Shawn Siegele

Author of the original Zero RB article and 2013 NFFC Primetime Grand Champion. 11-time main event league winner. 2015, 2017, 2018 titles in MFL10 of Death.

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6 Wild Trades From the Reality Sports Online Contract-League Draft

Reality Sports Online provides an auction format that replicates a lot of reality concepts in its innovative contract league. Rookies are added through a draft. Veteran contracts are determined by auction. Franchise tags are available. The salary cap is $167 million, just like in the real NFL…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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2017 Air Yards Projection Countdown | Rishard Matthews – WR 36

Now that the draft is over I’m excited to report that I’ve finished my air yards model for NFL receivers.((The air yards model combined four separate machine learning models into one ensemble model. The models used included a Bayesian neural net, a nearest neighbors algorithm, a random forest algorithm and a tuned generalized linear model. Preprocessing steps included data normalization (centered and scaled), the elimination of…...

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Kansas Speedway: On The Daily, 12 May 2017

May 12, 2017: On The Daily: The RotoViz Daily Fantasy Sports Podcast, powered by RotoViz Radio, featuring Jamie McMurray, Matt Kenseth, and Jimmie Johnson. If you’re a listener of the show who hasn’t subscribed yet to RotoViz, you can get a special 30% discount through the podcast. HOSTS Matthew Freedman (@MattFtheOracle): Editor-in-Chief for FantasyLabs and RotoViz podcast producer Nick Giffen (@RotoDoc): Editor for RotoViz, two-time qualifier for the DraftKings NASCAR…...

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Rookie Drafts Galore: Comparing the Round 1 Results of 6 Expert Drafts

As the embers of the 2017 NFL draft still smoldered, dynasty leagues fired up rookie drafts of their own. Over the last couple of months, I’ve taken over teams in Chad Scott’s Faked Goods league and Ryan McDowell’s Hyperactive format. Both of these leagues have two conferences, giving us four drafts to peruse. Meanwhile, we began drafting in multiple RotoViz leagues…. Membership Required You must...

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The Early RB Myth: Numbers Game 103

May 10, 2017: The Numbers Game (@NumbersGamePod), a sports analytics RotoViz Radio podcast. If you’re a listener of the show who hasn’t subscribed yet to RotoViz, you can get a special 30% discount through the podcast. Host: Nick Giffen (@RotoDoc) Editor at RotoViz, Top-Five NASCAR DFS player, and Math Ph.D. Host: Josh Hermsmeyer (@friscojosh) Contributor at RotoViz and inventor of WR Air Yards SPONSOR Fantasy Football Players Championship –…...

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2017 NFL Draft Reaction: Robert Davis Goes to the Washington Redskins

Robert Davis was drafted with the 209th overall pick in the sixth round of the 2017 NFL draft by the Washington Redskins. The Redskins lost DeSean Jackson and Pierre Garcon, but Davis still enters a crowded depth chart, with Washington previously making some big offseason moves. If he can manage to see the field, he gives Washington another red-zone threat…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership...

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QB Success Model

The Post-Draft 2017 QB Success Model

Earlier this offseason I created the new and improved version of my QB success model. The QB success model uses several machine learning techniques to find the important variables in predicting QB success and in the implementation of the success classification itself. I’ve updated the results with the actual draft positions of the QBs from the 2017 NFL draft…. Membership Required You must be a...

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Unexpected Rookie Running Back Opportunity

A favorite pastime of fantasy football analysts is guessing which rookie running backs will have the best opportunity. It’s an entertaining endeavor, but also an important one since it factors heavily into our draft decisions…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Going Down? MFL10 ADP Fallers – May 7th

The world has gone on turning, the seas have kept on churning, dreams have gone on coming true or falling flat, and MFL10 rosters are still being filled. Here we take a look at players who’ve seen their ADP’s drop in the four-week period between April 7th and May 7th. There may have been a notable event held in Philadelphia during this period; maybe that…...

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2017 NFL Draft Reaction: A Look at Davis Webb With the New York Giants

Davis Webb was drafted 87th overall by the New York Giants as a lottery ticket future backup to Eli Manning.  As 36-year old Manning starts to slow down, the organization would like to have a future quarterback already on the roster, and Webb was considered by some to have late first-round value…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready...

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17 RotoViz Writers Reveal Their Favorite NFL Draft Picks

Now that the NFL draft is over, Team RotoViz did what many of you did; got together after work and talked about our favorite draft picks…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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ESPN Makes PPR the Default: What You Need to Know

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2017 NFL Draft Recap – NFC West Edition

Continuing our look back at how each division fared in the NFL draft, our attention turns now to the NFC West. One of the few divisions to have sent every team to at least one Super Bowl since the dawn of the 21st Century, the Cardinals, Rams, 49ers and Seahawks enjoyed rather disappointing seasons by their own standards in 2016. All four needed to take…...

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3 Reasons D’Onta Foreman Will Succeed in Houston

The NFL Draft is always an interesting exercise. It takes what we think we know about prospects and layers in information about a crucial aspect of fantasy football: opportunity. If there is a disconnect between our talent evaluation and our opportunity evaluation, we are forced to figure out which we value more, and by how much. D’Onta Foreman is someone that many people loved before the…...

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NASCAR DFS Talladega Picks, Ownership and Race Projections

Nick Giffen, AKA @RotoDoc is a Ph.D in mathematics, a two-time qualifier for the DraftKings NASCAR Main Event, and placed 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 7th in the $125k DFS tournament for The Clash at Daytona, which is at a restrictor plate much like this weekend’s NASCAR DFS Talladega slate…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Talladega Superspeedway: On The Daily, 6 May 2017

May 6, 2017: On The Daily: The RotoViz Daily Fantasy Sports Podcast, powered by RotoViz Radio, featuring Joey Logano, Landon Cassill, and Trevor Bayne…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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6 Wild Trades From the Reality Sports Online Contract-League Draft

Reality Sports Online provides an auction format that replicates a lot of reality concepts in its innovative contract league. Rookies are added through a draft. Veteran contracts are determined by auction. Franchise tags are available. The salary cap is $167 million, just like in the real NFL…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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2017 Air Yards Projection Countdown | Rishard Matthews – WR 36

Now that the draft is over I’m excited to report that I’ve finished my air yards model for NFL receivers.((The air yards model combined four separate machine learning models into one ensemble model. The models used included a Bayesian neural net, a nearest neighbors algorithm, a random forest algorithm and a tuned generalized linear model. Preprocessing steps included data normalization (centered and scaled), the elimination of…...

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Kansas Speedway: On The Daily, 12 May 2017

May 12, 2017: On The Daily: The RotoViz Daily Fantasy Sports Podcast, powered by RotoViz Radio, featuring Jamie McMurray, Matt Kenseth, and Jimmie Johnson. If you’re a listener of the show who hasn’t subscribed yet to RotoViz, you can get a special 30% discount through the podcast. HOSTS Matthew Freedman (@MattFtheOracle): Editor-in-Chief for FantasyLabs and RotoViz podcast producer Nick Giffen (@RotoDoc): Editor for RotoViz, two-time qualifier for the DraftKings NASCAR…...

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Rookie Drafts Galore: Comparing the Round 1 Results of 6 Expert Drafts

As the embers of the 2017 NFL draft still smoldered, dynasty leagues fired up rookie drafts of their own. Over the last couple of months, I’ve taken over teams in Chad Scott’s Faked Goods league and Ryan McDowell’s Hyperactive format. Both of these leagues have two conferences, giving us four drafts to peruse. Meanwhile, we began drafting in multiple RotoViz leagues…. Membership Required You must...

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The Early RB Myth: Numbers Game 103

May 10, 2017: The Numbers Game (@NumbersGamePod), a sports analytics RotoViz Radio podcast. If you’re a listener of the show who hasn’t subscribed yet to RotoViz, you can get a special 30% discount through the podcast. Host: Nick Giffen (@RotoDoc) Editor at RotoViz, Top-Five NASCAR DFS player, and Math Ph.D. Host: Josh Hermsmeyer (@friscojosh) Contributor at RotoViz and inventor of WR Air Yards SPONSOR Fantasy Football Players Championship –…...

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2017 NFL Draft Reaction: Robert Davis Goes to the Washington Redskins

Robert Davis was drafted with the 209th overall pick in the sixth round of the 2017 NFL draft by the Washington Redskins. The Redskins lost DeSean Jackson and Pierre Garcon, but Davis still enters a crowded depth chart, with Washington previously making some big offseason moves. If he can manage to see the field, he gives Washington another red-zone threat…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership...

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QB Success Model

The Post-Draft 2017 QB Success Model

Earlier this offseason I created the new and improved version of my QB success model. The QB success model uses several machine learning techniques to find the important variables in predicting QB success and in the implementation of the success classification itself. I’ve updated the results with the actual draft positions of the QBs from the 2017 NFL draft…. Membership Required You must be a...

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Unexpected Rookie Running Back Opportunity

A favorite pastime of fantasy football analysts is guessing which rookie running backs will have the best opportunity. It’s an entertaining endeavor, but also an important one since it factors heavily into our draft decisions…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Going Down? MFL10 ADP Fallers – May 7th

The world has gone on turning, the seas have kept on churning, dreams have gone on coming true or falling flat, and MFL10 rosters are still being filled. Here we take a look at players who’ve seen their ADP’s drop in the four-week period between April 7th and May 7th. There may have been a notable event held in Philadelphia during this period; maybe that…...

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2017 NFL Draft Reaction: A Look at Davis Webb With the New York Giants

Davis Webb was drafted 87th overall by the New York Giants as a lottery ticket future backup to Eli Manning.  As 36-year old Manning starts to slow down, the organization would like to have a future quarterback already on the roster, and Webb was considered by some to have late first-round value…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready...

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17 RotoViz Writers Reveal Their Favorite NFL Draft Picks

Now that the NFL draft is over, Team RotoViz did what many of you did; got together after work and talked about our favorite draft picks…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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ESPN Makes PPR the Default: What You Need to Know

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2017 NFL Draft Recap – NFC West Edition

Continuing our look back at how each division fared in the NFL draft, our attention turns now to the NFC West. One of the few divisions to have sent every team to at least one Super Bowl since the dawn of the 21st Century, the Cardinals, Rams, 49ers and Seahawks enjoyed rather disappointing seasons by their own standards in 2016. All four needed to take…...

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3 Reasons D’Onta Foreman Will Succeed in Houston

The NFL Draft is always an interesting exercise. It takes what we think we know about prospects and layers in information about a crucial aspect of fantasy football: opportunity. If there is a disconnect between our talent evaluation and our opportunity evaluation, we are forced to figure out which we value more, and by how much. D’Onta Foreman is someone that many people loved before the…...

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NASCAR DFS Talladega Picks, Ownership and Race Projections

Nick Giffen, AKA @RotoDoc is a Ph.D in mathematics, a two-time qualifier for the DraftKings NASCAR Main Event, and placed 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 7th in the $125k DFS tournament for The Clash at Daytona, which is at a restrictor plate much like this weekend’s NASCAR DFS Talladega slate…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Talladega Superspeedway: On The Daily, 6 May 2017

May 6, 2017: On The Daily: The RotoViz Daily Fantasy Sports Podcast, powered by RotoViz Radio, featuring Joey Logano, Landon Cassill, and Trevor Bayne…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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6 Wild Trades From the Reality Sports Online Contract-League Draft

Reality Sports Online provides an auction format that replicates a lot of reality concepts in its innovative contract league. Rookies are added through a draft. Veteran contracts are determined by auction. Franchise tags are available. The salary cap is $167 million, just like in the real NFL…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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2017 Air Yards Projection Countdown | Rishard Matthews – WR 36

Now that the draft is over I’m excited to report that I’ve finished my air yards model for NFL receivers.((The air yards model combined four separate machine learning models into one ensemble model. The models used included a Bayesian neural net, a nearest neighbors algorithm, a random forest algorithm and a tuned generalized linear model. Preprocessing steps included data normalization (centered and scaled), the elimination of…...

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Kansas Speedway: On The Daily, 12 May 2017

May 12, 2017: On The Daily: The RotoViz Daily Fantasy Sports Podcast, powered by RotoViz Radio, featuring Jamie McMurray, Matt Kenseth, and Jimmie Johnson. If you’re a listener of the show who hasn’t subscribed yet to RotoViz, you can get a special 30% discount through the podcast. HOSTS Matthew Freedman (@MattFtheOracle): Editor-in-Chief for FantasyLabs and RotoViz podcast producer Nick Giffen (@RotoDoc): Editor for RotoViz, two-time qualifier for the DraftKings NASCAR…...

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Rookie Drafts Galore: Comparing the Round 1 Results of 6 Expert Drafts

As the embers of the 2017 NFL draft still smoldered, dynasty leagues fired up rookie drafts of their own. Over the last couple of months, I’ve taken over teams in Chad Scott’s Faked Goods league and Ryan McDowell’s Hyperactive format. Both of these leagues have two conferences, giving us four drafts to peruse. Meanwhile, we began drafting in multiple RotoViz leagues…. Membership Required You must...

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The Early RB Myth: Numbers Game 103

May 10, 2017: The Numbers Game (@NumbersGamePod), a sports analytics RotoViz Radio podcast. If you’re a listener of the show who hasn’t subscribed yet to RotoViz, you can get a special 30% discount through the podcast. Host: Nick Giffen (@RotoDoc) Editor at RotoViz, Top-Five NASCAR DFS player, and Math Ph.D. Host: Josh Hermsmeyer (@friscojosh) Contributor at RotoViz and inventor of WR Air Yards SPONSOR Fantasy Football Players Championship –…...

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2017 NFL Draft Reaction: Robert Davis Goes to the Washington Redskins

Robert Davis was drafted with the 209th overall pick in the sixth round of the 2017 NFL draft by the Washington Redskins. The Redskins lost DeSean Jackson and Pierre Garcon, but Davis still enters a crowded depth chart, with Washington previously making some big offseason moves. If he can manage to see the field, he gives Washington another red-zone threat…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership...

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QB Success Model

The Post-Draft 2017 QB Success Model

Earlier this offseason I created the new and improved version of my QB success model. The QB success model uses several machine learning techniques to find the important variables in predicting QB success and in the implementation of the success classification itself. I’ve updated the results with the actual draft positions of the QBs from the 2017 NFL draft…. Membership Required You must be a...

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Unexpected Rookie Running Back Opportunity

A favorite pastime of fantasy football analysts is guessing which rookie running backs will have the best opportunity. It’s an entertaining endeavor, but also an important one since it factors heavily into our draft decisions…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Going Down? MFL10 ADP Fallers – May 7th

The world has gone on turning, the seas have kept on churning, dreams have gone on coming true or falling flat, and MFL10 rosters are still being filled. Here we take a look at players who’ve seen their ADP’s drop in the four-week period between April 7th and May 7th. There may have been a notable event held in Philadelphia during this period; maybe that…...

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2017 NFL Draft Reaction: A Look at Davis Webb With the New York Giants

Davis Webb was drafted 87th overall by the New York Giants as a lottery ticket future backup to Eli Manning.  As 36-year old Manning starts to slow down, the organization would like to have a future quarterback already on the roster, and Webb was considered by some to have late first-round value…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready...

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17 RotoViz Writers Reveal Their Favorite NFL Draft Picks

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ESPN Makes PPR the Default: What You Need to Know

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2017 NFL Draft Recap – NFC West Edition

Continuing our look back at how each division fared in the NFL draft, our attention turns now to the NFC West. One of the few divisions to have sent every team to at least one Super Bowl since the dawn of the 21st Century, the Cardinals, Rams, 49ers and Seahawks enjoyed rather disappointing seasons by their own standards in 2016. All four needed to take…...

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3 Reasons D’Onta Foreman Will Succeed in Houston

The NFL Draft is always an interesting exercise. It takes what we think we know about prospects and layers in information about a crucial aspect of fantasy football: opportunity. If there is a disconnect between our talent evaluation and our opportunity evaluation, we are forced to figure out which we value more, and by how much. D’Onta Foreman is someone that many people loved before the…...

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NASCAR DFS Talladega Picks, Ownership and Race Projections

Nick Giffen, AKA @RotoDoc is a Ph.D in mathematics, a two-time qualifier for the DraftKings NASCAR Main Event, and placed 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 7th in the $125k DFS tournament for The Clash at Daytona, which is at a restrictor plate much like this weekend’s NASCAR DFS Talladega slate…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Talladega Superspeedway: On The Daily, 6 May 2017

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