Patriots @ Seahawks New England Rank @ Seattle Rank 4   Spread -4   20.5   Implied Total 24.5   21.0 18 Points/Gm 38.0 3 11.0 2 Points All./Gm 25.0 19 63.0 22 Plays/Gm 58.0 29 58.0 4 Opp. Plays/Gm 77.0 29 66.7% 1 Rush% 34.5% 27 33.3% 32 Pass% 65.5% 6 46.6% 22 Opp. Rush % 27.3% 2 53.5% 11 Opp. Pass % 72.7%…...

From the hosts of the critically acclaimed podcast The Solis Report — the No. 1 late-night show in fantasy — comes a weekly column, chopping up the week’s news and talkin’ a few trades. John   Week 1 in the books and we’re on to Cincinnati! Devin   Yessir. Folks, we’ve got a brand new show out this weekend. Hope you will check it out. Talkin’…...

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. Falcons @ Cowboys Atlanta Rank @ Dallas Rank 5   Spread -5   23.75  …...

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 first 2020 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…...

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. You don’t need years of fantasy experience to understand the annoyance of vultures. We’ve…...

Welcome to the game environment series. This weekly series will provide several games to target and fade, based on macro-level factors that impact fantasy production. 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 DFS analysis we provide. A quick primer…...

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 NFC backfield from Week 1. Check out Shawn Siegele’s companion piece on AFC 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…...

Shawn Siegele looks at auspicious starts from Jonathan Taylor and Clyde Edwards-Helaire, worries about the high-value touches for Austin Ekeler, Joe Mixon, and Nick Chubb, and spotlights an encouraging trend in Buffalo as he details the running back workloads for every AFC backfield ahead of Week 2. Our goal with the Zero RB Watch List is to help you locate RB breakouts and waiver adds…...

The Process Before I look at Week 2, 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 1 Rank Rodrigo Blankenship, Indianapolis Colts…...

Defense is a high-variance position, which has implications for the sort of teams and game environments we want to target. Rather than chasing low-scoring opponents, which are harder to predict than we tend to think, we want to chase turnovers. This means we never want to target slow-paced games, because we won’t have many opportunities for defensive scoring. Instead, target defensive units that will face…...

QB rankings and streaming advice for Week 2 of the 2020 fantasy football season. For the most part, Week 1 went as planned. All players tested negative, and the NFL season kicked off without a hitch. Of course, the product on the field wasn’t nearly as predictable. There were more than a few milestones broken by quarterbacks to open the season. Josh Allen had his first-ever…...

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…...