Last night I was crunching some numbers using the FFPC API when I decided to check out how Zero RB teams in those drafts were filling their RB spots. I defined a team as being Zero RB-ish if it had one or fewer RBs through five rounds. I could have been more strict about interpretation of the strategy but I figured that would give me a…...

Recently, I argued that Cam Newton is all upside, a true bargain at his ADP. Then Kelvin Benjamin tore his ACL, and now he’s going to miss the whole season. Welp. I say welp, but really I still think Cam Newton is a bargain despite Benjamin’s injury. In fact I think he’s a bigger bargain because of it. Really, most of my original argument for Newton still holds…....

This article is an update to the piece I posted a few weeks ago about which players were ending up on a lot of teams of high volume high stakes owners. My assumptions for the article are simple – a fantasy owner that has multiple entries on a high stakes platform like FFPC (and in this case I’m using owners with at least four teams as the…...

I feel like we can win any game with [him]. [He] is a special guy. … obviously has a skill set that I feel like is very much suited for what we do. He can handle it mentally, and obviously, physically. That’s pretty good praise from a head coach for their starting quarterback. Except that wasn’t the starting quarterback Jay Gruden was talking about. It…...

The Contingency Plan is a series I developed after listening to the Numbers Game Podcast with Kevin Cole and Matthew Freedman. If this is your first time checking it out, you should read the maiden voyage piece to get yourself acquainted with exactly what it is I am trying to do. Today, I’ll look at the AFC South. Indianapolis Colts The Scenario Frank Gore succumbs (finally) to his advanced…...

Ten fantasy football news items from the past week, including Roddy White, Brian Quick, Kony Ealy, Markus Wheaton, Rashad Jennings, and more. Kony Ealy Should see a much larger role now that Frank Alexander is out for the season. Eric Braun highlighted Ealy’s potential back in May. Brian Quick Has been the Rams best wide receiver so far. He’s our WR36…at a WR53 price. NAME POS…...

Here at RotoViz headquarters, we’ve been busy doing what every red-blooded American has been: discussing the fantasy prospects for the Carolina Panther’s Devin Funchess. After about 100 emails we decided an article was in order. Here are some thoughts from the RotoViz Writer’s Roundtable.  “Worst Case Scenario”  Kelvin Benjamin is vacating 145 targets. 145! The easy – and maybe right – argument is to say…...

The Contingency Plan is a series I developed after listening to the Numbers Game Podcast with Kevin Cole and Matthew Freedman. If this is your first time checking it out, you should read the maiden voyage piece to get yourself acquainted with exactly what it is I am trying to do. Today, I’ll look at the AFC West. Denver Broncos The Scenario Emmanuel Sanders’ current hamstring injury lingers into…...

I recently appeared on RotoViz Radio: A Football Podcast to discuss the NFC South with Matthew Freedman and share how I see things shaking out this year. The fantastic apps here at RotoViz like the Best Ball ADP App and the Cheat Sheet Calculator are powered by the projections of RotoViz contributors. If you want to take a look at the Atlanta Falcons, here you go…....

Jordy Nelson is done for the season. Whew. Quick reactions can reveal the way people naturally think about things, making what seem like logical, hypothetical correlations based on a significant event that just happened. Yesterday, when news broke of Nelson (probably) tearing his ACL, the reactions were immediate, plentiful, and full of narratives based on assumptions. Using the Game Splits App, the AYA App, a dash of…...

“When Odysseus heard the thunder of Zeus, he was pleased and knew that the day of punishment had come” -Homer Earlier this summer I wrote about how perception of the Rams offense was so negative that every player was a value at their ADP. Through Labor Day, the Chiefs offense can’t seem to shed a similar negative perception, causing all of their weapons to be…...

What strategy should I use in shallow standard leagues? Can you use Zero RB in standard? These are the two questions I see most frequently on our message boards. As the fantasy industry moves toward deeper PPR formats, these types of leagues can get short shrift. This is unfortunate since standard is still the format for a huge number of fantasy players, and also because…...

Tyrod Taylor From Syracuse.com: Cleveland — Rex Ryan had heard enough quarterback questions. He’s been answering them for weeks in Buffalo and did the same for years in New York. So after the Buffalo Bills‘ 11-10 preseason win over the Cleveland Browns, Ryan confirmed what he’s been hinting at: He won’t announce a starting quarterback until the team takes the field to play the Indianapolis…...

There’s no question that staying healthy is a key to fantasy success, and that timely free agent pickups can occasionally be worth as much or more than a first round pick. But consistent fantasy champions have one characteristic in common. They dominate their leaguemates in Rounds 6 through 10. To win these all-important stanzas, you must have the courage to take swings at Breakout RBs…...

This is a continuation of a series covering the top scoring PPR finishes of the past 15 years. The Quarterback position is the easiest to predict year after year; the same QBs have dominated the top spots. There are patterns in positional ranking which makes it an interesting metric for predicting future success. The Quick stats From 2000-2014, 15 NFL seasons: PPR scoring (Passing TD 4 pts,…...

I don’t think I published anything about Emmanuel Sanders last offseason, but trust me when I say I talked a lot of crap about him. Most of that revolved around him being worse than Eric Decker, never having a game with more than 100 receiving yards or multiple touchdowns, and generally not being very efficient despite playing with a quality quarterback in Ben Roethlisberger. Then he finished the…...