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 to the Week 4 edition of The 3 and Out! On a weekly basis, we’ll use the RotoViz tools, my weekly research, and some of my favorite resources to find key pieces of information relating to teams, players, and…...

The Process Before I look at Week 5, it is important to see if my process was successful. Here is a recap of last week’s recommendations. If you need a refresher on what to look for when analyzing defenses, read the first few paragraphs of Streaming Defenses — Week 2 article. Big-time players make big-time plays! That’s exactly what we got from our top two…...

The Ultimate 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 4. Check out Shawn Siegele’s companion piece on NFC backfields. Almost every fantasy team can use a breakout RB, whether they were drafted as a Zero-RB squad or not. The Ultimate Zero RB Watch List helps to…...

This season, Zachary Krueger will use the RotoViz Screener Tool to evaluate player red-zone opportunity. Understanding how teams deploy their red-zone personnel, and who they give red-zone opportunities to, can offer a valuable edge over your opponents. This weekly Red Zone Report aims to give you that exact edge. This season I’ve committed to doing a weekly breakdown of player red-zone production. Considering that the…...

Welcome to the game environment series. This series will provide several weekly games to target and fade, based on macro-level factors that impact fantasy production. For more on these factors, click here. We recommend using this in conjunction with our micro-level analysis, including the buy low report, the strength in numbers series, our quarterback, kicker, tight end, and defense streaming articles, and the slate of…...

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…...

Shawn Siegele looks at big games from Ronald Jones and Latavius Murray, worries about the sluggish performances from the Rams and Cardinals, and examines whether it’s time to buy or sell a variety of deep options. Enjoy the ride as he breaks down the workload for NFC backfields ahead of Week 5. Our goal with the Zero RB Watch List is to help you locate RB…...

The Process Before I look at Week 5, it is important to see 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 first few paragraphs of Streaming Kicker – Why Streaming is Winning article. Name/Team Stat Line Points Week 4 Rank Jason Myers, Seattle Seahawks…...

QB rankings and streaming advice for Week 5 of the 2020 fantasy football season. Editor’s note: As of Wednesday morning, as this was getting published, word broke that more Patriots and Titans have tested positive, leading to uncertainty on how the NFL will move forward. The theme for Week 4 was an all too familiar, inevitable consequence of pretending this season is like seasons past. COVID-19…...

Dave Caban reviews the RB and WR Game Level Similarity Projections (GLSP) to provide a snapshot of expected opportunity and touchdown scoring potential. Welcome to our fifth 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,…...

In this edition of Win the Waiver Wire, Curtis Patrick shares his top waiver targets for Week 5 in seasonal fantasy football leagues. Whether by injury, snap count, or role, every fantasy owner can look at their squad and identify a player who disappointed relative to expectations in Week 4. We’ve also entered bye-week season, which means waiver activity will carry greater importance for most…...

Welcome back to Strength in Numbers, a weekly column that breaks down the most actionable takeaways from every NFL weekend in a concise, numbers-filled format. We’re now a quarter of the way through the season, meaning we’re getting a much better feel for how things are going to play out the rest of the year. More notably, the unusual circumstances surrounding this season made an appearance…...

We are a quarter of the way through the season. I did not think we’d get here, I admit. But as readers of my work for a number of years will tell you, I’ve been wrong before. In the words and images below you will find all the information you could ever want about the tight end position from Week 4, plus helpful information moving…...

All season long Zachary Krueger will go in-depth with all of the key wide receiver performances. Providing weekly targets, air yards breakdowns, and fantasy points over expectation trends, he’ll help you dominate the waiver wire and make the best start/sit decisions in your upcoming fantasy football matchups. All offseason, the 2020 rookie wide receiver class was discussed as perhaps the best class of the last…...