We all have them. There are players we want, and then there are those that we just don’t. Sometimes, we just don’t believe the hype that everyone else seems to, and they for more money than you’re willing to pay in auction drafts.[1]The only way to draft. Sometimes a player’s injury history lands them on your “Do Not Draft” list. That’s what I’m focusing on…...

The Draft Dashboard is a powerful tool to prepare for drafts and to dominate the real thing. Now available in both web and excel versions, it gives you a wealth of information at your fingertips when you’re on the clock, and it’s also a flexible mock draft tool that allows you to work through a variety of scenarios and formats. Last week, I used the Draft Dashboard…...

Diversification is great if you’re playing 50 or more leagues, but you need to narrow your focus and give yourself the best chance at success if you’re only playing in a few fantasy drafts. Here are six players I think have the best shot at being league winners in 2019, along with some suggested alternatives in case you miss out. D.J. Moore Last year around…...

After watching Avengers: Endgame, I couldn’t stop thinking about the multiverse. Then, my mind drifted to the Projection Machine, which acts as a fantasy football time machine. Every little tweak in the timeline of fantasy football can have a wide range of repercussions that echo across the league. So, in this series, I’ll dial up that Projection Machine to examine players who could experience big…...

Shawn Siegele looks at the history of fourth-year WR breakouts, discusses the key indicators of fantasy success, and provides three options for your 2019 fantasy football drafts. We focus on WR breakouts by class because you’re looking for very different indicators depending on the amount of experience candidates possess. Yesterday, we found 3 Intriguing Late-Round Options for a Fifth-Year Breakout. Today, we highlight some higher…...

Am I the only one who gets a bit nervous when on the clock in the first round and Odell Beckham is the WR at the top of the draft queue? While he has the talent to overcome historical trends, I can’t help but harken back to Blair Andrews telling us that we should generally avoid WRs who change teams. Nor can I completely ignore the fact that…...

Leonard Fournette is proving to be one of the most pivotal players in 2019 fantasy drafts. With his third-round ADP, he’s one of the earliest “risk” players you need to make a choice on. Do you buy Fournette at his current ADP, or do you pass on him and let one of your league mates deal with the volatility? Fournette’s rookie season comps were a…...

Welcome to the 59th installment of The Wrong Read. Last offseason we found that rookie year efficiency not only tends to persist for WRs, but also signals increased opportunity and fantasy scoring in subsequent seasons. And that’s not all. Efficiency is actually far more predictive than you’ve been told. Volume is king, or so they say. It’s true — nearly a truism — that opportunity…...

Darwin Thompson and Tony Pollard have been RotoViz favorites for months. Devin McIntyre is the foremost Thompson enthusiast in the fantasy community, while Ryan Collinsworth has been leading the charge on Pollard. Both players made the Zero RB Candidates Countdown last week, but both players have continued to rise in the interim. If you want to buy Thompson and Pollard in competitive leagues this weekend,…...

Since joining RotoViz in July, I’ve published two long-form article series[1]Long-form may be an understatement. Combined, the 13 articles from those series amount to 28,529 words, which is longer than The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. I highly advise that you read those articles as a basis for understanding these fantasy WR tiers, but know that it is not quick reading. that examine…...

After watching Avengers: Endgame, I couldn’t stop thinking about the multiverse. Then, my mind drifted to the Projection Machine, which acts as a fantasy football time machine. Every little tweak in the timeline of fantasy football can have a wide range of repercussions that echo across the league. So, in this series, I’ll dial up that Projection Machine to examine players who could experience big…...

The fantasy community faces a conundrum: Almost everyone believes in the individual talents of Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, and O.J. Howard — but they can’t all possibly be fantasy relevant in 2019, right?  I am here to say that those three can all have elite seasons. Yes … even with Jameis Winston, the turnover king. Where does my confidence come from? My confidence comes from…...

“You pay for this, but they give you that.” That classic Neil Young lyric came to mind as I was researching this year’s “Why Buy?” series. We’re often so confident of what we’re going to get when we spend that sixth-round pick on the next big thing, but in reality, we rarely know what we’re buying. The solution? Pay less. That’s the concept behind our…...

Shawn Siegele discusses the fifth-year WR breakout candidates who could rescue the late rounds of your fantasy draft. We focus on WR breakouts by class because you’re looking for very different indicators depending on the amount of experience your candidates possess. This year I’ve done the WR Breakout Series in two-parts. In Part 1, I released the updated 2019 version of the historical WR Breakout…...