The list of the most targeted wide receivers in Week 8 contained a host of familiar names, many of whom enjoyed banner weeks in both reality and fantasy football. Mike Evans of the Buccaneers had his second game this season with 190-plus receiving yards. Julian Edelman had his first game of the season with at least two touchdowns. Julio Jones proved that he doesn’t need…...

The Process Before I look at Week 9, it is important to see whether 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 Dan Bailey, Minnesota Vikings FG 4/4 XP…...

We are staring at the middle of the season and we are rapidly approaching bye-pocalypse, roster construction matters now more than ever. Look at your team and determine what you need: do you need to win every game to get in the playoffs, or can you sacrifice a week in order to keep players on bye weeks and submit sub-optimal lineups?  Roster Construction If you are…...

Waiver Wire Dumpster Dives takes you beyond the obvious plays and helps you find undervalued gems for deep leagues. Four more teams are on their bye weeks and everyone is feeling the pinch. As waiver wires thin out, some GMs will make desperation trades to fill in their roster this week. It’s a great time to offer up a two-for-one deal that nets you the better…...

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…...

After a grim Week 7, Sunday offered a much better scoring climate. Several RotoViz priority targets put up big numbers. Shawn Siegele breaks down the monster fantasy performances from Mike Evans, Cooper Kupp, Kenny Golladay and the rest of the wide receivers stars. With help from the Screener and the NFL Stat Explorer, we take a closer look at the wide receivers who created the most fantasy points…...

Veteran high stakes fantasy football player Monty Phan chronicles his season. When you’re already thin at running back and forced to start Kenyan Drake, this is infuriating to read, especially when it’s 30 minutes after the early Sunday games have already started: I’m told trade talks are progressing involving #Dolphins RB Kenyan Drake, who won’t travel for tomorrow’s game against the #Steelers. — Tom Pelissero…...

There’s an enormous amount of turbulence in the league with the trade deadline approaching on October 29. We’ve already seen a few dominoes fall, but it would be no surprise to see more with the tanking battle including more teams than the Dolphins would’ve hoped for. Miami might even start paying cash for other teams to take their starters. In the midst of the turmoil,…...

Dave Caban reviews the RotoViz process used to build weekly projections and explains a recent tweak that will impact the GLSP numbers on a weekly basis. Long-time readers are undoubtedly familiar with RotoViz’s Game Level Similarity Projection (GLSP) process but we made a tweak this week that is worth taking a couple of minutes to absorb. For those of you that are new to the…...

Shawn Siegele looks at five of the biggest Week 7 risers in BestBall10 win rates, including a wide receiver who continues to re-write the record books. You can get lost for hours in Mike Beers’ Player Win Rates tool. Or at least that’s what happened to me last week … and again today. A week ago we looked at some of the most important WR performances…...