The Process Before I look to Week 14 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 13 Rank 1 Jake Elliott, Philadelphia Eagles FG 3/4 XP 2/2…...

Blair Andrews examines the running back workloads for the most contentious NFC backfields ahead of Week 14. 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…...

Shawn Siegele uses the Best Ball Win Rates tool to examine the best and worst best-ball performances at the RB position, including standout results from Christian McCaffrey, Austin Ekeler, and Leonard Fournette. Over the past month we’ve detailed the running backs, wide receivers, and tight ends, while also evaluating our structural approach to the 2019 season. Today we start over with the RB position and…...

The 3 and Out uses several 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! Hopefully, you made the playoffs and are primed to take home a championship trophy! With 13 weeks — and for many the fantasy regular season — behind us let’s place some context around the performance…...

Giana Pacinelli provides QB streaming options, 2-QB plays, and overall QB rankings for Week 14 of the 2019 fantasy football season. As quickly as the fantasy football season came upon us, it’s quickly fleeting. Some leagues are starting the playoffs this week, while others are in a critical do-or-die situation. If you’ve made it this far, and are still in contention, celebrate the small victory but…...

We have reached the business end of the fantasy season, with many leagues beginning their playoffs this week. Now is not the time to trust to some scrub at the tight end spot. Of course, it is getting increasingly difficult to find genuine assets among the ranks of the streamers. But despite this, these names are players that should genuinely be an asset to you…...

Shawn Siegele profiles Austin Ekeler’s stardom, Devin Singletary’s breakout, and Darwin Thompson’s opportunity in his look at the AFC running back committees ahead of Week 14. The RotoViz Screener and NFL Stat Explorer provide a smorgasbord of data as we dive into the advanced stats for every team. Much of our focus is on how RBs score their points. We use expected points (EP) and fantasy points over…...

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…...

We are back once again with our weekly look at the wide receivers who saw the most targets in the last week of NFL action. 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 13 QUICK THOUGHTS Regular readers of this article will remember that after Week 9 I noted that…...

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…...

Waiver Wire Dumpster Dives takes you beyond the obvious plays and helps you find undervalued gems for deep leagues. As most leagues kick off their playoffs starting in Week 14, this is one of my favorite weeks to write this column. This is where I annually look at cheap keepers or dynasty trade targets. Let’s face it, if you are in the playoffs, hopefully, you…...

Shawn Siegele looks at all the top wide receiver performances from Week 13, including surprising explosions from Kenny Golladay, James Washington, and Courtland Sutton. The Lions, Steelers, and Broncos collectively moved to their third quarterback options for the 2019 season. The results were far better than expected. David Blough, Devlin Hodges, and Drew Lock breathed life into moribund offenses and each placed a WR on…...

Monty Phan wraps up the weekend of NFL action. Let’s get something straight: Detroit rookie David Blough’s last name rhymes with “cow,” not “dough.” I get it, a lot of folks think it’d be funnier if it was pronounced “blow,” because, frankly, that’s what everyone expected an undrafted, third-string quarterback starting his first career game against the Bears defense would do. Except that nothing was…...