between the regular season and the playoffs is one of my favorite weeks of the year. It’s the week of the FFPC Playoff Challenge. The FFPC Playoff Challenge is a contest that is deceptive in its simplicity. There is basically only one rule: you can roster only one player from each NFL playoff team in filling out your 12-person lineup. There’s no salary…...

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2026 Quarterback Free Agency Preview: Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures

Kevin Szafraniec breaks down 2026’s impending free agent quarterback class in addition to discussing a handful of other signal callers who could become available this offseason. Quarterback is the most important position in professional sports. For NFL teams that don’t have a viable starting QB on their roster, the search to find one should always be their top priority. With the 2026 NFL draft class…...

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The Banana Stand: 7 Contrarian Options to Win $500,000 in the FFPC Playoff Contest

Shawn Siegele explores FFPC Playoff Contest strategy and breaks down his seven favorite contrarian options for winning $500,000. Crafting entries for the FFPC Playoff contest is one of my favorite thought experiments each year. The contest has $200 and $35 entry levels with $500,000 and $100,000 grand prizes. It’s a fun way to put some of those redraft, best ball, and dynasty winnings into action…...

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Week 18 Monday Review: 16 Actionable Insights From Fantasy’s Forgotten Week

Kevin Szafraniec discusses the biggest storylines of Week 18 with the help of RotoViz’s industry-leading suite of tools, most notably the Monday Review Tool. After spending a year immersed in fantasy football, it’s understandable that most fantasy managers want to take a break from the NFL in Week 18. Sure, there are always a few matchups with real-world playoff implications. But for the most part,…...

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The RotoViz Week in Review: Keep an Eye On This First-Year RotoViz Riser

Kevin Szafraniec highlights some of the biggest NFL storylines of the week, as seen through the eyes of RotoViz’s staff and our industry-leading suite of tools. Things were a bit lighter than normal on the site this week as we entered the fantasy offseason. But that didn’t mean that there was any shortage of amazing data for those of us who live and breathe fantasy…...

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Week 17 WR Advanced Stats: Has Christian Watson Established Himself as Green Bay’s Alpha WR?

Kevin Szafraniec utilizes RotoViz’s Advanced Stats Explorer to uncover hidden trends at the wide receiver position from the first 17 weeks of the 2025 NFL season. It is safe to say few people believed that Christian Watson was destined to return in the middle of the 2025 season and produce at a borderline WR1 level. Yet, here we are. After making his way off of…...

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Rookie Season Recap and Thoughts on the Near Future

Rookie RV writer Jesse Cohen recaps the results of his 2025 columns and shares a few thoughts going into 2026. Rookie Season Recap: Masked Profiles and Dynasty Dealbook Masked Profiles In my debut article for RotoViz, I leveraged the Advanced Stats Explorer to identify a group of buy-low targets with masked profiles. That cohort, which had an aggregate -176.1 FPOE in 2024, finished the 2025…...

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Week 17 Running Back Advanced Stats: Breece Hall, Zach Charbonnet, and Audric Estime

We’re back with the running back advanced stats from Week 17. We’ve regularly examined the running back leaders (and laggards) in yards after contact and evasion rate to identify players and backfields to target or avoid. There’s more to running back fantasy points than the advanced stats, including their usage and efficiency, which provides important context, especially when in a committee. We’ll use the Advanced Stats Explorer and…...

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Week 17 Monday Review: These 3 Games Provided a High Concentration of 2025 League Winners

Kevin Szafraniec discusses the biggest storylines of Week 17 with the help of RotoViz’s industry-leading suite of tools, most notably the Monday Review Tool. This past week’s slate of games provided us with a valuable reminder of why Week 17 correlation is important to keep in mind when assembling our rosters during draft season. It is true that correlation should be more of a point…...

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The RotoViz Week in Review: The Rookies Poised to Shape Week 17

Kevin Szafraniec highlights some of the biggest NFL storylines of the week, as seen through the eyes of RotoViz’s staff and our industry-leading suite of tools. The steady evolution NFL rookies often experience in their first season has made them a perennial hammer in the fantasy playoffs. While some fantasy managers choose to shy away from first-year players due to the time it can take…...

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Week 16 Running Back Advanced Stats: Ashton Jeanty and Tony Pollard Could Win Leagues

We’re back with the running back advanced stats from Week 16. We’ve regularly examined the running back leaders (and laggards) in yards after contact and evasion rate to identify players and backfields to target or avoid. There’s more to running back fantasy points than the advanced stats, including their usage and efficiency, which provides important context, especially when in a committee. We’ll use the Advanced Stats Explorer and…...

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Game-Level Similarity Projections and Weekly Rankings: The Wrong Read, Week 17

One of my favorite ways to prep for the upcoming week of football games is to use the GLSP tool. Those projections use sophisticated modeling techniques to find a range of outcomes, and as such they do a better job of capturing the inherent uncertainty of weekly projections than many other systems. But they aren’t perfect: they are blind to a few factors, such as…...

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James Cook’s Rushing Title Runs Through the League’s Only Stable Blocking Unit: Offensive Lines and Their Fantasy Impacts, Week 17

Last week featured almost entirely bad news on the injury front, particularly in the offensive trenches. The Bills were the only team in the league during Week 16 with five OL starters in the lineup who’ve played together since last season and qualify as incumbents. This continuity has catalyzed James Cook’s rushing title campaign, along with him just being an awesome running back. Disruptions to…...

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Week 16 WR Advanced Stats: Tetairoa McMillan Has Solidified Himself as 2025’s Top Rookie Wideout

Kevin Szafraniec utilizes RotoViz’s Advanced Stats Explorer to uncover hidden trends at the wide receiver position from the first 16 weeks of the 2025 NFL season. Following a strong 19.3-point performance against the Buccaneers in the fantasy semifinals, Tetairoa McMillan now finds himself on the cusp of being a top-12 fantasy WR as his rookie year nears its conclusion. It is also somewhat ironic that McMillan…...

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The Banana Stand: Start Your Week 17 Championship Run By Dominating on Christmas

Shawn Siegele breaks down the Christmas matchups as RotoViz managers look to bring home the title in Week 17. I hope your fantasy playoffs have gone well so far. It’s been a fun couple of weeks as the NFL has finally turned it on late in the season, bringing us the product we longed for all year. In FFPC developments, the Main Event teams are…...

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