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…...

The injuries are hitting fast and furious at this point, and plenty of middle of the pack teams need to be thinking of one-for-two deals to bolster the depth of their starting roster. Let’s take a look at some of the best options to target in what can be win-win trades for both teams. QUARTERBACK Buy Jacoby Brissett Brissett still doesn’t get a ton of respect,…...

Tomorrow’s Moves Today uses the Strength of Schedule Streaming App to identify team positional units with favorable/unfavorable upcoming schedules and players on related teams that should be targeted or avoided. Welcome to the Week 6 edition of Tomorrow’s Moves Today! On a weekly basis, we’ll look ahead to find positional units with favorable upcoming schedules. Likewise, we’ll identify positional units that stand before an oncoming gauntlet. The…...

Mike Beers has added the 2019 BestBall10s Player Win Rates Tracker to his suite of advanced best ball apps. This offseason RotoViz users deployed the FFPC Command Center, the multi-format Roster Construction Explorer, and the Exposures and ADP tools to plot strategy and hone tactics for the 2019 season. Now you can track the progress of your individual players and see how they’re contributing to…...

Welcome to Week 6 of the Ultimate Zero RB Watchlist. The Watchlist 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 and usage to identify…...

Shawn Siegele looks at the best QB streaming options for Week 6, presents a deep superflex option, and offers a sneaky 2-QB trade target. I’m filling in for Giana Pacinelli during her vacation and will again be focusing on the Game Level Similarity Projections. With the Week 6 matchups in mind, we can pull up the GLSP numbers to see how similar QBs have played…...

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. Before we get into the heart of this week’s article, I want to point out that we launched the NFL Pace App last week. It will quickly become a favorite for our DFS players, but owners in all formats should play around…...

The Process Before I look at Week 6, 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 Jake Elliott, Philadelphia Eagles FG 1/1 XP…...

We are somehow already through five weeks of the 2019 NFL season. There are multiple breakout players that are here to stay, and known commodities that seem to have faded to fantasy irrelevance. This is The Good, the Bad, and the Oh So Ugly from Week 5. The Good 1) Chris Godwin, through five weeks of the 2019 NFL season, is the overall WR1 in fantasy. His…...

Week 5 was an absolute disaster. I am big enough to admit this. It was a week where Darren Fells and Ryan Izzo commanded a total of four targets, yet both finished inside the top eight PPR performers. As for the three players I recommended last week, Jesus wept … let’s get this over with. Jimmy Graham was TE18 with 7.1 points. Tyler Eifert amassed the…...

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…...

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…...

It was a bonanza week for players like Will Fuller and Michael Thomas in Week 5, with both players eclipsing 40 PPR points. Fuller actually posted the ninth greatest PPR outing by a WR of all time. This was a welcome boom week after Fuller amassed just 32.3 points in his first four games of the 2019 season. I’m not sure how many more times he’ll…...

Welcome to the Week 5 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 played,…...