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Author of the original Zero RB article and 2013 NFFC Primetime Grand Champion. 11-time main event league winner. 2015, 2017, 2018 titles in MFL10 of Death.
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How to Turn Elite-But-Lean WR Builds Into Deadly Tournament Rosters
Shawn Siegele
July 21, 2023
Shawn Siegele recommends aggressive draft selections to execute a trendy Underdog BBMIV draft plan that’s perfect for 2023. In the 2023 Underdog Workshop, I’m using the Roster Construction Explorer and Advance Rate Explorer to create evidence-based draft plans to handle any slot and room. The 2023 Underdog Workshop Will the Best-Parts Plan allow you to blend dominant tactics from 2021 and 2022? The evidence for…...
Tournaments Are About to Give Us 1 Must-Draft WR to Go With 1 Do-Not-Draft Bust
Shawn Siegele
July 19, 2023
Shawn Siegele explains why the hardest click in your draft also might be the player who wins you $3 million. In the 2023 FFPC and Underdog Best Ball Workshops, we’ve put together plans for balancing four objectives: Deploying draft structures that exploit the current year ADP landscape Selecting player archetypes with asymmetrical risk/reward profiles Generating additional ADP value within individual leagues Embracing the right type…...
Late-Round Tight End Never Works — But It Might Work for Us: 7 Tight Ends in the Double-Digit Rounds to Help You Lean Into the WR Avalanche
Blair Andrews
July 18, 2023
Elite-tight-end builds — or even double-elite-TE builds — have long been a staple of winning roster construction principles at RotoViz. Even in Shawn Siegele’s foundational Zero-RB article, he mentions that his preferred construction in the first five rounds includes four WRs and a TE. Looking back at the win rates for elite TE builds shows that beginning your draft with a top TE provides a…...
Is All Stacking Beneficial? The Theory and Data on Late Stacks and Back Stacking in Best Ball
Bjorn Yang-Vaernet
July 17, 2023
Bjorn Yang-Vaernet uses the RotoViz Best Ball Tools to explore whether drafters should be late stacking and back stacking in Underdog best ball tournaments Best ball has come a long way since Underdog arrived on the scene three years ago. In particular, what drafters consider “obvious” strategies today were debated in previous summers. A few of these strategies are: Getting ADP closing value Week 17…...
Combining Double-Anchor RB, WR Storm Tactics, ADP Value, and Tournament Upside in Best Ball Mania IV
Shawn Siegele
July 12, 2023
Shawn Siegele breaks down all 18 picks from a Best Ball Mania IV draft on a team that balances ADP value, overall roster construction, and correlation plays. In the previous Underdog Workshop, we looked at how to blend league-winning traits from 2021 and 2022 while capitalizing on the unique ADP environment of 2023. That team featured a double-anchor at RB but combined upside WRs with…...
A Contrarian Path to Supercharged Elite TE Builds: Keys to the 2023 FFPC Best Ball Tournament – Part 1
Conor O’Driscoll
July 10, 2023
Conor O’Driscoll took down the inaugural FFPC Best Ball Tournament, and followed that up by getting two teams into the finals last year. Now the world’s No. 1 authority on this unique tournament format gives you an in-depth look at his process for consistent success. First up, how should we approach the tight end position? Last year I wrote a short series about the FFPC…...
Is the QB Window Still Viable? Exploring the Impact of Quarterback Breakouts and Injuries
Blair Andrews
July 8, 2023
Earlier this offseason, Michael Dubner suggested that elite quarterbacks can carry teams to the playoffs despite the elevated cost. Shawn Siegele has found a number of late options with breakout potential. Both rightly pointed out that the QB window did not provide the returns in 2022 that we’ve come to expect. Yet, in many ways, the death of the QB window has been greatly exaggerated…....
My Favorite Way to Beat the Underdog Avalanche Mixes Fun, Firepower, Safety, and Upside
Shawn Siegele
July 7, 2023
Shawn Siegele examines a Best Ball Banana Stand draft with Peter Overzet and asks whether we can use the pressure from a WR Avalanche draft to help us think about tactics that bridge the 2021 and 2022 seasons in Underdog. Pete and I draft a team in BBM4 every Wednesday morning, and these drafts tend to be extremely WR heavy. That creates an interesting mix…...
Can J.K. Dobbins Earn a New Contract? When to Draft an Efficient Runner Who’s Underperformed in Fantasy
Stefan Lako
July 6, 2023
Much is made of contract years, and I usually fade the noise. But, like so much in life, there are always exceptions. However, for J.K. Dobbins, it is crystal clear, he is playing for his future! After three seasons in the NFL, Dobbins enters the final year of his rookie deal with a lot to prove. We have recently seen how difficult it is for…...
Tournament Champion or Crash and Burn? The Evidence For and Against a Contrarian Best Ball Play
Shawn Siegele
July 3, 2023
Shawn Siegele looks at the quarterback position in 2023 and dives into the tools to ask whether a deeply contrarian approach might be the answer that unlocks extreme upside builds. The RotoViz writers and subscribers have turned in some really big results over the years by gleaning insights from the Underdog and FFPC Roster Construction Explorers. If you understand what works year-in and year-out in…...
This Cheap Contrarian Stack Could Give Your Underdog Squads a 2022 Seahawks Level Boost
Michael Hitchcock
June 28, 2023
With all the prize money up for grabs in BBMIV on Underdog, we are searching for the best ways to optimize both our individual roster construction and our portfolio constrution. One aspect of portfolio construction that goes overlooked is adjusting for the number of teams you are drafting. I will be nowhere near the 150-entry limit when the tournament finally fills. If you are drafting…...
The Next DeVonta Smith Could Be the Perfect Way to Beat 2023’s WR Dead Zone
Shawn Siegele
June 27, 2023
Shawn Siegele dives deep into the evidence and breaks out the full RotoViz toolkit to help you find a receiver who profiles as the 2023 version of DeVonta Smith. In Part 1 of this series, I framed the project this way: You only have so many early-round selections. Players on the same NFL team are frequently dealing with the same team-level risks. That leads to…...
How to Use the Win the Flex and Range of Outcomes Tools to Find Undervalued Wide Receivers
Blair Andrews
June 22, 2023
RotoViz was a pioneer of the idea of structural drafting, often in tandem with the idea that the flex wins championships and that fantasy football drafts are a race to fill the flex. But we’ve always paired structural drafting with evidence-based player-level research. Success in fantasy is not as simple as drafting the right number of RBs or drafting a QB in the right round,…...
Roster Constructions That Work in the FFPC: Taking Advantage of Wide Receiver Values in Actual Drafts
Ross Durham
June 20, 2023
Finding elite WR talents even just a few rounds later in FFPC fundamentally changes how we’re able to build our teams. After winning the FFPC’s $125 Best Ball tournament in 2021, Conor O’Driscoll used the RV Roster Construction Explorer to show just how important combining winning structures is in that particular format. It is possible to get six elite WRs in BBMIV. But it often…...
Best Ball Workshop: Drafters Are Still Giving You a Dominant QB Approach in the FFPC SF Tournament
Shawn Siegele
June 19, 2023
Shawn Siegele examines quarterback tactics in the FFPC Superflex tournament and explains why a tournament-winning approach is still alive and well. The FFPC Best Ball Superflex tournament has always been one of my favorite contests to participate in and write about in the workshop. The most fun I had writing a piece last year may have been How the RotoViz Tools Fueled a Team to…...
Take Shelter from the Wide Receiver Avalanche: Finding WR Value in FFPC Drafts
Ross Durham
June 17, 2023
RotoViz has long been synonymous with Zero RB. But never before this season has it been tougher to hit Shawn Siegele’s preferred benchmark: to draft six wide receivers with realistic top-15 upside. The WR rush in Underdog’s BBMIV contest is so pronounced that drafters are passing on three-down running backs to stay ahead of the avalanche. Just a few years ago Rachaad White would have…...
The Late Rounds Are a Black Hole at WR, But These 5 Deep Options Could Be Tournament Winners
Shawn Siegele
June 15, 2023
Does the Wide Receiver Avalanche have you on the defensive in summer best ball drafts? Shawn Siegele breaks down his favorite deep sleeper options at receiver. The 2023 fantasy landscape features brutally WR-heavy tournament drafts. Those drafts become even more aggressive at WR when you look at the toughest rooms. Check out an OT listener league draft or a Best Ball Banana Stand contest. In…...
Two Arbitrage Options For Trendy Early Round Wide Receivers On Underdog
Michael Hitchcock
June 14, 2023
In 2023 wide receivers are going earlier than ever before. This, paired with elite quarterbacks going earlier than ever has presented a unique set of challenges for drafters this season. It’s common for 15 or more WRs to go in the first two rounds of drafts. The WRs in the first two rounds are rock solid, but immediately after that, we can poke holes in…...
Do Fantasy’s Best Sleepers and Biggest Reaches (at Both RB and WR) Reside on the Same NFL Team?
Shawn Siegele
June 13, 2023
Could 2022’s top WR breakout candidate and the best Zero RB option come from the same team? Shawn Siegele debates the best way to play a controversial offense. When RotoViz subscribers talk about crafting a roster, they’re usually thinking about a mix of structural drafting at the squad level and contingency-based drafting at the player level. They’re building their rosters out from back to front…...
Will Ty Chandler and DeWayne McBride Emerge as Zero RB Stars After Dalvin Cook’s Release?
Shawn Siegele
June 8, 2023
Shawn Siegele examines the fantasy fallout from Dalvin Cook’s release and asks whether Ty Chandler or DeWayne McBride could become the 2023 league winner as Alexander Mattison disappoints. It’s been an open secret that the Minnesota Vikings would move on from Cook this summer. The former star generated 101.5 fantasy points over expectation (FPOE) across the 2019 and 2020 seasons, but that dropped into the…...
How to Turn Elite-But-Lean WR Builds Into Deadly Tournament Rosters
Shawn Siegele
July 21, 2023
Shawn Siegele recommends aggressive draft selections to execute a trendy Underdog BBMIV draft plan that’s perfect for 2023. In the 2023 Underdog Workshop, I’m using the Roster Construction Explorer and Advance Rate Explorer to create evidence-based draft plans to handle any slot and room. The 2023 Underdog Workshop Will the Best-Parts Plan allow you to blend dominant tactics from 2021 and 2022? The evidence for…...
Tournaments Are About to Give Us 1 Must-Draft WR to Go With 1 Do-Not-Draft Bust
Shawn Siegele
July 19, 2023
Shawn Siegele explains why the hardest click in your draft also might be the player who wins you $3 million. In the 2023 FFPC and Underdog Best Ball Workshops, we’ve put together plans for balancing four objectives: Deploying draft structures that exploit the current year ADP landscape Selecting player archetypes with asymmetrical risk/reward profiles Generating additional ADP value within individual leagues Embracing the right type…...
Late-Round Tight End Never Works — But It Might Work for Us: 7 Tight Ends in the Double-Digit Rounds to Help You Lean Into the WR Avalanche
Blair Andrews
July 18, 2023
Elite-tight-end builds — or even double-elite-TE builds — have long been a staple of winning roster construction principles at RotoViz. Even in Shawn Siegele’s foundational Zero-RB article, he mentions that his preferred construction in the first five rounds includes four WRs and a TE. Looking back at the win rates for elite TE builds shows that beginning your draft with a top TE provides a…...
Is All Stacking Beneficial? The Theory and Data on Late Stacks and Back Stacking in Best Ball
Bjorn Yang-Vaernet
July 17, 2023
Bjorn Yang-Vaernet uses the RotoViz Best Ball Tools to explore whether drafters should be late stacking and back stacking in Underdog best ball tournaments Best ball has come a long way since Underdog arrived on the scene three years ago. In particular, what drafters consider “obvious” strategies today were debated in previous summers. A few of these strategies are: Getting ADP closing value Week 17…...
Combining Double-Anchor RB, WR Storm Tactics, ADP Value, and Tournament Upside in Best Ball Mania IV
Shawn Siegele
July 12, 2023
Shawn Siegele breaks down all 18 picks from a Best Ball Mania IV draft on a team that balances ADP value, overall roster construction, and correlation plays. In the previous Underdog Workshop, we looked at how to blend league-winning traits from 2021 and 2022 while capitalizing on the unique ADP environment of 2023. That team featured a double-anchor at RB but combined upside WRs with…...
A Contrarian Path to Supercharged Elite TE Builds: Keys to the 2023 FFPC Best Ball Tournament – Part 1
Conor O’Driscoll
July 10, 2023
Conor O’Driscoll took down the inaugural FFPC Best Ball Tournament, and followed that up by getting two teams into the finals last year. Now the world’s No. 1 authority on this unique tournament format gives you an in-depth look at his process for consistent success. First up, how should we approach the tight end position? Last year I wrote a short series about the FFPC…...
Is the QB Window Still Viable? Exploring the Impact of Quarterback Breakouts and Injuries
Blair Andrews
July 8, 2023
Earlier this offseason, Michael Dubner suggested that elite quarterbacks can carry teams to the playoffs despite the elevated cost. Shawn Siegele has found a number of late options with breakout potential. Both rightly pointed out that the QB window did not provide the returns in 2022 that we’ve come to expect. Yet, in many ways, the death of the QB window has been greatly exaggerated…....
My Favorite Way to Beat the Underdog Avalanche Mixes Fun, Firepower, Safety, and Upside
Shawn Siegele
July 7, 2023
Shawn Siegele examines a Best Ball Banana Stand draft with Peter Overzet and asks whether we can use the pressure from a WR Avalanche draft to help us think about tactics that bridge the 2021 and 2022 seasons in Underdog. Pete and I draft a team in BBM4 every Wednesday morning, and these drafts tend to be extremely WR heavy. That creates an interesting mix…...
Can J.K. Dobbins Earn a New Contract? When to Draft an Efficient Runner Who’s Underperformed in Fantasy
Stefan Lako
July 6, 2023
Much is made of contract years, and I usually fade the noise. But, like so much in life, there are always exceptions. However, for J.K. Dobbins, it is crystal clear, he is playing for his future! After three seasons in the NFL, Dobbins enters the final year of his rookie deal with a lot to prove. We have recently seen how difficult it is for…...
Tournament Champion or Crash and Burn? The Evidence For and Against a Contrarian Best Ball Play
Shawn Siegele
July 3, 2023
Shawn Siegele looks at the quarterback position in 2023 and dives into the tools to ask whether a deeply contrarian approach might be the answer that unlocks extreme upside builds. The RotoViz writers and subscribers have turned in some really big results over the years by gleaning insights from the Underdog and FFPC Roster Construction Explorers. If you understand what works year-in and year-out in…...
This Cheap Contrarian Stack Could Give Your Underdog Squads a 2022 Seahawks Level Boost
Michael Hitchcock
June 28, 2023
With all the prize money up for grabs in BBMIV on Underdog, we are searching for the best ways to optimize both our individual roster construction and our portfolio constrution. One aspect of portfolio construction that goes overlooked is adjusting for the number of teams you are drafting. I will be nowhere near the 150-entry limit when the tournament finally fills. If you are drafting…...
The Next DeVonta Smith Could Be the Perfect Way to Beat 2023’s WR Dead Zone
Shawn Siegele
June 27, 2023
Shawn Siegele dives deep into the evidence and breaks out the full RotoViz toolkit to help you find a receiver who profiles as the 2023 version of DeVonta Smith. In Part 1 of this series, I framed the project this way: You only have so many early-round selections. Players on the same NFL team are frequently dealing with the same team-level risks. That leads to…...
How to Use the Win the Flex and Range of Outcomes Tools to Find Undervalued Wide Receivers
Blair Andrews
June 22, 2023
RotoViz was a pioneer of the idea of structural drafting, often in tandem with the idea that the flex wins championships and that fantasy football drafts are a race to fill the flex. But we’ve always paired structural drafting with evidence-based player-level research. Success in fantasy is not as simple as drafting the right number of RBs or drafting a QB in the right round,…...
Roster Constructions That Work in the FFPC: Taking Advantage of Wide Receiver Values in Actual Drafts
Ross Durham
June 20, 2023
Finding elite WR talents even just a few rounds later in FFPC fundamentally changes how we’re able to build our teams. After winning the FFPC’s $125 Best Ball tournament in 2021, Conor O’Driscoll used the RV Roster Construction Explorer to show just how important combining winning structures is in that particular format. It is possible to get six elite WRs in BBMIV. But it often…...
Best Ball Workshop: Drafters Are Still Giving You a Dominant QB Approach in the FFPC SF Tournament
Shawn Siegele
June 19, 2023
Shawn Siegele examines quarterback tactics in the FFPC Superflex tournament and explains why a tournament-winning approach is still alive and well. The FFPC Best Ball Superflex tournament has always been one of my favorite contests to participate in and write about in the workshop. The most fun I had writing a piece last year may have been How the RotoViz Tools Fueled a Team to…...
Take Shelter from the Wide Receiver Avalanche: Finding WR Value in FFPC Drafts
Ross Durham
June 17, 2023
RotoViz has long been synonymous with Zero RB. But never before this season has it been tougher to hit Shawn Siegele’s preferred benchmark: to draft six wide receivers with realistic top-15 upside. The WR rush in Underdog’s BBMIV contest is so pronounced that drafters are passing on three-down running backs to stay ahead of the avalanche. Just a few years ago Rachaad White would have…...
The Late Rounds Are a Black Hole at WR, But These 5 Deep Options Could Be Tournament Winners
Shawn Siegele
June 15, 2023
Does the Wide Receiver Avalanche have you on the defensive in summer best ball drafts? Shawn Siegele breaks down his favorite deep sleeper options at receiver. The 2023 fantasy landscape features brutally WR-heavy tournament drafts. Those drafts become even more aggressive at WR when you look at the toughest rooms. Check out an OT listener league draft or a Best Ball Banana Stand contest. In…...
Two Arbitrage Options For Trendy Early Round Wide Receivers On Underdog
Michael Hitchcock
June 14, 2023
In 2023 wide receivers are going earlier than ever before. This, paired with elite quarterbacks going earlier than ever has presented a unique set of challenges for drafters this season. It’s common for 15 or more WRs to go in the first two rounds of drafts. The WRs in the first two rounds are rock solid, but immediately after that, we can poke holes in…...
Do Fantasy’s Best Sleepers and Biggest Reaches (at Both RB and WR) Reside on the Same NFL Team?
Shawn Siegele
June 13, 2023
Could 2022’s top WR breakout candidate and the best Zero RB option come from the same team? Shawn Siegele debates the best way to play a controversial offense. When RotoViz subscribers talk about crafting a roster, they’re usually thinking about a mix of structural drafting at the squad level and contingency-based drafting at the player level. They’re building their rosters out from back to front…...
Will Ty Chandler and DeWayne McBride Emerge as Zero RB Stars After Dalvin Cook’s Release?
Shawn Siegele
June 8, 2023
Shawn Siegele examines the fantasy fallout from Dalvin Cook’s release and asks whether Ty Chandler or DeWayne McBride could become the 2023 league winner as Alexander Mattison disappoints. It’s been an open secret that the Minnesota Vikings would move on from Cook this summer. The former star generated 101.5 fantasy points over expectation (FPOE) across the 2019 and 2020 seasons, but that dropped into the…...
How to Turn Elite-But-Lean WR Builds Into Deadly Tournament Rosters
Shawn Siegele
July 21, 2023
Shawn Siegele recommends aggressive draft selections to execute a trendy Underdog BBMIV draft plan that’s perfect for 2023. In the 2023 Underdog Workshop, I’m using the Roster Construction Explorer and Advance Rate Explorer to create evidence-based draft plans to handle any slot and room. The 2023 Underdog Workshop Will the Best-Parts Plan allow you to blend dominant tactics from 2021 and 2022? The evidence for…...
Tournaments Are About to Give Us 1 Must-Draft WR to Go With 1 Do-Not-Draft Bust
Shawn Siegele
July 19, 2023
Shawn Siegele explains why the hardest click in your draft also might be the player who wins you $3 million. In the 2023 FFPC and Underdog Best Ball Workshops, we’ve put together plans for balancing four objectives: Deploying draft structures that exploit the current year ADP landscape Selecting player archetypes with asymmetrical risk/reward profiles Generating additional ADP value within individual leagues Embracing the right type…...
Late-Round Tight End Never Works — But It Might Work for Us: 7 Tight Ends in the Double-Digit Rounds to Help You Lean Into the WR Avalanche
Blair Andrews
July 18, 2023
Elite-tight-end builds — or even double-elite-TE builds — have long been a staple of winning roster construction principles at RotoViz. Even in Shawn Siegele’s foundational Zero-RB article, he mentions that his preferred construction in the first five rounds includes four WRs and a TE. Looking back at the win rates for elite TE builds shows that beginning your draft with a top TE provides a…...
Is All Stacking Beneficial? The Theory and Data on Late Stacks and Back Stacking in Best Ball
Bjorn Yang-Vaernet
July 17, 2023
Bjorn Yang-Vaernet uses the RotoViz Best Ball Tools to explore whether drafters should be late stacking and back stacking in Underdog best ball tournaments Best ball has come a long way since Underdog arrived on the scene three years ago. In particular, what drafters consider “obvious” strategies today were debated in previous summers. A few of these strategies are: Getting ADP closing value Week 17…...
Combining Double-Anchor RB, WR Storm Tactics, ADP Value, and Tournament Upside in Best Ball Mania IV
Shawn Siegele
July 12, 2023
Shawn Siegele breaks down all 18 picks from a Best Ball Mania IV draft on a team that balances ADP value, overall roster construction, and correlation plays. In the previous Underdog Workshop, we looked at how to blend league-winning traits from 2021 and 2022 while capitalizing on the unique ADP environment of 2023. That team featured a double-anchor at RB but combined upside WRs with…...
A Contrarian Path to Supercharged Elite TE Builds: Keys to the 2023 FFPC Best Ball Tournament – Part 1
Conor O’Driscoll
July 10, 2023
Conor O’Driscoll took down the inaugural FFPC Best Ball Tournament, and followed that up by getting two teams into the finals last year. Now the world’s No. 1 authority on this unique tournament format gives you an in-depth look at his process for consistent success. First up, how should we approach the tight end position? Last year I wrote a short series about the FFPC…...
Is the QB Window Still Viable? Exploring the Impact of Quarterback Breakouts and Injuries
Blair Andrews
July 8, 2023
Earlier this offseason, Michael Dubner suggested that elite quarterbacks can carry teams to the playoffs despite the elevated cost. Shawn Siegele has found a number of late options with breakout potential. Both rightly pointed out that the QB window did not provide the returns in 2022 that we’ve come to expect. Yet, in many ways, the death of the QB window has been greatly exaggerated…....
My Favorite Way to Beat the Underdog Avalanche Mixes Fun, Firepower, Safety, and Upside
Shawn Siegele
July 7, 2023
Shawn Siegele examines a Best Ball Banana Stand draft with Peter Overzet and asks whether we can use the pressure from a WR Avalanche draft to help us think about tactics that bridge the 2021 and 2022 seasons in Underdog. Pete and I draft a team in BBM4 every Wednesday morning, and these drafts tend to be extremely WR heavy. That creates an interesting mix…...
Can J.K. Dobbins Earn a New Contract? When to Draft an Efficient Runner Who’s Underperformed in Fantasy
Stefan Lako
July 6, 2023
Much is made of contract years, and I usually fade the noise. But, like so much in life, there are always exceptions. However, for J.K. Dobbins, it is crystal clear, he is playing for his future! After three seasons in the NFL, Dobbins enters the final year of his rookie deal with a lot to prove. We have recently seen how difficult it is for…...
Tournament Champion or Crash and Burn? The Evidence For and Against a Contrarian Best Ball Play
Shawn Siegele
July 3, 2023
Shawn Siegele looks at the quarterback position in 2023 and dives into the tools to ask whether a deeply contrarian approach might be the answer that unlocks extreme upside builds. The RotoViz writers and subscribers have turned in some really big results over the years by gleaning insights from the Underdog and FFPC Roster Construction Explorers. If you understand what works year-in and year-out in…...
This Cheap Contrarian Stack Could Give Your Underdog Squads a 2022 Seahawks Level Boost
Michael Hitchcock
June 28, 2023
With all the prize money up for grabs in BBMIV on Underdog, we are searching for the best ways to optimize both our individual roster construction and our portfolio constrution. One aspect of portfolio construction that goes overlooked is adjusting for the number of teams you are drafting. I will be nowhere near the 150-entry limit when the tournament finally fills. If you are drafting…...
The Next DeVonta Smith Could Be the Perfect Way to Beat 2023’s WR Dead Zone
Shawn Siegele
June 27, 2023
Shawn Siegele dives deep into the evidence and breaks out the full RotoViz toolkit to help you find a receiver who profiles as the 2023 version of DeVonta Smith. In Part 1 of this series, I framed the project this way: You only have so many early-round selections. Players on the same NFL team are frequently dealing with the same team-level risks. That leads to…...
How to Use the Win the Flex and Range of Outcomes Tools to Find Undervalued Wide Receivers
Blair Andrews
June 22, 2023
RotoViz was a pioneer of the idea of structural drafting, often in tandem with the idea that the flex wins championships and that fantasy football drafts are a race to fill the flex. But we’ve always paired structural drafting with evidence-based player-level research. Success in fantasy is not as simple as drafting the right number of RBs or drafting a QB in the right round,…...
Roster Constructions That Work in the FFPC: Taking Advantage of Wide Receiver Values in Actual Drafts
Ross Durham
June 20, 2023
Finding elite WR talents even just a few rounds later in FFPC fundamentally changes how we’re able to build our teams. After winning the FFPC’s $125 Best Ball tournament in 2021, Conor O’Driscoll used the RV Roster Construction Explorer to show just how important combining winning structures is in that particular format. It is possible to get six elite WRs in BBMIV. But it often…...
Best Ball Workshop: Drafters Are Still Giving You a Dominant QB Approach in the FFPC SF Tournament
Shawn Siegele
June 19, 2023
Shawn Siegele examines quarterback tactics in the FFPC Superflex tournament and explains why a tournament-winning approach is still alive and well. The FFPC Best Ball Superflex tournament has always been one of my favorite contests to participate in and write about in the workshop. The most fun I had writing a piece last year may have been How the RotoViz Tools Fueled a Team to…...
Take Shelter from the Wide Receiver Avalanche: Finding WR Value in FFPC Drafts
Ross Durham
June 17, 2023
RotoViz has long been synonymous with Zero RB. But never before this season has it been tougher to hit Shawn Siegele’s preferred benchmark: to draft six wide receivers with realistic top-15 upside. The WR rush in Underdog’s BBMIV contest is so pronounced that drafters are passing on three-down running backs to stay ahead of the avalanche. Just a few years ago Rachaad White would have…...
The Late Rounds Are a Black Hole at WR, But These 5 Deep Options Could Be Tournament Winners
Shawn Siegele
June 15, 2023
Does the Wide Receiver Avalanche have you on the defensive in summer best ball drafts? Shawn Siegele breaks down his favorite deep sleeper options at receiver. The 2023 fantasy landscape features brutally WR-heavy tournament drafts. Those drafts become even more aggressive at WR when you look at the toughest rooms. Check out an OT listener league draft or a Best Ball Banana Stand contest. In…...
Two Arbitrage Options For Trendy Early Round Wide Receivers On Underdog
Michael Hitchcock
June 14, 2023
In 2023 wide receivers are going earlier than ever before. This, paired with elite quarterbacks going earlier than ever has presented a unique set of challenges for drafters this season. It’s common for 15 or more WRs to go in the first two rounds of drafts. The WRs in the first two rounds are rock solid, but immediately after that, we can poke holes in…...
Do Fantasy’s Best Sleepers and Biggest Reaches (at Both RB and WR) Reside on the Same NFL Team?
Shawn Siegele
June 13, 2023
Could 2022’s top WR breakout candidate and the best Zero RB option come from the same team? Shawn Siegele debates the best way to play a controversial offense. When RotoViz subscribers talk about crafting a roster, they’re usually thinking about a mix of structural drafting at the squad level and contingency-based drafting at the player level. They’re building their rosters out from back to front…...
Will Ty Chandler and DeWayne McBride Emerge as Zero RB Stars After Dalvin Cook’s Release?
Shawn Siegele
June 8, 2023
Shawn Siegele examines the fantasy fallout from Dalvin Cook’s release and asks whether Ty Chandler or DeWayne McBride could become the 2023 league winner as Alexander Mattison disappoints. It’s been an open secret that the Minnesota Vikings would move on from Cook this summer. The former star generated 101.5 fantasy points over expectation (FPOE) across the 2019 and 2020 seasons, but that dropped into the…...
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