Injuries have created some intriguing opportunities to either acquire or unload massive amounts of risk in the form of first and second-round running backs and wide receivers. Let’s examine a few ways to exploit these situations based on your team’s needs. QUARTERBACK Buy Philip Rivers As the pre-season QB16, there’s a decent chance that the team with Rivers has a viable alternative and will flip…...

Shawn Siegele looks at wide receiver win rates from BestBall10s, locates the heroes and villains through Week 6, and discusses the ramifications for roster construction. You can get lost for hours in Mike Beers’ Player Win Rates tool. Or at least that’s what happened to me again today. I rarely have more fun writing an article. Last week we looked at some of the most…...

The 3 and Out uses a number of RotoViz Apps to uncover significant workload changes; league, team, and player-specific trends; and hidden but powerful statistics. Welcome back to the 3 and Out! This week, we’ll be dividing the season into two equal parts, Weeks 1-3 and Weeks 4-6, and identifying players with the largest changes in workload as well as the teams with the biggest…...

Just when it looked like Matt Prater might lead Detroit to a five-field-goal victory over Green Bay on Monday night, an unexpected hero emerged for the Packers. With Davante Adams out and his high-profile proteges hurt or struggling, Allen Lazard hauled in a 35-yard touchdown to narrow the gap. He then pulled in three more passes for 30 yards on the final drive, a drive…...

The Zero RB Watch List provides analysis for Zero RB and RB-heavy owners alike. Blair Andrews examines the running back workloads for every AFC backfield from Week 6. I’ll be filling in for Ryan Collinsworth this week on the AFC side, so prepare for way more Patrick Laird content than you ever thought possible.((Wait, the Dolphins lost to Washington, and Laird still didn’t get an…...

Giana Pacinelli provides QB streaming options, 2-QB plays, and overall QB rankings for Week 7 of the 2019 fantasy football season. I’ve returned from the wild (literally) and I want to thank Shawn Siegele for holding down the QB streaming fort in my absence. I will try to maintain the enthusiasm he delivered to this column the last two weeks while I was on my honeymoon. …...

Rant Forgive me, but why in the world is Stephen Gostkowski still owned in 21% of Yahoo leagues? If you have him, please cut him and pick up your favorite running back handcuff, even if the starter is not on your team. Or check out my Do Not Cut List and see if one of those gems is available. You are wasting a roster spot…....

The Zero RB Watch List provides analysis for Zero RB and RB-heavy owners alike. Shawn Siegele examines the running back workloads for every NFC backfield from Week 6. I’m filling in for Ryan Collinsworth this week and immediately get to discuss hot button players like Miles Sanders and Darrell Henderson. We’ll use the RotoViz Screener and NFL Stats Explorer to dive into the advanced stats…...

The Strength of Schedule Streaming app allows you to see which players have the easiest or most difficult upcoming schedules, a potentially league-winning edge that gives you the opportunity to buy players right before they explode in plus matchups. Welcome back to the Buy Low Report. As usual, we will combine insight from the SoS Streaming App and the RotoViz Screener to identify players who…...

Week 6 was another week where almost all the players we listed last week went off! It is almost as if regression is a real thing. This week it was Curtis Samuel, Robby Anderson, Miles Sanders, and even Ronald Jones. Jones saw very little work with a terrible game script, but he showed his potential with a great cut move before getting into the end…...

If you spend any time reading RotoViz, eventually you’ll hear us talking about expected points. Expected points (EP) are the number of fantasy points that a target or carry should score based on game situation — down, distance, and field position. In other words, expected points allow us to transform raw opportunity, such as carries and targets, directly into fantasy points. From there we can…...

The prospects of success for the Week 6 tight end streamers were slim going into the games. They got a hell of a lot slimmer with the news that Jets TE Chris Herndon had injured himself working out prior to his return from suspension, and wouldn’t actually play in Week 6. Then, the games happened. Jeremy Sprinkle posted just 4.4 PPR points against the Dolphins. Gerald…...

Week 6 saw the 2019 Stefon Diggs coming out party, as the Vikings wide receiver torched the Eagles secondary to the tune of seven receptions, 167 yards, and three touchdowns. The 43.5 PPR points he scored on Sunday more than doubled his entire 2019 production. Tyreek Hill also made his return after suffering a shoulder injury in Week 1. His 25 PPR points on Sunday…...

Waiver Wire Dumpster Dives takes you beyond the obvious plays and helps you find undervalued gems for deep leagues. Bye weeks are creeping up and as that happens weekly fill-ins are becoming more and more important.  With high fantasy capital teams like the Panthers, Browns, Steelers and Buccaneers all on their bye weeks, a lot of teams will be scrambling to fill in some spots…....

Shawn Siegele looks at the most explosive wide receiver performances of Week 6, including a 43-point eruption from Stefon Diggs. After one of the most epic weeks in fantasy football history, Week 6 offered a season-low three WRs reaching double digits in fantasy points over expectation (FPOE). Stefon Diggs Through five weeks, Stefon Diggs was WR52. After his 43.5-point explosion in Week 6, he moves…...

Veteran high stakes fantasy football player Monty Phan chronicles his season. I’m taking the easy way out this week: notes from a full Sunday of NFL football, which, for me, started at around 8 a.m., because 6:30 a.m. is way too early to get up on a Sunday:[1]Stupid early London games. To how many of you does this pattern apply? Week 1: D.J. Chark scores…...

Week 6 is almost here, and the injuries on your fantasy football rosters are likely piling up. Below are some of my favorite Week 6 flex plays to get you through some challenging weeks, as big names like Todd Gurley and Davante Adams find their way to your benches. Michael Gallup, WR, Dallas Cowboys The Dallas Cowboys have made a concerted effort to open up…...