Blair Andrews

Managing Editor, Author of The Wrong Read, Occasional Fantasy Football League Winner. All opinions are someone else's.

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Just How Crazy Was 2020? Insights from the Win the Flex App and Strategies for 2021 Drafts

Drafting successfully means, at least in part, picking the right kinds of players and avoiding the wrong kinds. We provide a lot of guidance at RotoViz on who the right and wrong kind of players to draft are. Still, getting the player selection tactics down is only part of the solution for finding the game-changing win rates we know are possible. Shawn Siegele has detailed…...

Tyler Boyd Headlines the 5 Best Values in Early Best Ball Drafts

Shawn Siegele locates the five best values in early best ball drafts, including always overlooked star Tyler Boyd. In the Best Ball Workshop I’ve been showing you how to beat your FFPC Classic and Slim drafts in a wide variety of ways. The initial Superflex lesson provides a quick QB hack to boost your win rate above 10%. The PK lesson demonstrates how a couple of…...

A.J. Dillon Might Not Be the Next Derrick Henry, but His Comps Suggest We Haven’t Seen His Ceiling Yet

Last week, as part of the RotoViz Rookie Review Series, I took a look at Rams running back Cam Akers and some of his closest rookie comps according to the RotoViz Screener. For this week’s article, I take a look at yet another running back, but one who saw significantly less work than Akers did in 2020. The Green Bay Packers had a controversial rookie draft class. Coming off…...

2021 QB Range of Outcome Projections: Justin Herbert Is a Star

Dave Caban considers 2021 quarterback projections built by the RotoViz Range of Outcomes app. The Range of Outcomes app (ROO) is one of my favorite tools we have at RotoViz. No joke, I actually get butterflies in my stomach when I roll it forward each year and get a first glimpse of the results. Last year, I wrote an in-depth article that details what the…...

Best Ball Workshop: Playing DEF Correctly in FFPC Leagues Is Like Adding Another Star to Your Roster

Shawn Siegele shows you how to gain a big advantage in your FFPC Classic best ball league just by making some simple decisions on defense. The rhetoric around fantasy leagues increasingly focuses on hitting a high win-rate player early and trying to land a sleeper. Of course, this helps. And I’m (very) biased, but I think RotoViz is your leading source of those hits. Last…...

A Late Season Surge Has Drafters High on Cam Akers in 2021, but What Do His Comps Suggest?

The Rams drafted running back Cam Akers in the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft in hopes of replacing former stud Todd Gurley. Often viewed as a solid athlete whose production was capped by a poor supporting cast at Florida State, Akers entered his rookie season with a ceiling some thought was yet to be realized. A strong finish to the season that resulted in two playoff…...

Best Ball Workshop: This Roster Hack Provides FFPC Win Rates Equal to Owning Derrick Henry

Want your best ball teams to start with baked-in win rates equivalent to owning Derrick Henry in a record-setting season? Shawn Siegele uses the FFPC Roster Construction Explorer to show you how. Last year Henry rushed 378 times and averaged a career high 5.4 yards per carry. His elite combination of rushing volume and explosiveness produced the NFL’s fourth 2,000-yard rushing season of the last…...

You’re Probably Targeting Upside and Safety in the Wrong Parts of Your Draft … And Killing Your Best Ball Win Rates – The Wrong Read, No. 67

The previous Wrong Read looked at best ball win rates as a function of age and experience. The surprising finding is that at almost every position, younger and less experienced players underperform. Two factors combine to make this the case. First, the optionality profile of best ball leagues makes them less ideal for players with a wide range of outcomes than traditional redraft leagues. If…...

How We Used the FFPC Best Ball Command Center to Land 10 Big Values in the First 17 Rounds

Because of the fantastic tools at RotoViz and articles like those Sam Wallace highlighted yesterday, Shawn was able to turn a handful of FFPC Main Event teams into more than $10,000 last year. Today, he’ll demonstrate how to turn some of these tools to profit in your own leagues. In the previous edition of the Best Ball Workshop, we talked about using the RCE to…...

Risers and Fallers: FFPC ADPs That Could Be Poised to Move Post Free Agency

With FFPC best ball drafts well under way, Zachary Krueger takes a look at the FFPC Exposures and ADP tool to identify a few players who could be getting drafted at bargain prices and those we should avoid until later. With FFPC best ball lobbies having been open for a little over two weeks, it’s the perfect time to map out some plans for the 2021…...

Are Your Best Ball Teams Too Young? Age, Experience, Upside, and Optionality in Redraft and Best Ball – The Wrong Read, No. 66

Anyone who spends much time perusing this site will soon realize we tend to have a strong youth bias. We’re constantly searching for the next rookie sensation, and much of our dynasty advice comes down to selling your stars — especially at RB — while you can still get your leaguemates to pay elite-level prices for them. Nearly always, we advise trying to make your…...

2 Historically Efficient Second-Year RBs Have Seen Their Prices Skyrocket, but They’re Still Too Cheap

Zachary Krueger dives into the RotoViz Screener to look at two rookie running backs who rose to the top of historical efficiency metrics in 2020. Heading into this season, the 2020 rookie class carried some of the biggest buzz in recent history. Whether you were debating between Joe Burrow vs. Tua Tagovailoa, CeeDee Lamb vs. Justin Jefferson or Clyde Edwards-Helaire vs. Jonathan Taylor, the debates around these few players only scratched the surface of what was…...

Early FFPC Best Ball Drafts: Round 1 Looks a Lot Different in 2021

FFPC Best Ball drafts are live! Shawn Siegele talks strategy and discusses three key developments from the 2021 shakeup in first-round ADP. A late Nyheim Hines stat revision knocked our FFPC Main Event team from 29th to 31st and cost us a chunk of cash, but Blair Andrews and I are already reinvesting some of our profits on 2021 leagues. We’ll keep you updated on…...

A Historical Look at Konami Code QBs Says You Should Capitalize on Jalen Hurts Doubters in 2021

Every season, fantasy gamers look for the hidden upside players possess during draft season. In this article, Zachary Krueger takes a look Konami Code quarterbacks and how their expected points can predict fantasy success. In recent years, Konami Code quarterbacks have become a driving force of fantasy success. Taking a quick look at the top-12 quarterbacks in PPR from the 2020 season, it’s apparent that rushing…...

The 2020 Best Ball Win Rate Awards and 3 Key Takeaways to Help Us Crush Again in 2021

Shawn Siegele gives out best ball player awards and uses the best ball tools suite to help you understand why the lessons from the Best Ball Workshop crushed again in 2020. Best ball guru Mike Beers just updated the Roster Construction Explorers with 2020 data. Next to the culminating moments of a fantasy championship, this is my favorite moment of the fantasy season. Readers who…...

Going Green With the Best Ball Win Rate Explorer: 3 TEs to Target in the TE Window in BestBall10s

Over the last few weeks, Zachary Krueger has been breaking down players to target per the Positional Heat Map in the Best Ball Win Rate Explorer. The articles on quarterbacks, running backs, and wide receivers can be found below. This article, the fourth and final of the series, focuses on tight ends. Never a proponent of the early round tight end, there’s nothing better than…...

Life After Leonard: Analyzing Jacksonville’s Offense After Fournette’s Release

The Leonard Fournette era in Jacksonville has come to an end. The former fourth overall pick in 2017, drafted ahead of Christian McCaffrey, Dalvin Cook, and Alvin Kamara, just to name a few, was officially released this morning, ending a rocky tenure with the Jaguars. Although it had been rumored that Jacksonville wanted to move on from him, no one saw a release coming. The…...

Going Green With the Best Ball Win Rate Explorer: 3 WRs to Target in the WR Window in BestBall 10s

Over the last few weeks, Zachary Krueger has been breaking down players we should target per the Positional Heat Map in the Best Ball Win Rate Explorer. The articles on quarterbacks and running backs can be found below. This article, the third of the series, focuses on wide receivers.  With limited time left before the first game of the NFL season gets underway, it’s time…...

Just How Crazy Was 2020? Insights from the Win the Flex App and Strategies for 2021 Drafts

Drafting successfully means, at least in part, picking the right kinds of players and avoiding the wrong kinds. We provide a lot of guidance at RotoViz on who the right and wrong kind of players to draft are. Still, getting the player selection tactics down is only part of the solution for finding the game-changing win rates we know are possible. Shawn Siegele has detailed…...

Tyler Boyd Headlines the 5 Best Values in Early Best Ball Drafts

Shawn Siegele locates the five best values in early best ball drafts, including always overlooked star Tyler Boyd. In the Best Ball Workshop I’ve been showing you how to beat your FFPC Classic and Slim drafts in a wide variety of ways. The initial Superflex lesson provides a quick QB hack to boost your win rate above 10%. The PK lesson demonstrates how a couple of…...

A.J. Dillon Might Not Be the Next Derrick Henry, but His Comps Suggest We Haven’t Seen His Ceiling Yet

Last week, as part of the RotoViz Rookie Review Series, I took a look at Rams running back Cam Akers and some of his closest rookie comps according to the RotoViz Screener. For this week’s article, I take a look at yet another running back, but one who saw significantly less work than Akers did in 2020. The Green Bay Packers had a controversial rookie draft class. Coming off…...

2021 QB Range of Outcome Projections: Justin Herbert Is a Star

Dave Caban considers 2021 quarterback projections built by the RotoViz Range of Outcomes app. The Range of Outcomes app (ROO) is one of my favorite tools we have at RotoViz. No joke, I actually get butterflies in my stomach when I roll it forward each year and get a first glimpse of the results. Last year, I wrote an in-depth article that details what the…...

Best Ball Workshop: Playing DEF Correctly in FFPC Leagues Is Like Adding Another Star to Your Roster

Shawn Siegele shows you how to gain a big advantage in your FFPC Classic best ball league just by making some simple decisions on defense. The rhetoric around fantasy leagues increasingly focuses on hitting a high win-rate player early and trying to land a sleeper. Of course, this helps. And I’m (very) biased, but I think RotoViz is your leading source of those hits. Last…...

A Late Season Surge Has Drafters High on Cam Akers in 2021, but What Do His Comps Suggest?

The Rams drafted running back Cam Akers in the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft in hopes of replacing former stud Todd Gurley. Often viewed as a solid athlete whose production was capped by a poor supporting cast at Florida State, Akers entered his rookie season with a ceiling some thought was yet to be realized. A strong finish to the season that resulted in two playoff…...

Best Ball Workshop: This Roster Hack Provides FFPC Win Rates Equal to Owning Derrick Henry

Want your best ball teams to start with baked-in win rates equivalent to owning Derrick Henry in a record-setting season? Shawn Siegele uses the FFPC Roster Construction Explorer to show you how. Last year Henry rushed 378 times and averaged a career high 5.4 yards per carry. His elite combination of rushing volume and explosiveness produced the NFL’s fourth 2,000-yard rushing season of the last…...

You’re Probably Targeting Upside and Safety in the Wrong Parts of Your Draft … And Killing Your Best Ball Win Rates – The Wrong Read, No. 67

The previous Wrong Read looked at best ball win rates as a function of age and experience. The surprising finding is that at almost every position, younger and less experienced players underperform. Two factors combine to make this the case. First, the optionality profile of best ball leagues makes them less ideal for players with a wide range of outcomes than traditional redraft leagues. If…...

How We Used the FFPC Best Ball Command Center to Land 10 Big Values in the First 17 Rounds

Because of the fantastic tools at RotoViz and articles like those Sam Wallace highlighted yesterday, Shawn was able to turn a handful of FFPC Main Event teams into more than $10,000 last year. Today, he’ll demonstrate how to turn some of these tools to profit in your own leagues. In the previous edition of the Best Ball Workshop, we talked about using the RCE to…...

Risers and Fallers: FFPC ADPs That Could Be Poised to Move Post Free Agency

With FFPC best ball drafts well under way, Zachary Krueger takes a look at the FFPC Exposures and ADP tool to identify a few players who could be getting drafted at bargain prices and those we should avoid until later. With FFPC best ball lobbies having been open for a little over two weeks, it’s the perfect time to map out some plans for the 2021…...

Are Your Best Ball Teams Too Young? Age, Experience, Upside, and Optionality in Redraft and Best Ball – The Wrong Read, No. 66

Anyone who spends much time perusing this site will soon realize we tend to have a strong youth bias. We’re constantly searching for the next rookie sensation, and much of our dynasty advice comes down to selling your stars — especially at RB — while you can still get your leaguemates to pay elite-level prices for them. Nearly always, we advise trying to make your…...

2 Historically Efficient Second-Year RBs Have Seen Their Prices Skyrocket, but They’re Still Too Cheap

Zachary Krueger dives into the RotoViz Screener to look at two rookie running backs who rose to the top of historical efficiency metrics in 2020. Heading into this season, the 2020 rookie class carried some of the biggest buzz in recent history. Whether you were debating between Joe Burrow vs. Tua Tagovailoa, CeeDee Lamb vs. Justin Jefferson or Clyde Edwards-Helaire vs. Jonathan Taylor, the debates around these few players only scratched the surface of what was…...

Early FFPC Best Ball Drafts: Round 1 Looks a Lot Different in 2021

FFPC Best Ball drafts are live! Shawn Siegele talks strategy and discusses three key developments from the 2021 shakeup in first-round ADP. A late Nyheim Hines stat revision knocked our FFPC Main Event team from 29th to 31st and cost us a chunk of cash, but Blair Andrews and I are already reinvesting some of our profits on 2021 leagues. We’ll keep you updated on…...

A Historical Look at Konami Code QBs Says You Should Capitalize on Jalen Hurts Doubters in 2021

Every season, fantasy gamers look for the hidden upside players possess during draft season. In this article, Zachary Krueger takes a look Konami Code quarterbacks and how their expected points can predict fantasy success. In recent years, Konami Code quarterbacks have become a driving force of fantasy success. Taking a quick look at the top-12 quarterbacks in PPR from the 2020 season, it’s apparent that rushing…...

The 2020 Best Ball Win Rate Awards and 3 Key Takeaways to Help Us Crush Again in 2021

Shawn Siegele gives out best ball player awards and uses the best ball tools suite to help you understand why the lessons from the Best Ball Workshop crushed again in 2020. Best ball guru Mike Beers just updated the Roster Construction Explorers with 2020 data. Next to the culminating moments of a fantasy championship, this is my favorite moment of the fantasy season. Readers who…...

Going Green With the Best Ball Win Rate Explorer: 3 TEs to Target in the TE Window in BestBall10s

Over the last few weeks, Zachary Krueger has been breaking down players to target per the Positional Heat Map in the Best Ball Win Rate Explorer. The articles on quarterbacks, running backs, and wide receivers can be found below. This article, the fourth and final of the series, focuses on tight ends. Never a proponent of the early round tight end, there’s nothing better than…...

Life After Leonard: Analyzing Jacksonville’s Offense After Fournette’s Release

The Leonard Fournette era in Jacksonville has come to an end. The former fourth overall pick in 2017, drafted ahead of Christian McCaffrey, Dalvin Cook, and Alvin Kamara, just to name a few, was officially released this morning, ending a rocky tenure with the Jaguars. Although it had been rumored that Jacksonville wanted to move on from him, no one saw a release coming. The…...

Going Green With the Best Ball Win Rate Explorer: 3 WRs to Target in the WR Window in BestBall 10s

Over the last few weeks, Zachary Krueger has been breaking down players we should target per the Positional Heat Map in the Best Ball Win Rate Explorer. The articles on quarterbacks and running backs can be found below. This article, the third of the series, focuses on wide receivers.  With limited time left before the first game of the NFL season gets underway, it’s time…...

Just How Crazy Was 2020? Insights from the Win the Flex App and Strategies for 2021 Drafts

Drafting successfully means, at least in part, picking the right kinds of players and avoiding the wrong kinds. We provide a lot of guidance at RotoViz on who the right and wrong kind of players to draft are. Still, getting the player selection tactics down is only part of the solution for finding the game-changing win rates we know are possible. Shawn Siegele has detailed…...

Tyler Boyd Headlines the 5 Best Values in Early Best Ball Drafts

Shawn Siegele locates the five best values in early best ball drafts, including always overlooked star Tyler Boyd. In the Best Ball Workshop I’ve been showing you how to beat your FFPC Classic and Slim drafts in a wide variety of ways. The initial Superflex lesson provides a quick QB hack to boost your win rate above 10%. The PK lesson demonstrates how a couple of…...

A.J. Dillon Might Not Be the Next Derrick Henry, but His Comps Suggest We Haven’t Seen His Ceiling Yet

Last week, as part of the RotoViz Rookie Review Series, I took a look at Rams running back Cam Akers and some of his closest rookie comps according to the RotoViz Screener. For this week’s article, I take a look at yet another running back, but one who saw significantly less work than Akers did in 2020. The Green Bay Packers had a controversial rookie draft class. Coming off…...

2021 QB Range of Outcome Projections: Justin Herbert Is a Star

Dave Caban considers 2021 quarterback projections built by the RotoViz Range of Outcomes app. The Range of Outcomes app (ROO) is one of my favorite tools we have at RotoViz. No joke, I actually get butterflies in my stomach when I roll it forward each year and get a first glimpse of the results. Last year, I wrote an in-depth article that details what the…...

Best Ball Workshop: Playing DEF Correctly in FFPC Leagues Is Like Adding Another Star to Your Roster

Shawn Siegele shows you how to gain a big advantage in your FFPC Classic best ball league just by making some simple decisions on defense. The rhetoric around fantasy leagues increasingly focuses on hitting a high win-rate player early and trying to land a sleeper. Of course, this helps. And I’m (very) biased, but I think RotoViz is your leading source of those hits. Last…...

A Late Season Surge Has Drafters High on Cam Akers in 2021, but What Do His Comps Suggest?

The Rams drafted running back Cam Akers in the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft in hopes of replacing former stud Todd Gurley. Often viewed as a solid athlete whose production was capped by a poor supporting cast at Florida State, Akers entered his rookie season with a ceiling some thought was yet to be realized. A strong finish to the season that resulted in two playoff…...

Best Ball Workshop: This Roster Hack Provides FFPC Win Rates Equal to Owning Derrick Henry

Want your best ball teams to start with baked-in win rates equivalent to owning Derrick Henry in a record-setting season? Shawn Siegele uses the FFPC Roster Construction Explorer to show you how. Last year Henry rushed 378 times and averaged a career high 5.4 yards per carry. His elite combination of rushing volume and explosiveness produced the NFL’s fourth 2,000-yard rushing season of the last…...

You’re Probably Targeting Upside and Safety in the Wrong Parts of Your Draft … And Killing Your Best Ball Win Rates – The Wrong Read, No. 67

The previous Wrong Read looked at best ball win rates as a function of age and experience. The surprising finding is that at almost every position, younger and less experienced players underperform. Two factors combine to make this the case. First, the optionality profile of best ball leagues makes them less ideal for players with a wide range of outcomes than traditional redraft leagues. If…...

How We Used the FFPC Best Ball Command Center to Land 10 Big Values in the First 17 Rounds

Because of the fantastic tools at RotoViz and articles like those Sam Wallace highlighted yesterday, Shawn was able to turn a handful of FFPC Main Event teams into more than $10,000 last year. Today, he’ll demonstrate how to turn some of these tools to profit in your own leagues. In the previous edition of the Best Ball Workshop, we talked about using the RCE to…...

Risers and Fallers: FFPC ADPs That Could Be Poised to Move Post Free Agency

With FFPC best ball drafts well under way, Zachary Krueger takes a look at the FFPC Exposures and ADP tool to identify a few players who could be getting drafted at bargain prices and those we should avoid until later. With FFPC best ball lobbies having been open for a little over two weeks, it’s the perfect time to map out some plans for the 2021…...

Are Your Best Ball Teams Too Young? Age, Experience, Upside, and Optionality in Redraft and Best Ball – The Wrong Read, No. 66

Anyone who spends much time perusing this site will soon realize we tend to have a strong youth bias. We’re constantly searching for the next rookie sensation, and much of our dynasty advice comes down to selling your stars — especially at RB — while you can still get your leaguemates to pay elite-level prices for them. Nearly always, we advise trying to make your…...

2 Historically Efficient Second-Year RBs Have Seen Their Prices Skyrocket, but They’re Still Too Cheap

Zachary Krueger dives into the RotoViz Screener to look at two rookie running backs who rose to the top of historical efficiency metrics in 2020. Heading into this season, the 2020 rookie class carried some of the biggest buzz in recent history. Whether you were debating between Joe Burrow vs. Tua Tagovailoa, CeeDee Lamb vs. Justin Jefferson or Clyde Edwards-Helaire vs. Jonathan Taylor, the debates around these few players only scratched the surface of what was…...

Early FFPC Best Ball Drafts: Round 1 Looks a Lot Different in 2021

FFPC Best Ball drafts are live! Shawn Siegele talks strategy and discusses three key developments from the 2021 shakeup in first-round ADP. A late Nyheim Hines stat revision knocked our FFPC Main Event team from 29th to 31st and cost us a chunk of cash, but Blair Andrews and I are already reinvesting some of our profits on 2021 leagues. We’ll keep you updated on…...

A Historical Look at Konami Code QBs Says You Should Capitalize on Jalen Hurts Doubters in 2021

Every season, fantasy gamers look for the hidden upside players possess during draft season. In this article, Zachary Krueger takes a look Konami Code quarterbacks and how their expected points can predict fantasy success. In recent years, Konami Code quarterbacks have become a driving force of fantasy success. Taking a quick look at the top-12 quarterbacks in PPR from the 2020 season, it’s apparent that rushing…...

The 2020 Best Ball Win Rate Awards and 3 Key Takeaways to Help Us Crush Again in 2021

Shawn Siegele gives out best ball player awards and uses the best ball tools suite to help you understand why the lessons from the Best Ball Workshop crushed again in 2020. Best ball guru Mike Beers just updated the Roster Construction Explorers with 2020 data. Next to the culminating moments of a fantasy championship, this is my favorite moment of the fantasy season. Readers who…...

Going Green With the Best Ball Win Rate Explorer: 3 TEs to Target in the TE Window in BestBall10s

Over the last few weeks, Zachary Krueger has been breaking down players to target per the Positional Heat Map in the Best Ball Win Rate Explorer. The articles on quarterbacks, running backs, and wide receivers can be found below. This article, the fourth and final of the series, focuses on tight ends. Never a proponent of the early round tight end, there’s nothing better than…...

Life After Leonard: Analyzing Jacksonville’s Offense After Fournette’s Release

The Leonard Fournette era in Jacksonville has come to an end. The former fourth overall pick in 2017, drafted ahead of Christian McCaffrey, Dalvin Cook, and Alvin Kamara, just to name a few, was officially released this morning, ending a rocky tenure with the Jaguars. Although it had been rumored that Jacksonville wanted to move on from him, no one saw a release coming. The…...

Going Green With the Best Ball Win Rate Explorer: 3 WRs to Target in the WR Window in BestBall 10s

Over the last few weeks, Zachary Krueger has been breaking down players we should target per the Positional Heat Map in the Best Ball Win Rate Explorer. The articles on quarterbacks and running backs can be found below. This article, the third of the series, focuses on wide receivers.  With limited time left before the first game of the NFL season gets underway, it’s time…...

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