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Tyler Loechner
Tyler specializes in DFS, redraft, and dynasty. He is a member of the FSWA and won the Best Football Series award in 2017. Tyler previously wrote for PFF Fantasy and Bleacher Report.
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Week 9 Waiver Wire Advice: Top Targets At Each Position
Tyler Loechner
October 28, 2019
Looking for Week 9 waiver wire advice for fantasy football? You’ve come to the right place. We’ll give you some of the top targets at each position so that when you submit a waiver claim, you do it with confidence. This article will run through the top players available in most leagues.((If a player is already owned in over 50% of leagues, he won’t be…...
High Staked: *Sigh* … Drake
Monty Phan
October 28, 2019
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…...
Week 8 Primetime Slate DFS Breakdown
Tyler Loechner
October 27, 2019
Who are the best plays for the Week 8 DFS primetime slate on DraftKings and FanDuel? Tyler Loechner runs through notes on the primetime short slate featuring SNF/MNF games.((An important note: I’m writing this column with tournaments and GPPs top of mind. Cash game plays on short slates are usually easier to figure out because the options are so thin; tournaments require quite a bit…...
Talkin’ Trades Week 8: Tom Brady Adds a WR and the Falcons Vacate Some Targets
Devin McIntyre
October 26, 2019
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,…...
Tomorrow’s Moves Today – Week 6: Leveraging SOS and Team-Level Trends to Stay Ahead of the Competition
Dave Caban
October 26, 2019
Tomorrow’s Moves Today uses the Strength of Schedule Streaming App to identify team positional units with favorable/unfavorable upcoming schedules and players on related teams that should be targeted or avoided. Welcome to the Week 6 edition of Tomorrow’s Moves Today! On a weekly basis, we’ll look ahead to find positional units with favorable upcoming schedules. Likewise, we’ll identify positional units that stand before an oncoming gauntlet. The idea…...
Game Level Similarity Projections: Providing Context and Explaining a Recent Tweak
Dave Caban
October 26, 2019
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…...
Dollars Per Opportunity: Valuing The Titans Pass Game
George Fitopoulos
October 25, 2019
Opportunity, opportunity, opportunity — that’s what fantasy football is all about. Each week I utilize our GLSP projections to find the hidden DFS values from a dollar-per-opportunity perspective with a focus on Yahoo! DFS. Last week we had success with playing Lamar Jackson, although stacking him with Mark Andrews and his three crucial drops caused a lot of frustration. Also, Robert Woods getting tackled at…...
DK Buffet Week 8: Death, Taxes, and Tyler Boyd
Matt Jones
October 25, 2019
When I’m looking into the DFS slate each week, I like to go game by game and identify players or situations that intrigue me. In every game, on every team, there’s a situation that’s relevant for DFS purposes, either positive or negative reason. It informs us of how we should be attacking each slate. Arizona Cardinals Spread: +10.5 @ New Orleans | Total: 48.5 Chase Edmonds…...
FanDuel NFL Cash Plays – Week 8
The Fantasy Football Ghost
October 25, 2019
With the NFL heading into the midway point of the regular season, The Fantasy Football Ghost has some tasty values for us in Week 8! With only one player I suggested last week even surpassing 2.5 times value, Week 7 was a certifiable bust. Josh Allen was the lone bright spot for the column last week with 2.76 times value. Meanwhile, Evan Engram could only…...
Week 8 DraftKings Targets: Matthew Stafford Will Keep On Rolling
TJ Calkins
October 25, 2019
Thanks for stopping back for Week 8. Week 7 saw a massive divide on cash and tournament results. For the second time this season, my cash lineup was my best lineup and cashed everything easily while tournaments suffered. If you’re familiar with me, you know I’ve always been a tournament player and never paid much attention to cash until this season to level out the…...
Bracket Busting: Decisions, Decisions
Monty Phan
October 25, 2019
High-stakes writers Monty Phan and John Lapinski chronicle their entry in the FFPC Super Bracket contest. The scenario: We had an ailing Amari Cooper we wanted to start against the woeful Eagles secondary, but the Cowboys weren’t playing until Sunday night, and all our other best options were going in the early Sunday games. The decision: We rolled the dice that Cooper would be active…...
When The Devy Breaks: Injuries And Lagging Production Have Made Laviska Shenault A Potential Buy Candidate
Jordan Hoover
October 24, 2019
Welcome back to When The Devy Breaks, your weekly rundown of the college football landscape and how it affects your devy league rosters. Here are a few quick storylines from last weekend’s slate of action: Illinois forced three turnovers against Wisconsin, setting up a monster upset win at home as 31-point underdogs. Florida QB Kyle Trask threw 4 TDs in an impressive 38-27 road win…...
Best Ball Win Rates: 5 Big Risers Include an RB Star, a TE Revelation, and a WR Already Making His Case for the Hall
Shawn Siegele
October 24, 2019
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…...
Group of Five Devy Rundown: Week 8
Matt Wispe
October 24, 2019
The storylines coming out of Week 8 were upset and one noteworthy injury. And the upsets weren’t limited to the Power 5. BYU knocked off the undefeated Boise State team. The American Athletic Conference was the highlight for prospects, this week, as some of the most dynamic offenses were on display. Quarterback Shane Buechele, QB SMU In what was a minor surprise, SMU blew out…...
High Staked: Ty Time?
Monty Phan
October 24, 2019
Veteran high stakes fantasy football player Monty Phan chronicles his season. It’s pretty clear that a lot of teams are hoping Ty Johnson can save their FFPC Main Event seasons — or at least serve as a valuable player to stash. This is likely especially true of teams that elected not to go RB-heavy in the high-leverage rounds of the draft and are now paying the…...
15 Stats to Know for DFS in Week 8
Tyler Loechner
October 24, 2019
Utilizing RotoViz’s suite of creative tools, metrics, and filterable stats (all of which just keep getting better!), I unearthed 15 key stats to help you crush your Week 8 NFL DFS lineups. Vegas lines for Week 8 Reported lines are current as of October 23, 2019.[1]Provided by footballlocks.com. WAS @ MIN: Olabisi Johnson had a 24% target market share last week IMPLIED: MIN 29, WAS…...
Patrick Mahomes May Return Sooner Than Expected, But Is That Wise? Dr. Jeffrey Budoff Discusses
Jeffrey E. Budoff, MD
October 24, 2019
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…...
NFL FanDuel GPPs: What The Lineup Optimizer Is Telling Us To Do in Week 8
Michael Dubner
October 24, 2019
Large-field GPPs are primarily won in three key areas: 1) player projections, 2) roster construction, and 3) ownership. Groupthink can run rampant through the fantasy football grapevines and cause DFSers to concentrate on just one scenario in a player’s possible range of outcomes. What was once a good play in a vacuum can become suboptimal as chalk. And what may feel thin at first may actually be…...
Remake Your Injury-Riddled Lineups By Selling These 4 Stars With Brutal Upcoming Schedules
Shawn Siegele
October 23, 2019
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: Team by Team Opportunity, Expected Points, and Actual Results
Dave Caban
October 23, 2019
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…...
Week 9 Waiver Wire Advice: Top Targets At Each Position
Tyler Loechner
October 28, 2019
Looking for Week 9 waiver wire advice for fantasy football? You’ve come to the right place. We’ll give you some of the top targets at each position so that when you submit a waiver claim, you do it with confidence. This article will run through the top players available in most leagues.((If a player is already owned in over 50% of leagues, he won’t be…...
High Staked: *Sigh* … Drake
Monty Phan
October 28, 2019
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…...
Week 8 Primetime Slate DFS Breakdown
Tyler Loechner
October 27, 2019
Who are the best plays for the Week 8 DFS primetime slate on DraftKings and FanDuel? Tyler Loechner runs through notes on the primetime short slate featuring SNF/MNF games.((An important note: I’m writing this column with tournaments and GPPs top of mind. Cash game plays on short slates are usually easier to figure out because the options are so thin; tournaments require quite a bit…...
Talkin’ Trades Week 8: Tom Brady Adds a WR and the Falcons Vacate Some Targets
Devin McIntyre
October 26, 2019
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,…...
Tomorrow’s Moves Today – Week 6: Leveraging SOS and Team-Level Trends to Stay Ahead of the Competition
Dave Caban
October 26, 2019
Tomorrow’s Moves Today uses the Strength of Schedule Streaming App to identify team positional units with favorable/unfavorable upcoming schedules and players on related teams that should be targeted or avoided. Welcome to the Week 6 edition of Tomorrow’s Moves Today! On a weekly basis, we’ll look ahead to find positional units with favorable upcoming schedules. Likewise, we’ll identify positional units that stand before an oncoming gauntlet. The idea…...
Game Level Similarity Projections: Providing Context and Explaining a Recent Tweak
Dave Caban
October 26, 2019
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…...
Dollars Per Opportunity: Valuing The Titans Pass Game
George Fitopoulos
October 25, 2019
Opportunity, opportunity, opportunity — that’s what fantasy football is all about. Each week I utilize our GLSP projections to find the hidden DFS values from a dollar-per-opportunity perspective with a focus on Yahoo! DFS. Last week we had success with playing Lamar Jackson, although stacking him with Mark Andrews and his three crucial drops caused a lot of frustration. Also, Robert Woods getting tackled at…...
DK Buffet Week 8: Death, Taxes, and Tyler Boyd
Matt Jones
October 25, 2019
When I’m looking into the DFS slate each week, I like to go game by game and identify players or situations that intrigue me. In every game, on every team, there’s a situation that’s relevant for DFS purposes, either positive or negative reason. It informs us of how we should be attacking each slate. Arizona Cardinals Spread: +10.5 @ New Orleans | Total: 48.5 Chase Edmonds…...
FanDuel NFL Cash Plays – Week 8
The Fantasy Football Ghost
October 25, 2019
With the NFL heading into the midway point of the regular season, The Fantasy Football Ghost has some tasty values for us in Week 8! With only one player I suggested last week even surpassing 2.5 times value, Week 7 was a certifiable bust. Josh Allen was the lone bright spot for the column last week with 2.76 times value. Meanwhile, Evan Engram could only…...
Week 8 DraftKings Targets: Matthew Stafford Will Keep On Rolling
TJ Calkins
October 25, 2019
Thanks for stopping back for Week 8. Week 7 saw a massive divide on cash and tournament results. For the second time this season, my cash lineup was my best lineup and cashed everything easily while tournaments suffered. If you’re familiar with me, you know I’ve always been a tournament player and never paid much attention to cash until this season to level out the…...
Bracket Busting: Decisions, Decisions
Monty Phan
October 25, 2019
High-stakes writers Monty Phan and John Lapinski chronicle their entry in the FFPC Super Bracket contest. The scenario: We had an ailing Amari Cooper we wanted to start against the woeful Eagles secondary, but the Cowboys weren’t playing until Sunday night, and all our other best options were going in the early Sunday games. The decision: We rolled the dice that Cooper would be active…...
When The Devy Breaks: Injuries And Lagging Production Have Made Laviska Shenault A Potential Buy Candidate
Jordan Hoover
October 24, 2019
Welcome back to When The Devy Breaks, your weekly rundown of the college football landscape and how it affects your devy league rosters. Here are a few quick storylines from last weekend’s slate of action: Illinois forced three turnovers against Wisconsin, setting up a monster upset win at home as 31-point underdogs. Florida QB Kyle Trask threw 4 TDs in an impressive 38-27 road win…...
Best Ball Win Rates: 5 Big Risers Include an RB Star, a TE Revelation, and a WR Already Making His Case for the Hall
Shawn Siegele
October 24, 2019
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…...
Group of Five Devy Rundown: Week 8
Matt Wispe
October 24, 2019
The storylines coming out of Week 8 were upset and one noteworthy injury. And the upsets weren’t limited to the Power 5. BYU knocked off the undefeated Boise State team. The American Athletic Conference was the highlight for prospects, this week, as some of the most dynamic offenses were on display. Quarterback Shane Buechele, QB SMU In what was a minor surprise, SMU blew out…...
High Staked: Ty Time?
Monty Phan
October 24, 2019
Veteran high stakes fantasy football player Monty Phan chronicles his season. It’s pretty clear that a lot of teams are hoping Ty Johnson can save their FFPC Main Event seasons — or at least serve as a valuable player to stash. This is likely especially true of teams that elected not to go RB-heavy in the high-leverage rounds of the draft and are now paying the…...
15 Stats to Know for DFS in Week 8
Tyler Loechner
October 24, 2019
Utilizing RotoViz’s suite of creative tools, metrics, and filterable stats (all of which just keep getting better!), I unearthed 15 key stats to help you crush your Week 8 NFL DFS lineups. Vegas lines for Week 8 Reported lines are current as of October 23, 2019.[1]Provided by footballlocks.com. WAS @ MIN: Olabisi Johnson had a 24% target market share last week IMPLIED: MIN 29, WAS…...
Patrick Mahomes May Return Sooner Than Expected, But Is That Wise? Dr. Jeffrey Budoff Discusses
Jeffrey E. Budoff, MD
October 24, 2019
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…...
NFL FanDuel GPPs: What The Lineup Optimizer Is Telling Us To Do in Week 8
Michael Dubner
October 24, 2019
Large-field GPPs are primarily won in three key areas: 1) player projections, 2) roster construction, and 3) ownership. Groupthink can run rampant through the fantasy football grapevines and cause DFSers to concentrate on just one scenario in a player’s possible range of outcomes. What was once a good play in a vacuum can become suboptimal as chalk. And what may feel thin at first may actually be…...
Remake Your Injury-Riddled Lineups By Selling These 4 Stars With Brutal Upcoming Schedules
Shawn Siegele
October 23, 2019
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: Team by Team Opportunity, Expected Points, and Actual Results
Dave Caban
October 23, 2019
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…...
Week 9 Waiver Wire Advice: Top Targets At Each Position
Tyler Loechner
October 28, 2019
Looking for Week 9 waiver wire advice for fantasy football? You’ve come to the right place. We’ll give you some of the top targets at each position so that when you submit a waiver claim, you do it with confidence. This article will run through the top players available in most leagues.((If a player is already owned in over 50% of leagues, he won’t be…...
High Staked: *Sigh* … Drake
Monty Phan
October 28, 2019
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…...
Week 8 Primetime Slate DFS Breakdown
Tyler Loechner
October 27, 2019
Who are the best plays for the Week 8 DFS primetime slate on DraftKings and FanDuel? Tyler Loechner runs through notes on the primetime short slate featuring SNF/MNF games.((An important note: I’m writing this column with tournaments and GPPs top of mind. Cash game plays on short slates are usually easier to figure out because the options are so thin; tournaments require quite a bit…...
Talkin’ Trades Week 8: Tom Brady Adds a WR and the Falcons Vacate Some Targets
Devin McIntyre
October 26, 2019
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,…...
Tomorrow’s Moves Today – Week 6: Leveraging SOS and Team-Level Trends to Stay Ahead of the Competition
Dave Caban
October 26, 2019
Tomorrow’s Moves Today uses the Strength of Schedule Streaming App to identify team positional units with favorable/unfavorable upcoming schedules and players on related teams that should be targeted or avoided. Welcome to the Week 6 edition of Tomorrow’s Moves Today! On a weekly basis, we’ll look ahead to find positional units with favorable upcoming schedules. Likewise, we’ll identify positional units that stand before an oncoming gauntlet. The idea…...
Game Level Similarity Projections: Providing Context and Explaining a Recent Tweak
Dave Caban
October 26, 2019
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…...
Dollars Per Opportunity: Valuing The Titans Pass Game
George Fitopoulos
October 25, 2019
Opportunity, opportunity, opportunity — that’s what fantasy football is all about. Each week I utilize our GLSP projections to find the hidden DFS values from a dollar-per-opportunity perspective with a focus on Yahoo! DFS. Last week we had success with playing Lamar Jackson, although stacking him with Mark Andrews and his three crucial drops caused a lot of frustration. Also, Robert Woods getting tackled at…...
DK Buffet Week 8: Death, Taxes, and Tyler Boyd
Matt Jones
October 25, 2019
When I’m looking into the DFS slate each week, I like to go game by game and identify players or situations that intrigue me. In every game, on every team, there’s a situation that’s relevant for DFS purposes, either positive or negative reason. It informs us of how we should be attacking each slate. Arizona Cardinals Spread: +10.5 @ New Orleans | Total: 48.5 Chase Edmonds…...
FanDuel NFL Cash Plays – Week 8
The Fantasy Football Ghost
October 25, 2019
With the NFL heading into the midway point of the regular season, The Fantasy Football Ghost has some tasty values for us in Week 8! With only one player I suggested last week even surpassing 2.5 times value, Week 7 was a certifiable bust. Josh Allen was the lone bright spot for the column last week with 2.76 times value. Meanwhile, Evan Engram could only…...
Week 8 DraftKings Targets: Matthew Stafford Will Keep On Rolling
TJ Calkins
October 25, 2019
Thanks for stopping back for Week 8. Week 7 saw a massive divide on cash and tournament results. For the second time this season, my cash lineup was my best lineup and cashed everything easily while tournaments suffered. If you’re familiar with me, you know I’ve always been a tournament player and never paid much attention to cash until this season to level out the…...
Bracket Busting: Decisions, Decisions
Monty Phan
October 25, 2019
High-stakes writers Monty Phan and John Lapinski chronicle their entry in the FFPC Super Bracket contest. The scenario: We had an ailing Amari Cooper we wanted to start against the woeful Eagles secondary, but the Cowboys weren’t playing until Sunday night, and all our other best options were going in the early Sunday games. The decision: We rolled the dice that Cooper would be active…...
When The Devy Breaks: Injuries And Lagging Production Have Made Laviska Shenault A Potential Buy Candidate
Jordan Hoover
October 24, 2019
Welcome back to When The Devy Breaks, your weekly rundown of the college football landscape and how it affects your devy league rosters. Here are a few quick storylines from last weekend’s slate of action: Illinois forced three turnovers against Wisconsin, setting up a monster upset win at home as 31-point underdogs. Florida QB Kyle Trask threw 4 TDs in an impressive 38-27 road win…...
Best Ball Win Rates: 5 Big Risers Include an RB Star, a TE Revelation, and a WR Already Making His Case for the Hall
Shawn Siegele
October 24, 2019
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…...
Group of Five Devy Rundown: Week 8
Matt Wispe
October 24, 2019
The storylines coming out of Week 8 were upset and one noteworthy injury. And the upsets weren’t limited to the Power 5. BYU knocked off the undefeated Boise State team. The American Athletic Conference was the highlight for prospects, this week, as some of the most dynamic offenses were on display. Quarterback Shane Buechele, QB SMU In what was a minor surprise, SMU blew out…...
High Staked: Ty Time?
Monty Phan
October 24, 2019
Veteran high stakes fantasy football player Monty Phan chronicles his season. It’s pretty clear that a lot of teams are hoping Ty Johnson can save their FFPC Main Event seasons — or at least serve as a valuable player to stash. This is likely especially true of teams that elected not to go RB-heavy in the high-leverage rounds of the draft and are now paying the…...
15 Stats to Know for DFS in Week 8
Tyler Loechner
October 24, 2019
Utilizing RotoViz’s suite of creative tools, metrics, and filterable stats (all of which just keep getting better!), I unearthed 15 key stats to help you crush your Week 8 NFL DFS lineups. Vegas lines for Week 8 Reported lines are current as of October 23, 2019.[1]Provided by footballlocks.com. WAS @ MIN: Olabisi Johnson had a 24% target market share last week IMPLIED: MIN 29, WAS…...
Patrick Mahomes May Return Sooner Than Expected, But Is That Wise? Dr. Jeffrey Budoff Discusses
Jeffrey E. Budoff, MD
October 24, 2019
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…...
NFL FanDuel GPPs: What The Lineup Optimizer Is Telling Us To Do in Week 8
Michael Dubner
October 24, 2019
Large-field GPPs are primarily won in three key areas: 1) player projections, 2) roster construction, and 3) ownership. Groupthink can run rampant through the fantasy football grapevines and cause DFSers to concentrate on just one scenario in a player’s possible range of outcomes. What was once a good play in a vacuum can become suboptimal as chalk. And what may feel thin at first may actually be…...
Remake Your Injury-Riddled Lineups By Selling These 4 Stars With Brutal Upcoming Schedules
Shawn Siegele
October 23, 2019
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: Team by Team Opportunity, Expected Points, and Actual Results
Dave Caban
October 23, 2019
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…...
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