This past weekend, my high school friends and I had our 10th annual fantasy football draft. While I am the defending champion, have the highest net winnings in our league’s history, and draft in hundreds of DRAFT best balls throughout the year, my draft always plays out differently than I expect. I always find myself surprised by the way this home league draft unfolds, and…...

Most fantasy analysis is devoted to sorting the order of players likely to have an immediate impact, but every year there are a handful of overlooked deep sleepers who emerge to fill a starting role in redraft. Last year, it was guys like Phillip Lindsay and James Conner at running back. Deep sleepers at WR are a little harder to find, but we did tell you to watch out for Curtis Samuel,…...

Two years ago RotoViz was very excited about a rookie RB out of Boise State, and we had very good reason to be. In fact, he finished second overall in the RB Prospect Lab in a truly loaded class, besting Christian McCaffrey, Joe Mixon, Leonard Fournette, Dalvin Cook, Marlon Mack, Kareem Hunt, Aaron Jones, James Conner, and Alvin Kamara.((Side note: we should probably be talking…...

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. Today, I’m going to deploy…...

The RotoViz Team recently released a new tool called the “Range of Ouctomes App.” This tool will help users to better understand a player’s realistic range of outcomes for the coming season. In this article, Dave Caban overviews the process of building the tool and interpreting its results. Phillip Lindsay was one of the most exciting surprises of the 2018 fantasy season. The undrafted free…...

I am very much here for the Sixth Coming of our Gord and Savior. But that doesn’t mean I have the faintest inkling of how it will all play out. The Patriots have placed Josh Gordon on the Non-Football Injury list for the time being, but they dropped Dontrelle Inman when Gordon was reinstated, so all signs point to Gordon being a part of this…...

You know that feeling when you finish a draft and can’t find any mistakes? Everything just falls perfectly in line with your plan and you wouldn’t change anything. Today we’ll be taking a look at one such perfect draft in 0.5-point-per-reception leagues. As stated in the Non-PPR draft, I will follow these rules for my “Perfect Draft”: I can reach for players early, but I…...

The latest in a long line of new and beefed-up RotoViz apps has arrived — Dave Caban’s Range of Outcomes App. You might remember this as the Sim Scores App, which gathers the most comparable seasons for a player, and based on that, assigns them a range of outcomes for the coming season. I prefer considering a player’s range of outcomes, as they provide a…...

You know that feeling when you finish a draft and can’t find any mistakes? Everything just falls in place perfectly in line with your plan and you just feel perfect. Today, we’ll kick of the series with the OG league – 12-team, non-PPR scoring. While it’s no longer the standard for some of the primary fantasy outlets, plenty of leagues still run the traditional format…....

Despite what you’ve been told, the preseason actually does matter — at least in the world of fantasy football. You can gain a serious edge on the competition by paying attention to the games and searching for deep sleepers just as they are waking up, such as the current front runner of #teampreseason 2019: Patriots rookie wideout Jakobi Meyers. We started these takeaway pieces with Thursday night’s…...

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…...

Friday night was football night, as Week 2 of the NFL preseason continued with three games. Here are our immediate takeaways from the action. The games: BUF @ CAR, CHI @ NYG, MIA @ TB Josh Allen finds a security blanket Buffalo Bills sophomore quarterback Josh Allen failed to throw a touchdown pass against the Panthers, keeping him scoreless through two preseason games. But he…...

Antonio Brown’s decision to force himself out of Pittsburgh leaves a gaping 150-plus target void among the Steelers receiving corps. Under head coach Mike Tomlin, Pittsburgh has consistently ranked among the league’s most pass-heavy offenses, so we know those targets are going to be redistributed somehow. JuJu Smith-Schuster is the obvious lock to assume Brown’s previous WR1 role. But who will receive the lion’s share…...

A couple of days ago, we discussed a quick hack for finding the top breakout WRs. Yesterday, we noted that some of the biggest FFPC risers are on a collision course with the RB Priority Window. What if we could use these two pieces of information to supercharge our RB breakout picks? Another Metric That Suggests You Will Profit By Selecting Good Players We’ll begin…...

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…...

We’re kicking off week two semi-NFL football, and fantasy football Twitter is full of reminders that it’s only preseason. Twitter timelines are dominated with warnings of what we should and should not buy into for the coming fantasy football season – here are our preseason takeaways from the Thursday night slate. The games: PHI @ JAX, NYJ @ ATL, CIN @ WAS, OAK @ ARI…...