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 2019’s first edition of The 3 and Out! To start off the season, we’ll be looking at three interesting data points for every team. In the interest of full disclosure, “three” will be more of a guideline. The…...

Welcome to Week 3 of the Ultimate Zero RB Watchlist: AFC Edition. The Watch List helps you find running back targets for your Zero RB teams before anyone else even knows about them. We’ll take a close look at depth charts around the league in order to find the next-man-up situations that nobody is talking about … yet. Throughout the season, we’ll monitor playing time…...

Giana Pacinell provides QB streaming options, 2-QB plays, and overall QB rankings and for Week 3 of the 2019 fantasy football season. Week 2 was a very costly fantasy week — Ben Roethlisberger suffered a right elbow injury which required surgery, marking the end to his season and Drew Brees will be sidelined for at least six weeks with surgery on his right thumb. On Monday…...

The Process Before I look toward Week 3 it is important to observe 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 2 Position Rank 1 Brett Maher, Dallas Cowboys FG 1/1 XP…...

Welcome to Week 3 of the Ultimate Zero RB Watchlist: NFC Edition. The Watch List helps you find running back targets for your Zero RB teams before anyone else even knows about them. We’ll take a close look at depth charts around the league in order to find the next-man-up situations that nobody is talking about … yet. Throughout the season, we’ll monitor playing time…...

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…...

Kyler Murray currently leads the league in passing attempts and has thrown for 657 yards. Unfortunately, he’s struggled to find the end zone through the air and has left fantasy owners disappointed with only 17 rushing yards. The rookie phenom sits at QB13 through two weeks. All that is about to change. A Frantic Pace in Passing Attempts In Kliff Kingsbury’s desert air raid, Murray…...

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. In Week 2, the Buy Low Report tabbed Christian Kirk, D.J. Moore, Chris Godwin, and Calvin Ridley as players to buy. This week, we will once again…...

It didn’t take long, but Week 3 marks the first visit to the tight end wasteland of the 2019 season. The options are not great, especially given Darren Waller’s ascension to “every week starter” status following his TE8 finish in Week 2. For the second week in a row, Waller came to my rescue as the only one of my three suggestions to actually bear…...

Welcome to the Week 2 edition of the RB Market Share Report. In this column, I report usage statistics and advanced metrics for all NFL running backs. I will also summarize RB workload statistics for all 32 NFL teams and highlight key trends as applicable. I will publish updates to this column each week following the conclusion of Monday night’s games. As more games are…...

Week 1 saw a whopping 21 wide receivers command at least ten targets in the NFL. Week 2 saw this number drop to 16. Let’s take a look at the players who received the lions share of their teams’ targets in the past week of NFL action. Double-Digit Targets Week 2 As usual, it is not surprising to see the big names among the most…...

Here we are again, another week of information, and if you are reading this, likely a week with much disappointment. Fantasy Football can be a cruel beast and is not for the faint of heart. Remember that this is a long season, and even if you are 0-2 there is a pathway to victory, you need to be picking up the right players off the…...

Waiver Wire Dumpster Diving takes you beyond the obvious plays and helps you find undervalued gems for deep leagues. If you read this column prior to the slate of Week 2 games, you knew Demarcus Robinson was in for a career game … HA! Kidding! I don’t think anyone saw that one coming. But John Ross (21.2 FP) and Mecole Hardman (16.1 FP) did come…...

Week 2 of the NFL season is in the books, and we’ve still got as many questions as we have answers. Here’s the good, the bad, and the oh so ugly for Week 2. The Good: 1) Dalvin Cook is proving to be an absolute stud. Through two games, Cook has pounded the ground for 265 yards and three TDs on 41 carries. He looks…...

Shawn Siegele breaks down the most explosive wide receiver fantasy performances of Week 2, including a heroic effort from Demarcus Robinson. Blair Andrews does a great job explaining expected points and fantasy points over expectation in the Week 1 EP Report. These metrics translate volume and efficiency directly into fantasy points by looking at the expected results from opportunities that occur at a specific down,…...