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 8 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 Although I’m filling in for Stefan this week, I’ll be using the same selection process that he has been using all season. In short, we’re looking for kickers who are owned in less than 50% of ESPN leagues, teams with high Vegas point totals, high passing yardage offenses, and potentially low red-zone touchdown rates. This is described more in-depth in Stefan’s Streaming Kickers…...

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…...

The Process Before I look at Week 9, 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. That’s the name of the game, sometimes our defenses give us very high weeks and sometimes…...

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 8. Check out Shawn Siegele’s companion piece on the NFC. 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…...

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 ninth 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,…...

QB rankings and streaming advice for Week 9 of the 2020 fantasy football season. Rookies continued to break records and make headlines through Week 8. Justin Herbert joined Deshaun Watson as the only rookie quarterbacks in NFL history with 3-plus touchdown passes in four consecutive games. Joe Burrow reached 221 completions on the season, the most by a player in his first eight career games in…...

Shawn Siegele examines the historic pace from Alvin Kamara, praises the unheralded talent of Jamaal Williams, and tries to understand the thinking in Detroit. Shawn also recommends a few dark horse pickups as he breaks down the workload for NFC backfields ahead of Week 9. As Blair Andrews and I write the Ultimate Zero RB Watch List, our goal is to help you locate RB breakouts…...

Woah, we’re halfway there, as Bon Jovi once famously warbled. While I’m certain he wasn’t referring to Week 9 of a fantasy football season, the sentiment is just the same. We have reached the midway point of the 2020 regular season, and lo and behold, the tight end position is just as toxic as ever. Don’t believe me? We have all the data you need…...

Welcome back to Strength in Numbers, a weekly article in which we go over the most actionable takeaways from every NFL weekend in a concise, numbers-heavy format. Week 8 had a lot of fun games, most notably the Steelers vs. Ravens battle atop the AFC North. We also saw Tua Tagovailoa‘s first start, Justin Herbert‘s continued excellence (and then the Chargers staying on-brand and choking it away), and…...

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. Unfortunately for those who dropped serious FAAB on Rashard Higgins, Week 8 was just not his week. Nelson Agholor didn’t…...

In this edition of Win the Waiver Wire, Curtis Patrick shares his top waiver targets for Week 9 in seasonal fantasy football leagues. Whether through injury, snap count, or role, every fantasy owner can look at their squad and identify a player who disappointed relative to expectations in Week 8. We’ve also entered bye-week season, which means waiver activity will carry greater importance for most…...

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. Buy Noah Fant The opening half of the Denver Broncos’ season has been mixed with highs and lows. Quarterback Drew Lock entered the season as the…...

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…...