Amari Cooper was the first wide receiver selected in this year’s NFL draft, and expectations are high for his rookie season. Team RotoViz likes Cooper a lot as well – perhaps too much. Here’s our staff composite projection for Cooper’s rookie season. Player Proj Finish FP Tar Rec Yds YPR TD Amari Cooper WR18 226.6 132 82 1019 12.5 6.6 On the surface, that seems like…...

Cheap pass catchers. It’s what Dire Straits was really singing about. Here’s a quick rundown of some wide receiver values, courtesy of the ADP Arbitrage App. Vincent Jackson vs. Marques Colston I’ve been waiting for Colston to reach the end of the line for a while now, but he’s so cheap he’s become a good investment. Our staff projections have them finishing within a few points…...

Jared Abbrederis is on the roster bubble, in part because Jeff Janis is “way ahead of him.” Might want to acquire Janis if your bench has room. If you look at all the non-Jordy Nelson, non-Randall Cobb receivers in Green Bay, Janis looks to be the best of the bunch. Player Ht Wt 40 SpdScore Explosion msRECYDS msTDs TD/G Jeff Janis 75 219 4.42 115 160.5 0.45 0.45…...

I just overpaid for Christine Michael in a dynasty league by giving Sigmund Bloom a 2017 first round pick in exchange for Michael. Even though I overpaid, I went into this trade with eyes wide open, so let me explain how I looked at it and why I did it. First, here’s what the trade calculator in the Dynasty App has to say about Michael’s value…...

When Antonio Gates was suspended by the league for four games, everyone’s immediate reaction was to invest in Ladarius Green. However, as I said on the latest RotoViz Report, this should be a cue to draft Keenan Allen. I figured it would be good to flesh out the argument I made for him. Allen is Already a Big Part of the Offense Instead of investing in a player we think should…...

Brandin Cooks sure seems like a number one dynasty wide receiver. He’s phenomenally young, impossibly athletic, and he owns one of the most productive college seasons of all time. By some accounts, he was perhaps the best small WR prospect ever. He has an elite quarterback in Drew Brees, and his only real competition for targets…is now playing for the Seahawks.  So why is he being selected…...

What did Marqise Lee ever do to the dynasty community? Around this time last year he was being drafted number 12 overall in rookie drafts, which plenty of highly respected experts considered a steal. Only a year later he’s sporting an ADP of 144.2 in dynasty start-ups. He’s being drafted as the 59th wide receiver behind guys like Cordarrelle Patterson and just before something called…...

Not all touches are created equal. You’ve probably heard this before if you have played fantasy football for any length of time. For running backs in particular, there are two situations fantasy owners keep track of: third downs and in the red-zone. Just how important are those touches, and can it tell us anything for 2015? That’s precisely what I set out to discover…. Membership...

Dwayne Bowe From ProFootballTalk.com: “That’s what I’m going to show you guys,” Bowe said, via Cleveland.com. “It’s going to be exciting, especially with a new uniform, a new city, new everything, I’m going to feel good. With Alex Mack and Joe Thomas, we’re going to have a lot of time to hit that deep ball even in the red zone. I never had a quarterback…...

The 2014 wide receiver class may very well go down as the best of all time. But that doesn’t change the fact that some of the WRs are bound to have disappointing careers. Paul Richardson seems likely to be a bust after re-tearing his ACL. If thinking rationally, Cody Latimer should be expected to bust. How about this one: Jarvis Landry. Here are three simple reasons why I expect Landry to…...

As both the NFL and fantasy seasons are on summer vacation, I thought I’d take a quick look at some deep sleeper wide receivers that might, maybe, possibly, have some fantasy relevance later. Odds are against these players; think of this exercise as updating your emergency waiver claim lists. To get an opportunity, these players would need to flat-out dominate in training camp, or benefit from an injury…...

The first article of this series introduced the concept of using High Floor and Boom/Bust “prototypes” to better understand the week-to-week risk a player brings to your roster. The rest of the series will step through the wide receiver tiers, WR1 down to WR4. The following focuses on the WR1’s…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member?...

After several years in RB purgatory, Doug Martin seems on the verge of bouncing back for the 2015 season. Justin Bailey has been doing a great job of keeping us updated on relevant news around the NFL. One of his recent blurbs discussed a possible renaissance…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

From Raiders.com: “I think Amari Cooper is going to rip it up, just watching what we’ve seen from him in Oakland, his route running has even improved from the time he left Alabama,” Brooks said. “He is going to be a guy who right now comes in and plays.” “He’s destined for a Day 1 break out,” Burleson said. “Not saying he’s Marvin Harrison, but…...

We began with the candidates ranked No. 15 through No. 11. In that article I presented an evidence-based methodology for finding RB gems in the middle and late rounds. We then continued our countdown with No. 10 through No. 6 and found three rookies with a chance to pay immediate dividends. As we finish today with the final five, we’ll end up with three teams…...

One of the cool things about the new composite projections we’ve been working on is it allows us to sort the players by rank in a given category. Even cooler, we can sort players by the difference between their ADP and projected finish to see who are the biggest bargains or the worst values. I did just that at the wide receiver position. The three…...

I like to build my draft board taking into account a variety of evidence-based approaches. In trying to determine picks at the very top of the draft, this means making sure as much evidence as possible points in the same direction. For this study, I wanted to use the RotoViz apps to discover which receivers had the highest upside. As a simple means of identifying…...

I think the Similarity Scores App is pretty amazing, and it tends to get overlooked around here, among all the other great tools and content. I recommend you read this post by The Douche, which tells you everything you need to know about how the app works. But here’s the nutshell version: It’s not perfect. It doesn’t know everything. It probably just knows a lot…...