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This Method for Crushing Underdog Tournaments With Rookie RBs Is Counterintuitive But Powerful
Blair Andrews
May 11, 2023
In Part 1, Blair Andrews argued that Jahmyr Gibbs is undervalued in best ball, even at his current valuation, right at the Round 3/4 turn. Rookie running backs drafted in the first 100 reality picks — especially those who are young — have a better chance than most other RBs to put up big scores in the fantasy playoffs. But an obvious question remains: can…...
Jahmyr Gibbs Is the Best Value in Every Draft: How to Find Rookie RB Stars in Underdog’s Best Ball Mania IV
Blair Andrews
May 9, 2023
Shawn Siegele, Dave Caban, Curtis Patrick, and I spent NFL Draft Sunday night arguing (in a friendly way) about rookie rankings and completing mock drafts for Volume 3 of the RotoViz Rookie Guide. I spent much of that time trying to convince my co-rankers that reasonable people could rank Jahmyr Gibbs as the rookie 1.01. I even took him first overall in one of our…...
9 Incumbent RBs Were Big Winners on Draft Day, and 4 Make Ideal Picks for the Perfect BBM IV Roster
Shawn Siegele
May 3, 2023
Shawn Siegele profiles the nine biggest veteran running winners following the 2023 NFL draft. Just how high do they climb now, and which four still look undervalued in the opening days of Best Ball Mania IV? The RotoViz team had a blast with our NFL draft reactions over the weekend and released Volume 3 of the Rookie Guide on Monday morning. We’ll have a lot…...
Draft These 2 Talented Wide Receivers with Paths to Huge Upside Before Their ADPs Shoot Up
Meng Song
April 17, 2023
Meng Song discusses a couple of sleeper wide receivers to draft now for 2023 before an inevitable rise in their ADPs. There are plenty of wide receiver values so far this offseason. With recent signings and trades during free agency, a number of wide receivers have been on the move, which can create ADP values when projecting for the 2023 season. Michael Hitchcock recently discussed…...
Underdog Best Ball: The Superflex Tournament Gives You So Much Freedom to Be Aggressive
Shawn Siegele
April 11, 2023
In Lesson 2 of the Best Ball Workshop, Shawn Siegele breaks down an aggressive approach to roster construction for Underdog’s Superflex tournament. As we close in on NFL draft day, Underdog’s Big Board: Superflex gives you the joy of drafting, the flexibility of SF, and the ability to tell your friends you won $100,000 because you knew which rookies were going to hit. If you’re following…...
Best Ball Workshop: Benefit from Chaos and Avoid the QB Buzzsaw in Underdog’s Superflex Tournament
Shawn Siegele
April 6, 2023
Shawn Siegele explores how to attack the early rounds of Underdog’s fantastic new Superflex best ball tournament. Colm Kelly and I have drafted Underdog and FFPC squads all spring on RotoViz Overtime, and I’m going to start the 2023 Best Ball Workshop by looking at our most recent foray, an entry in the Underdog Big Board: Superflex contest. I love the rise of Superflex…...
Brandin Cooks Is Once Again Paired with a Good Quarterback, But Is That Enough to Make Him a Value in Fantasy Drafts?
Michael Hitchcock
March 19, 2023
The Dallas Cowboys traded two late picks to acquire Brandin Cooks from the Houston Texans. This will be Cooks’ fifth team as he enters his 10th NFL season. While he gets a quarterback upgrade, he also gets more talented target competition. Can he have a late career revival in Dallas? And is he worth drafting in any event? Cooks has been an extremely productive player…...
Does D.J. Moore Finally Have the Quarterback Upgrade We’ve Been Waiting For?
Michael Hitchcock
March 11, 2023
Just five days after the NFL combine, the 2023 NFL Draft got its first major shakeup. The Carolina Panthers, who missed on high-profile quarterbacks Matthew Stafford and Deshaun Watson the last two years, decided it was time to be in a position to select their future franchise signal caller. As usual, the cost to move up to the first-overall pick is not cheap. But the…...
Josh Jacobs Set the Fantasy World on Fire in 2022, and the Next Jacobs Might Be in the 2022 Rookie Class
Michael Hitchcock
March 1, 2023
Josh Jacobs was a polarizing player last offseason. His fifth-year option was declined, which led to many heated debates about the future Raiders RB depth chart. When drafting season closed on Underdog Jacobs was regularly going in the seventh round. Jacobs rewarded his drafters with a 330-point fantasy season, which was good for an RB3 overall finish.  Most of the discourse around Josh Jacobs…...
This 2022 Rookie Might Be the Next Mark Andrews, But Will His Team Situation Make a Breakout Possible?
Corbin Young
February 22, 2023
The Ravens selected Mark Andrews in the third round of the 2018 NFL Draft, over 50 picks later than Hayden Hurst, a former first-rounder. That became one of the Ravens’ most fruitful drafts, with Lamar Jackson and Andrews remaining staples in the offense. Andrews scored 22 touchdowns in college, with eight coming in his final season, plus 958 receiving yards. He ran a 4.58 40-yard…...
When Wide Receiver Isn’t an Option: How to Navigate the Middle Rounds of a Superflex Draft
Blair Andrews
February 21, 2023
With the 2022 season officially over, 2023 best ball season is now back in full force. The FFPC is running two “Never-Too-Early” Best Ball Tournaments. Shawn Siegele and I are currently taking part in a draft for the Superflex version. Superflex drafts add several strategic wrinkles. While standard 1-quarterback best ball is far from solved, there are a few dominant strategies that most players are…...
A Superflex Best Ball Tournament Is the Perfect Format for Contrarian Strategies, But How Crazy Can You Get?
Blair Andrews
February 16, 2023
With the 2022 season officially over, 2023 best ball season is now back in full force. Underdog’s Big Board Tournament includes upcoming 2023 rookies and pays out $200,000 to first place. Their Little Board follows the same basic structure but costs less to enter, has fewer entrants, and pays out $10,000 to first. If you’re new to Underdog and want to get in on the…...
Running the Gauntlet Again: Creating New Upside Scenarios as Underdog’s Playoff Contest Returns
Shawn Siegele
January 18, 2023
Shawn Siegele breaks down results from the first round of the Underdog playoff tournaments and begins the strategy session for new versions of the Gauntlet and Mitten. The Underdog playoff contests are compulsively addictive six-person drafts. Each team selects a 10-player best ball lineup that starts 1-QB, 1-RB, 2-WR/TE, and 1-Flex in the battle to progress through each individual playoff round and win the big…...
Friday Playoff Draft Excitement: 7 Potent Scenarios and Player Combos to Win Underdog’s Gauntlet 2
Shawn Siegele
January 13, 2023
By now you’re probably familiar with how awesomely addictive this contest is, and if you’re not you can read the full intros in some of my previous strategy pieces. As I write this on Thursday night, four versions of the Mitten have filled and Gauntlet 2 is 53% full. If you have the best draft execution on Friday, you could win the $200,000. In this…...
Underdog Playoff Prices Are Changing Quickly: 5 Tactical Moves to Take Advantage (Updated)
Shawn Siegele
January 9, 2023
Shawn Siegele examines the swiftly changing landscape of Underdog playoff contests and explains how to turn new prices to your advantage. Update: I’ve tweaked the Saturday version after the Jaguars, Dolphins, and Seahawks locked down their playoff spots. Underdog playoff drafts are fast-paced, exciting, and addictive. The $25 Gauntlet contest is now 80% full. Update: The Gauntlet has filled and Gauntlet 2 is now open…...
After Pinpointing the Biggest Bust in 2021, the 2022 Playoff Best Ball Model is Fading a Superstar RB Once Again
Michael Dubner
January 1, 2023
As the fantasy football regular season wraps up this weekend, our attention turns to NFL Playoff Best Ball Tournaments. Underdog has launched several playoff tournaments, including The Guantlet which has a $100,000 first-place prize. After fading the 2021 first-round pick Jonathan Taylor in 2021 playoff best ball drafts – who was the biggest bust after the Colts’ epic collapse and elimination from playoff contention –…...
A Contrarian Approach to Underdog Playoff Contests That Offers an Intoxicating Blend of Safety and Upside
Shawn Siegele
December 30, 2022
Shawn Siegele explains his contrarian approach for the Underdog playoff tournaments. If you want to maximize your advance rates while building a potentially powerful Super Bowl squad, these reality underdogs could be the way to do it. Gauntlet and Mitten drafts are now live over at Underdog. The Mitten 1 filled, so we’re on to Mitten 2, which is currently at 40% and filling fast…....
How the Best Ball Tools Launched a Superflex Team to the FFPC Finals
Shawn Siegele
December 29, 2022
In today’s free article, Shawn Siegele works through the player analysis and tactical decisions that led to a spot in the FFPC Superflex finals. As the best time in the fantasy calendar rolls around, we’ve been having a blast around RotoViz headquarters. While members of the staff get ready to compete for best ball tournament championships, we’ve also been inundated with messages from subscribers and…...
Running the Underdog Gauntlet: Draft Plans and Tactics for Taking Down the $100k
Shawn Siegele
December 23, 2022
Gauntlet and Mitten drafts are now live over at Underdog. Madison Parkhill wrote a great strategy piece earlier this week, and it’ll help get you start attacking these fun playoff tournaments. The Gauntlet is a $25 playoff contest that features a $100,000 top prize and requires contestants to advance through each of the first three rounds and then win the tournament during the Super Bowl…....
How to Win Underdog’s Playoff Best Ball Tournaments
Madison Parkhill
December 20, 2022
It’s one of my favorite times of the year – playoff best ball szn. As our season-long managed and best ball teams come to an end, playoff best ball comes to the rescue. While the optimization of our rosters is the same, the playoff format has some key differences. Let’s start with the basics. The Basics Each Underdog tournament has six drafters and 10 rounds,…...
This Method for Crushing Underdog Tournaments With Rookie RBs Is Counterintuitive But Powerful
Blair Andrews
May 11, 2023
In Part 1, Blair Andrews argued that Jahmyr Gibbs is undervalued in best ball, even at his current valuation, right at the Round 3/4 turn. Rookie running backs drafted in the first 100 reality picks — especially those who are young — have a better chance than most other RBs to put up big scores in the fantasy playoffs. But an obvious question remains: can…...
Jahmyr Gibbs Is the Best Value in Every Draft: How to Find Rookie RB Stars in Underdog’s Best Ball Mania IV
Blair Andrews
May 9, 2023
Shawn Siegele, Dave Caban, Curtis Patrick, and I spent NFL Draft Sunday night arguing (in a friendly way) about rookie rankings and completing mock drafts for Volume 3 of the RotoViz Rookie Guide. I spent much of that time trying to convince my co-rankers that reasonable people could rank Jahmyr Gibbs as the rookie 1.01. I even took him first overall in one of our…...
9 Incumbent RBs Were Big Winners on Draft Day, and 4 Make Ideal Picks for the Perfect BBM IV Roster
Shawn Siegele
May 3, 2023
Shawn Siegele profiles the nine biggest veteran running winners following the 2023 NFL draft. Just how high do they climb now, and which four still look undervalued in the opening days of Best Ball Mania IV? The RotoViz team had a blast with our NFL draft reactions over the weekend and released Volume 3 of the Rookie Guide on Monday morning. We’ll have a lot…...
Draft These 2 Talented Wide Receivers with Paths to Huge Upside Before Their ADPs Shoot Up
Meng Song
April 17, 2023
Meng Song discusses a couple of sleeper wide receivers to draft now for 2023 before an inevitable rise in their ADPs. There are plenty of wide receiver values so far this offseason. With recent signings and trades during free agency, a number of wide receivers have been on the move, which can create ADP values when projecting for the 2023 season. Michael Hitchcock recently discussed…...
Underdog Best Ball: The Superflex Tournament Gives You So Much Freedom to Be Aggressive
Shawn Siegele
April 11, 2023
In Lesson 2 of the Best Ball Workshop, Shawn Siegele breaks down an aggressive approach to roster construction for Underdog’s Superflex tournament. As we close in on NFL draft day, Underdog’s Big Board: Superflex gives you the joy of drafting, the flexibility of SF, and the ability to tell your friends you won $100,000 because you knew which rookies were going to hit. If you’re following…...
Best Ball Workshop: Benefit from Chaos and Avoid the QB Buzzsaw in Underdog’s Superflex Tournament
Shawn Siegele
April 6, 2023
Shawn Siegele explores how to attack the early rounds of Underdog’s fantastic new Superflex best ball tournament. Colm Kelly and I have drafted Underdog and FFPC squads all spring on RotoViz Overtime, and I’m going to start the 2023 Best Ball Workshop by looking at our most recent foray, an entry in the Underdog Big Board: Superflex contest. I love the rise of Superflex…...
Brandin Cooks Is Once Again Paired with a Good Quarterback, But Is That Enough to Make Him a Value in Fantasy Drafts?
Michael Hitchcock
March 19, 2023
The Dallas Cowboys traded two late picks to acquire Brandin Cooks from the Houston Texans. This will be Cooks’ fifth team as he enters his 10th NFL season. While he gets a quarterback upgrade, he also gets more talented target competition. Can he have a late career revival in Dallas? And is he worth drafting in any event? Cooks has been an extremely productive player…...
Does D.J. Moore Finally Have the Quarterback Upgrade We’ve Been Waiting For?
Michael Hitchcock
March 11, 2023
Just five days after the NFL combine, the 2023 NFL Draft got its first major shakeup. The Carolina Panthers, who missed on high-profile quarterbacks Matthew Stafford and Deshaun Watson the last two years, decided it was time to be in a position to select their future franchise signal caller. As usual, the cost to move up to the first-overall pick is not cheap. But the…...
Josh Jacobs Set the Fantasy World on Fire in 2022, and the Next Jacobs Might Be in the 2022 Rookie Class
Michael Hitchcock
March 1, 2023
Josh Jacobs was a polarizing player last offseason. His fifth-year option was declined, which led to many heated debates about the future Raiders RB depth chart. When drafting season closed on Underdog Jacobs was regularly going in the seventh round. Jacobs rewarded his drafters with a 330-point fantasy season, which was good for an RB3 overall finish.  Most of the discourse around Josh Jacobs…...
This 2022 Rookie Might Be the Next Mark Andrews, But Will His Team Situation Make a Breakout Possible?
Corbin Young
February 22, 2023
The Ravens selected Mark Andrews in the third round of the 2018 NFL Draft, over 50 picks later than Hayden Hurst, a former first-rounder. That became one of the Ravens’ most fruitful drafts, with Lamar Jackson and Andrews remaining staples in the offense. Andrews scored 22 touchdowns in college, with eight coming in his final season, plus 958 receiving yards. He ran a 4.58 40-yard…...
When Wide Receiver Isn’t an Option: How to Navigate the Middle Rounds of a Superflex Draft
Blair Andrews
February 21, 2023
With the 2022 season officially over, 2023 best ball season is now back in full force. The FFPC is running two “Never-Too-Early” Best Ball Tournaments. Shawn Siegele and I are currently taking part in a draft for the Superflex version. Superflex drafts add several strategic wrinkles. While standard 1-quarterback best ball is far from solved, there are a few dominant strategies that most players are…...
A Superflex Best Ball Tournament Is the Perfect Format for Contrarian Strategies, But How Crazy Can You Get?
Blair Andrews
February 16, 2023
With the 2022 season officially over, 2023 best ball season is now back in full force. Underdog’s Big Board Tournament includes upcoming 2023 rookies and pays out $200,000 to first place. Their Little Board follows the same basic structure but costs less to enter, has fewer entrants, and pays out $10,000 to first. If you’re new to Underdog and want to get in on the…...
Running the Gauntlet Again: Creating New Upside Scenarios as Underdog’s Playoff Contest Returns
Shawn Siegele
January 18, 2023
Shawn Siegele breaks down results from the first round of the Underdog playoff tournaments and begins the strategy session for new versions of the Gauntlet and Mitten. The Underdog playoff contests are compulsively addictive six-person drafts. Each team selects a 10-player best ball lineup that starts 1-QB, 1-RB, 2-WR/TE, and 1-Flex in the battle to progress through each individual playoff round and win the big…...
Friday Playoff Draft Excitement: 7 Potent Scenarios and Player Combos to Win Underdog’s Gauntlet 2
Shawn Siegele
January 13, 2023
By now you’re probably familiar with how awesomely addictive this contest is, and if you’re not you can read the full intros in some of my previous strategy pieces. As I write this on Thursday night, four versions of the Mitten have filled and Gauntlet 2 is 53% full. If you have the best draft execution on Friday, you could win the $200,000. In this…...
Underdog Playoff Prices Are Changing Quickly: 5 Tactical Moves to Take Advantage (Updated)
Shawn Siegele
January 9, 2023
Shawn Siegele examines the swiftly changing landscape of Underdog playoff contests and explains how to turn new prices to your advantage. Update: I’ve tweaked the Saturday version after the Jaguars, Dolphins, and Seahawks locked down their playoff spots. Underdog playoff drafts are fast-paced, exciting, and addictive. The $25 Gauntlet contest is now 80% full. Update: The Gauntlet has filled and Gauntlet 2 is now open…...
After Pinpointing the Biggest Bust in 2021, the 2022 Playoff Best Ball Model is Fading a Superstar RB Once Again
Michael Dubner
January 1, 2023
As the fantasy football regular season wraps up this weekend, our attention turns to NFL Playoff Best Ball Tournaments. Underdog has launched several playoff tournaments, including The Guantlet which has a $100,000 first-place prize. After fading the 2021 first-round pick Jonathan Taylor in 2021 playoff best ball drafts – who was the biggest bust after the Colts’ epic collapse and elimination from playoff contention –…...
A Contrarian Approach to Underdog Playoff Contests That Offers an Intoxicating Blend of Safety and Upside
Shawn Siegele
December 30, 2022
Shawn Siegele explains his contrarian approach for the Underdog playoff tournaments. If you want to maximize your advance rates while building a potentially powerful Super Bowl squad, these reality underdogs could be the way to do it. Gauntlet and Mitten drafts are now live over at Underdog. The Mitten 1 filled, so we’re on to Mitten 2, which is currently at 40% and filling fast…....
How the Best Ball Tools Launched a Superflex Team to the FFPC Finals
Shawn Siegele
December 29, 2022
In today’s free article, Shawn Siegele works through the player analysis and tactical decisions that led to a spot in the FFPC Superflex finals. As the best time in the fantasy calendar rolls around, we’ve been having a blast around RotoViz headquarters. While members of the staff get ready to compete for best ball tournament championships, we’ve also been inundated with messages from subscribers and…...
Running the Underdog Gauntlet: Draft Plans and Tactics for Taking Down the $100k
Shawn Siegele
December 23, 2022
Gauntlet and Mitten drafts are now live over at Underdog. Madison Parkhill wrote a great strategy piece earlier this week, and it’ll help get you start attacking these fun playoff tournaments. The Gauntlet is a $25 playoff contest that features a $100,000 top prize and requires contestants to advance through each of the first three rounds and then win the tournament during the Super Bowl…....
How to Win Underdog’s Playoff Best Ball Tournaments
Madison Parkhill
December 20, 2022
It’s one of my favorite times of the year – playoff best ball szn. As our season-long managed and best ball teams come to an end, playoff best ball comes to the rescue. While the optimization of our rosters is the same, the playoff format has some key differences. Let’s start with the basics. The Basics Each Underdog tournament has six drafters and 10 rounds,…...
This Method for Crushing Underdog Tournaments With Rookie RBs Is Counterintuitive But Powerful
Blair Andrews
May 11, 2023
In Part 1, Blair Andrews argued that Jahmyr Gibbs is undervalued in best ball, even at his current valuation, right at the Round 3/4 turn. Rookie running backs drafted in the first 100 reality picks — especially those who are young — have a better chance than most other RBs to put up big scores in the fantasy playoffs. But an obvious question remains: can…...
Jahmyr Gibbs Is the Best Value in Every Draft: How to Find Rookie RB Stars in Underdog’s Best Ball Mania IV
Blair Andrews
May 9, 2023
Shawn Siegele, Dave Caban, Curtis Patrick, and I spent NFL Draft Sunday night arguing (in a friendly way) about rookie rankings and completing mock drafts for Volume 3 of the RotoViz Rookie Guide. I spent much of that time trying to convince my co-rankers that reasonable people could rank Jahmyr Gibbs as the rookie 1.01. I even took him first overall in one of our…...
9 Incumbent RBs Were Big Winners on Draft Day, and 4 Make Ideal Picks for the Perfect BBM IV Roster
Shawn Siegele
May 3, 2023
Shawn Siegele profiles the nine biggest veteran running winners following the 2023 NFL draft. Just how high do they climb now, and which four still look undervalued in the opening days of Best Ball Mania IV? The RotoViz team had a blast with our NFL draft reactions over the weekend and released Volume 3 of the Rookie Guide on Monday morning. We’ll have a lot…...
Draft These 2 Talented Wide Receivers with Paths to Huge Upside Before Their ADPs Shoot Up
Meng Song
April 17, 2023
Meng Song discusses a couple of sleeper wide receivers to draft now for 2023 before an inevitable rise in their ADPs. There are plenty of wide receiver values so far this offseason. With recent signings and trades during free agency, a number of wide receivers have been on the move, which can create ADP values when projecting for the 2023 season. Michael Hitchcock recently discussed…...
Underdog Best Ball: The Superflex Tournament Gives You So Much Freedom to Be Aggressive
Shawn Siegele
April 11, 2023
In Lesson 2 of the Best Ball Workshop, Shawn Siegele breaks down an aggressive approach to roster construction for Underdog’s Superflex tournament. As we close in on NFL draft day, Underdog’s Big Board: Superflex gives you the joy of drafting, the flexibility of SF, and the ability to tell your friends you won $100,000 because you knew which rookies were going to hit. If you’re following…...
Best Ball Workshop: Benefit from Chaos and Avoid the QB Buzzsaw in Underdog’s Superflex Tournament
Shawn Siegele
April 6, 2023
Shawn Siegele explores how to attack the early rounds of Underdog’s fantastic new Superflex best ball tournament. Colm Kelly and I have drafted Underdog and FFPC squads all spring on RotoViz Overtime, and I’m going to start the 2023 Best Ball Workshop by looking at our most recent foray, an entry in the Underdog Big Board: Superflex contest. I love the rise of Superflex…...
Brandin Cooks Is Once Again Paired with a Good Quarterback, But Is That Enough to Make Him a Value in Fantasy Drafts?
Michael Hitchcock
March 19, 2023
The Dallas Cowboys traded two late picks to acquire Brandin Cooks from the Houston Texans. This will be Cooks’ fifth team as he enters his 10th NFL season. While he gets a quarterback upgrade, he also gets more talented target competition. Can he have a late career revival in Dallas? And is he worth drafting in any event? Cooks has been an extremely productive player…...
Does D.J. Moore Finally Have the Quarterback Upgrade We’ve Been Waiting For?
Michael Hitchcock
March 11, 2023
Just five days after the NFL combine, the 2023 NFL Draft got its first major shakeup. The Carolina Panthers, who missed on high-profile quarterbacks Matthew Stafford and Deshaun Watson the last two years, decided it was time to be in a position to select their future franchise signal caller. As usual, the cost to move up to the first-overall pick is not cheap. But the…...
Josh Jacobs Set the Fantasy World on Fire in 2022, and the Next Jacobs Might Be in the 2022 Rookie Class
Michael Hitchcock
March 1, 2023
Josh Jacobs was a polarizing player last offseason. His fifth-year option was declined, which led to many heated debates about the future Raiders RB depth chart. When drafting season closed on Underdog Jacobs was regularly going in the seventh round. Jacobs rewarded his drafters with a 330-point fantasy season, which was good for an RB3 overall finish.  Most of the discourse around Josh Jacobs…...
This 2022 Rookie Might Be the Next Mark Andrews, But Will His Team Situation Make a Breakout Possible?
Corbin Young
February 22, 2023
The Ravens selected Mark Andrews in the third round of the 2018 NFL Draft, over 50 picks later than Hayden Hurst, a former first-rounder. That became one of the Ravens’ most fruitful drafts, with Lamar Jackson and Andrews remaining staples in the offense. Andrews scored 22 touchdowns in college, with eight coming in his final season, plus 958 receiving yards. He ran a 4.58 40-yard…...
When Wide Receiver Isn’t an Option: How to Navigate the Middle Rounds of a Superflex Draft
Blair Andrews
February 21, 2023
With the 2022 season officially over, 2023 best ball season is now back in full force. The FFPC is running two “Never-Too-Early” Best Ball Tournaments. Shawn Siegele and I are currently taking part in a draft for the Superflex version. Superflex drafts add several strategic wrinkles. While standard 1-quarterback best ball is far from solved, there are a few dominant strategies that most players are…...
A Superflex Best Ball Tournament Is the Perfect Format for Contrarian Strategies, But How Crazy Can You Get?
Blair Andrews
February 16, 2023
With the 2022 season officially over, 2023 best ball season is now back in full force. Underdog’s Big Board Tournament includes upcoming 2023 rookies and pays out $200,000 to first place. Their Little Board follows the same basic structure but costs less to enter, has fewer entrants, and pays out $10,000 to first. If you’re new to Underdog and want to get in on the…...
Running the Gauntlet Again: Creating New Upside Scenarios as Underdog’s Playoff Contest Returns
Shawn Siegele
January 18, 2023
Shawn Siegele breaks down results from the first round of the Underdog playoff tournaments and begins the strategy session for new versions of the Gauntlet and Mitten. The Underdog playoff contests are compulsively addictive six-person drafts. Each team selects a 10-player best ball lineup that starts 1-QB, 1-RB, 2-WR/TE, and 1-Flex in the battle to progress through each individual playoff round and win the big…...
Friday Playoff Draft Excitement: 7 Potent Scenarios and Player Combos to Win Underdog’s Gauntlet 2
Shawn Siegele
January 13, 2023
By now you’re probably familiar with how awesomely addictive this contest is, and if you’re not you can read the full intros in some of my previous strategy pieces. As I write this on Thursday night, four versions of the Mitten have filled and Gauntlet 2 is 53% full. If you have the best draft execution on Friday, you could win the $200,000. In this…...
Underdog Playoff Prices Are Changing Quickly: 5 Tactical Moves to Take Advantage (Updated)
Shawn Siegele
January 9, 2023
Shawn Siegele examines the swiftly changing landscape of Underdog playoff contests and explains how to turn new prices to your advantage. Update: I’ve tweaked the Saturday version after the Jaguars, Dolphins, and Seahawks locked down their playoff spots. Underdog playoff drafts are fast-paced, exciting, and addictive. The $25 Gauntlet contest is now 80% full. Update: The Gauntlet has filled and Gauntlet 2 is now open…...
After Pinpointing the Biggest Bust in 2021, the 2022 Playoff Best Ball Model is Fading a Superstar RB Once Again
Michael Dubner
January 1, 2023
As the fantasy football regular season wraps up this weekend, our attention turns to NFL Playoff Best Ball Tournaments. Underdog has launched several playoff tournaments, including The Guantlet which has a $100,000 first-place prize. After fading the 2021 first-round pick Jonathan Taylor in 2021 playoff best ball drafts – who was the biggest bust after the Colts’ epic collapse and elimination from playoff contention –…...
A Contrarian Approach to Underdog Playoff Contests That Offers an Intoxicating Blend of Safety and Upside
Shawn Siegele
December 30, 2022
Shawn Siegele explains his contrarian approach for the Underdog playoff tournaments. If you want to maximize your advance rates while building a potentially powerful Super Bowl squad, these reality underdogs could be the way to do it. Gauntlet and Mitten drafts are now live over at Underdog. The Mitten 1 filled, so we’re on to Mitten 2, which is currently at 40% and filling fast…....
How the Best Ball Tools Launched a Superflex Team to the FFPC Finals
Shawn Siegele
December 29, 2022
In today’s free article, Shawn Siegele works through the player analysis and tactical decisions that led to a spot in the FFPC Superflex finals. As the best time in the fantasy calendar rolls around, we’ve been having a blast around RotoViz headquarters. While members of the staff get ready to compete for best ball tournament championships, we’ve also been inundated with messages from subscribers and…...
Running the Underdog Gauntlet: Draft Plans and Tactics for Taking Down the $100k
Shawn Siegele
December 23, 2022
Gauntlet and Mitten drafts are now live over at Underdog. Madison Parkhill wrote a great strategy piece earlier this week, and it’ll help get you start attacking these fun playoff tournaments. The Gauntlet is a $25 playoff contest that features a $100,000 top prize and requires contestants to advance through each of the first three rounds and then win the tournament during the Super Bowl…....
How to Win Underdog’s Playoff Best Ball Tournaments
Madison Parkhill
December 20, 2022
It’s one of my favorite times of the year – playoff best ball szn. As our season-long managed and best ball teams come to an end, playoff best ball comes to the rescue. While the optimization of our rosters is the same, the playoff format has some key differences. Let’s start with the basics. The Basics Each Underdog tournament has six drafters and 10 rounds,…...
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