Orthopedic surgeon and auction expert, Dr. Jeffrey Budoff, provides injury analysis for fantasy football owners during the 2019 NFL season. Today, he looks at the patellofemoral dislocation suffered by Patrick Mahomes. Patrick Mahomes, arguably the best quarterback in the NFL, left Week 7’s Thursday night game with a patellofemoral (kneecap) dislocation. This means that his kneecap dislocated out of its groove towards the outside of…...

Jack Miller has done an excellent job this season using the Strength of Schedule Streaming tool to help you buy players before they benefited from easier schedules. In this companion piece, Shawn Siegele suggests a few sell options to make those purchases. Week 7 of the 2019 NFL season was among my five worst weeks in 12 years of high stakes competition. Three of my…...

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 back to The 3 and Out! In this week’s edition, we’re going to look at, on a team by team basis, fantasy points scored, snap percentages, opportunity shares, and expected points. This information will be presented in tables that…...

Giana Pacinelli provides QB streaming options, 2-QB plays, and overall QB rankings for Week 8 of the 2019 fantasy football season. Week 7 reminded all of us that it’s Aaron Rodgers’ world and we’re just living in it. Rodgers became the fastest quarterback to 350 touchdown passes in NFL history this past week, putting up 427 yards and six touchdowns (one rushing). And that’s despite his third-straight…...

The Process Before I look at Week 8, 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 Stephen Hauschka, Buffalo Bills FG 3/3 XP…...

Blair Andrews examines the running back workloads for every NFC backfield ahead of Week 8. Almost every fantasy team can use a breakout RB, whether their owners drafted them as Zero-RB squads or not. The Zero RB Watch List helps to find these breakout stars before they hit. But it also helps you understand which of the high-profile backs you should be buying and selling…...

Shawn Siegele examines the running back workloads for every AFC backfield ahead of Week 8. Our goal with the Zero RB Watch List is to help you locate RB breakouts and waiver adds before they happen, but this column isn’t just for Zero RB owners. We’re just as focused on the high-profile backs. Understanding workloads is key to making tough redraft and dynasty trades. The…...

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. Welcome back to the Buy Low Report. As usual, we will combine insight from the SoS Streaming App and the RotoViz Screener to identify players who…...

One of our streamers scored 15.7 PPR points in week 7! This is not a drill! It’s also not something we should get too excited about, as the player in question was Hunter Henry. I stressed last week that Henry would be a one-week streaming option before entering the realm of every week starter. This has happened, and if you didn’t land him, you need…...

Week 7 was not quite the week I had hoped for. Sure, Joe Mixon scored, but he also only had four total yards on 11 touches. Meanwhile, Brandin Cooks saw seven targets but only converted them into four receptions for 59 yards. I am still recommending you hold these players, Mixon somehow falls a bit in a week where he scored a touchdown, but he…...

A host of familiar faces dominated the wide receiver landscape in Week 7 of the 2019 NFL season. In all, 12 players commanded double-digit targets, with Allen Robinson of the Bears leading the way with 16. Here’s the full list of WRs who commanded at least 10 targets in the last week of NFL action. Double-Digit Targets in Week 7 QUICK THOUGHTS Tyler Boyd has…...

Waiver Wire Dumpster Dives takes you beyond the obvious plays and helps you find undervalued gems for deep leagues. Only two teams are on their bye in Week 8, so many GM’s aren’t feeling the pinch like they have been the past few weeks. But it is never too early to start scouring for deep waiver opportunities. And for those of us in deeper leagues,…...

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…...

In a week where many of the highest-profile fantasy weapons were on the bye, a slew of early injuries crushed hopes, and wet weather in the Northeast put a damper on passing games, Marvin Jones and Marquez Valdes-Scantling headlined a surprise cohort at the top of the reFPOE leaderboard. With help from the Screener and the NFL Stat Explorer, we take a closer look at…...