Big Ben Roethlisberger, Pittsburgh’s quarterback, was injured Week 3. His knee was bent at an awkward angle, and when all of the dust settled he was diagnosed with a Grade 2 MCL (medial collateral ligament) injury and a bone bruise of his left (forward when throwing) knee. His ACL was not torn. MCL Injuries The MCL is the ligament on the inside of the…...

Fantasy football is a funny game. There are generally two things that will determine if a player is successful in fantasy: talent and opportunity. The latter is fairly easy to evaluate. Does a certain running back receive carries? Is wide receiver x targeted frequently in the passing game? It is the former that is tricky, and can usually get us into trouble. Take a look…...

Here are the players I am targeting on the waiver wire for Week 4. If you’re in a deeper league, consider these trade targets instead of free agent acquisitions. Over the course of the season, @RIPatriot (Aaron Butler) or I will provide our overreactions every Monday morning to what happened in the NFL that week. One of us might show up in the other’s article…...

Welcome to The Position Report, the weekly column that is scheduled to come out on Thursday or Friday or Saturday morning at the absolute latest but because of other writing commitments and end-of-week procrastination comes out on Sunday morning a few hours before kickoff when it’s least useful to anyone. Fortunately, no one reads it. As I start writing this, it once again is literally…...

In addition to playing around with the projections, the Game Splits App, and understanding game flow, one of the ways I like to zero in on running backs for a given week is to roll up my sleeves and dig into the offensive and defensive line match-ups. While it’s beneficial to have a good grasp on team level rushing metrics, it’s just as important to…...

We’re more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can’t give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead As everyone knows, and…...

I’ve been trying to think of how to describe Week 2 for a while now and have decided a picture might work better…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

Week 2 Recap Week 2 was a crazy with several games going against the script projected by Vegas lines. As a result my Week 2 picks were shaky, especially the Saints stack of Drew Brees, Brandin Cooks, and Brandon Coleman. My daily fantasy football projections from the machine learning model also had a miserable week, with only the wide receiver position having an R-squared value over 0.25. However, that’s…...

This is the second of a weekly series examining the actual fantasy production of wide receivers compared to what they would have been expected to do based on the targets that they saw. Got it? We determine that second part using line of scrimmage data. For a more detailed explanation, here’s the first iteration of this article. Here are the main terms you need to know:…...

Each week his season, a group of RotoViz writers writers will offer their Play of the Week. We’re tracking the value of our recommendations, using a DraftKings Millionaire Maker lineup metric, but we think these picks will also be valuable for seasonal leagues as well. For all the details about the thought process behind our picks, check the intro article. The goal is simple: recommend a…...

We all hope to have perks at our jobs. When you work for a hotel, you get discounted rooms. Sometimes you get upgraded to a suite. When you work at an office downtown, maybe you have a great view. Sometimes Ted From Accounting brings in donuts on Fridays. When you work at Chick-Fil-A, you get all the waffle fries you can eat. Sometimes they make…...

Welcome to the RB Opportunity Report. The goal of this series is to go beyond raw carries, targets and yardage stats to look at the true opportunity each running back had to score fantasy points each week, and what they did with it…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

Tajae Sharpe greeted the college football world in 2012 in an unassuming way; by catching a pass in every single game en route to a 20-206-0 campaign. The raw numbers may not grab your attention, but this should: Tajae was 17 years old for every game of that season…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log...

In the News RotoViz recently earned a pair of mentions in different outlets. 14TeamMocker got a shoutout on NFL.com related to his advocacy on behalf of the fantasy prospects of Leonard Hankerson. Taking a quick look at the Fantasy Efficiency App, we see that Hankerson is comfortably ahead of Roddy White by any measure. NAME OFF TRGS TRGMS reEP reFPOE reFPOEPT Julio Jones ATL 26 0.325 37.16 24.44 0.94…...

It was another strong week to stream quarterbacks, as a glutton of top-end QBs failed to produce. Peyton Manning, Andrew Luck, Eli Manning, Matt Ryan, and Drew Brees all failed to finish inside the top 12 of the position in Week 2. How did my QB streamers stack up? Let’s recap the week that was, and make some fresh picks! Week 2 Recap Streamer of the Week: 10.1 FP…...