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. Rams at 49ers LA Rams Rank @ San Francisco Rank -3.5   Spread 3.5  …...

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. Ravens at Eagles Baltimore Rank @ Philadelphia Rank -7.5   Spread 7.5   27.0  …...

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 5 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…...

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 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 5. Check out Shawn Siegele’s companion piece on the AFC. 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 sixth 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,…...

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. Last week I took a look at red zone performances through the first quarter of the…...

The Process Before I look at Week 6, 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. Week 5 wasn’t as fruitful as Week 4 when it came to the touchdown department,…...

Shawn Siegele looks at a big game from Justin Jackson, laments the instant injury to Darrynton Evans, and mentions five deep options who could be in line for more work. Enjoy the ride as he breaks down the workload for AFC backfields ahead of Week 6. Our goal with the Zero RB Watch List is to help you locate RB breakouts and waiver adds before…...

The Process Before I look at Week 6, 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 5 Rank Ka’imi Fairbairn, Houston Texans…...

QB rankings and streaming advice for Week 6 of the 2020 fantasy football season. Whether it was COVID, injuries, or off days, Week 5 was another week of quarterback shuffles. Joe Flacco was the starter for the New York Jets in place of the injured Sam Darnold, completing 18 of 33 passes for 195 yards and a score in a grimacing performance. Kyle Allen was 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…...

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. For the first time this season, an NFL game will be played on Tuesday because of COVID-19, meaning we actually aren’t completely through Week 5. It remains to be seen if the NFL will have to take even more drastic measures…...

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. As we head into the second quarter of the 2020 NFL season, it’s safe to say that unpredictability…...

The Week 6 tight end landscape looks horrible. There, I said it. The teams on a bye, the roster percentages of serviceable TEs, everything is conspiring to make this week look ugly. However, do not be too downhearted. After showing off all the relevant TE data you could hope to see from Week 5 and the season as a whole, I have three streaming options you…...