The bye weeks are hitting in earnest now, and those summer sleepers are getting harder and harder to dedicate roster space to. Now is when the front-runners can leverage those Ws in the bank to fill their benches with the Zero RB darlings who have yet to blossom. Let’s take a look at some Week 5 fantasy trades that can position your team for success…...

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. Let’s pick up where we left off yesterday and look at key data points related to the teams we’ve yet to highlight. Philadelphia Eagles Jordan Howard eviscerated the Packers in Week 4, scoring…...

Welcome to Week 5 of the Ultimate Zero RB Watchlist: AFC Edition. The Watch List helps you find running back targets for your Zero RB teams before anyone else even knows about them. We’ll take a close look at depth charts around the league in order to find the next-man-up situations that nobody is talking about … yet. Throughout the season, we’ll monitor playing time…...

Shawn Siegele looks at the best QB streaming options for Week 5, presents a deep superflex option, and offers a sneaky 2-QB trade target. I’m filling in for Giana Pacinelli as she enjoys her vacation. I love the format for her piece and won’t sully it by trying to replicate it here. Instead, I’m going to focus on a couple of my obsessions – the…...

The Process Before I look to Week 4 it is important to observe if the selection process was effective. Here is a recap of last week’s recommendations. If you need a refresher on what to look for when analyzing kickers, read the Week 2 Fantasy Football Kicker Streaming article.  Name, Team Stat Line Week 4 Position Rank 1 Adam Vinatieri, Indianapolis Colts FG 1/2 XP…...

Welcome to Week 5 of the Ultimate Zero RB Watchlist: NFC Edition. The Watch List helps you find running back targets for your Zero RB teams before anyone else even knows about them. We’ll take a close look at depth charts around the league in order to find the next-man-up situations that nobody is talking about … yet. Throughout the season, we’ll monitor playing time…...

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. Let’s pick up where we left off last week and look at three key data points related to the teams we’ve yet to highlight.((The three data points will be a very loose guideline…...

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 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…...

In his last week as a viable streamer, Will Dissly did us all proud in Week 4. With 18.7 PPR points against the ever so tight end friendly Cardinals, Dissly finished Week 4 as the overall TE2. Dissly is now owned in 67.3% of ESPN leagues, making him out of our reach for the time being. But I’ll forget what he did over the last…...

Welcome to the Week 4 edition of the RB Market Share Report. In this column, I report usage statistics and advanced metrics for all NFL running backs. I will also summarize RB workload statistics for all 32 NFL teams and highlight key trends as applicable. I will publish updates to this column each week following the conclusion of Monday night’s games. As more games are…...

Last week I took the time to explain why there was no need to give in to the panic surrounding Leonard Fournette, Davante Adams, and Stefon Diggs.  These three combined for 533 yards, and yes, zero touchdowns. It is easy to forget that the season is long and we are only a quarter of the way through the season. Players will regress to their mean,…...

Waiver Wire Dumpster Dives takes you beyond the obvious plays and helps you find undervalued gems for deep leagues. As bye-weeks start to pile up and valuable waiver targets dry up, things start to get a little hairy this time of the year. Metrics and data help to clear our line of vision though so can still sniff out a few valuable pickups. It’s getting…...

For the third week in a row, the number of wide receivers seeing double-digit targets dropped. But this was the most dramatic drop off of the lot. Fifteen WRs commanded at least 10 targets in Week 3. This week, that number fell to only eight. Here’s the full list of target leaders. Double-Digit Targets in Week 4 QUICK THOUGHTS Cooper Kupp’s recovery from an ACL…...

Shawn Siegele looks at the most explosive wide receiver performances of Week 4 and praises a sudden outburst from the Titans passing game. The top WR performances in fantasy points over expectation (reFPOE) didn’t come from the usual suspects this week. Instead we had two former first-round busts, last week’s buy-low candidate, a third receiver from a supposedly run-first squad, and an injured player whose…...