With the season almost upon us, I’ll look at the various backfields across the NFL. Let’s look at the AFC East and West. Welcome home, football! AFC East Buffalo Bills Devin Singletary Devin Singletary started this offseason as a surefire starter by ADP, but gamers have cooled on his outlook. Singletary’s median range of outcomes appeared to have him locked in as an RB2 this…...

This article is part of “The Worksheet” from Rich Hribar, one of the fantasy industry’s most-read early week articles that provides unique statistics and expectations on every player for every game. Portions of “The Worksheet” will appear on RotoViz every week throughout the 2020 season. Read the full article at Sharp Football Analysis. Cowboys @ Rams Dallas Rank @ LA Rams Rank -3   Spread…...

Dave Caban reviews the RB and WR GLSP to provide a snapshot of expected opportunity and touchdown scoring potential. Welcome to our first RB/WR GLSP review of the season! In this weekly article, we’ll take a quick look at expected opportunity and touchdown scoring potential using estimates created by our GLSP tool. To learn more about the process of building GLSP projections, what they are,…...

Let’s face it, the kicker position in fantasy football is frustrating and becoming less prominent. However, for many of us rostering a kicker remains a necessary evil. It is for that reason that I am bringing back the Streaming Kicker series this season. You have enough on your plate with waiver claims, setting lineups, and talking smack to your rivals – let me take care…...

QB rankings and streaming advice for Week 1 of the 2020 fantasy football season. Generally, football doesn’t sneak up on me. Then again, there isn’t too much about this year that  we can consider  “general.” Nevertheless, I am genuinely surprised and grateful to be writing a fantasy football article at this very moment. It seems too good to be true and, frankly, this year, it…...

Dave Caban published this article in Week 8 of the 2019 season. It’s being republished to provide a refresher or overview of the RotoViz Weekly Game Level Similarity Projection process. Long-time readers are undoubtedly familiar with RotoViz’s Game Level Similarity Projection (GLSP) process but for those of you that are new to the site, this post will walk you through the process and give some…...

There were times when many doubted we would ever get here. But finally, after the most topsy-turvy offseason in NFL history, Week 1 is upon us. This means, of course, to paraphrase the late, great Ricardo Montalban, we have entered Fantasy Island. While most drafts have only been completed recently, this doesn’t necessarily mean that fantasy managers are ecstatic with the players on their teams…....

Shawn Siegele covers the fantasy winners and losers in 2020 free agency, and then dives into his favorite sleepers in the aftermath. Despite the limited moves at wide receiver, 2020 free agency hasn’t been a disappointment. Last week I discussed the shock waves emanating through Superflex leagues, and today we move to the marquee positions with a look at Todd Gurley, Melvin Gordon, and David…...

The Green Packers and San Francisco 49ers square off in the NFC Championship Game as the Tennessee Titans try to spring another Arrowhead upset and knock off Kansas City in the AFC. Shawn Siegele uses the Team Splits app to examine the defensive matchups. Last week we used two of our most popular tools to dive into some crazy splits for playoff teams. Today we use…...

Davante Adams caught eight passes for 160 yards and two scores as Green Bay held off Seattle to advance to the NFC Championship. Despite a 2019 campaign plagued by injury, Adams could be the second wide receiver off the board in 2020 fantasy drafts. In a divisional round full of fireworks, a host of big names came in at the top of the fantasy points…...

The Houston Texans upset the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium in Week 6. This Sunday they look to do the same in the divisional round of the playoffs. Shawn Siegele uses the Team Splits app to explore two crucial players who could make the difference. This week we’re using two of our most popular tools to dive into fun stats for playoff teams. Yesterday…...

With the Tennessee Titans hoping to spring the big upset this weekend at Baltimore, Shawn Siegele goes under the hood with the Games Splits app to analyze the impact of Ryan Tannehill. The Game Splits app is one of our most popular offerings. It allows users to create splits based on teammates, defenses, game situations, and much more. While we want to keep in mind…...

The FFPC Playoff Challenge is a contest playoff tournament with 6,500 teams and over $1.1 million in prizes and a $500,000 grand prize. The rules of the contest are simple — as you can see in Hasan Rahim’s 2018 write up: There is no draft, each owner simply selects a roster of 10 players (1-QB, 2-RB, 2-WR, 1-TE, 2-Flex, 1-K, 1-D; Flex can be RB, WR…...

Shawn Siegele uses the Best Ball Win Rates tool to hand out awards to the top performances in six categories.  Each week I’ve been using our Best Ball tools to evaluate a different fantasy position. We’ve already begun grading the Best Ball Workshop, a series of how-to strategy articles built on the insights from Mike Beers’ Roster Construction Explorer. Today we pause to hand out some…...