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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Structural Drafting and Detours for Value in the FFPC Superflex Best Ball Tournament

Shawn Siegele breaks down an FFPC Superflex Best Ball Tournament draft and explores the intersection of structure and value. The FFPC Best Ball Tournament has been one of my favorite formats to draft this offseason, and its popularity suggests a bigger tournament next year. Until then, I love the intimate 4,752-entry field and compelling $10,000 grand prize. I’ll be drafting fairly heavily in this format,…...

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Best Ball Workshop: Can We Rescue a Weird QB Build in the FFPC Superflex Tournament?

Can Shawn Siegele and Ben Gretch finish off their contrarian Superflex Best Ball build in style? Shawn breaks down Rounds 9 through 20 and further explores the strategy that could lead to a tournament championship. In Part 1, we examined the key tactics for building out your Superflex Best Ball roster in the FFPC Tournament. To add a personal flair, I used a recent Stealing…...

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Fixing Hyperfragile: Dominating with a Contrarian Approach

Best Ball Mania III is a 451,600-entry tournament with a 470-team Week 17 final. Because of this, finding ways to build high-upside teams that are meaningfully different from the field is of the utmost importance. Accounting for the fact that a large percentage of the prize pool is dedicated to the top few places (38% is for the top-five finishers) is a core facet of…...

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Best Ball Workshop: Early Round Picks and Contrarian Tactics in an FFPC Superflex Best Ball Tournament Draft

Shawn Siegele breaks down the early picks in an FFPC Superflex Best Ball Tournament draft and explores contrarian tactics from an unfortunate draft slot. Last year, Blair Andrews and I used the FFPC Roster Construction Explorer to win a nice little chunk of money in the Best Ball Superflex formats, and we tended to choose the prize option with a bunch of $35 credits. Those…...

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How to Inexpensively Build Uniqueness and Upside Into Your Best Ball Roster

Shawn Siegele uses the Best Ball Explorers and best ball research concepts from Michael Dubner and Blair Andrews to build a case for some unlikely options. Getting to co-manage drafts with some of the top minds in the game is one of my favorite parts of working with best ball gurus like Conor O’Driscoll, Michael Dubner, and Zachary Krueger. I’m in drafts with all of…...

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Is Bully Tight End Viable in Best Ball Mania 3?

As a former tight end, I’ve always had an affinity for using two elite tight ends. In Madden, I’m notorious among my friends for getting two elite ones, like George Kittle and Kyle Pitts, and using their combination of receiving and blocking ability to lock the defense into one personnel and smash them in a hurry-up offense. In short, I’m a full-on tight end nerd…....

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An Unusual Anchor RB Approach With Even More Upside

Best Ball Mania III is a 451,600-entry tournament with a 470-team Week 17 final. Because of this, finding ways to build high-upside teams that are meaningfully different from the field is of the utmost importance. Accounting for the fact that a large percentage of the prize pool is dedicated to the top few places (38% is for the top-five finishers) is a core facet of…...

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Dynasty Superflex Workshop: Perpetual Reloading – Blockbuster Trade Tactics

Shawn Siegele explores the dynamics of a blockbuster superflex trade and looks at three scenarios where you can craft huge win-win moves that shake the foundations of your league. In the Dynasty Workshop, we explore how to create a Permanent Championship Window through a process I call Perpetual Reloading. We’ve been working through these lessons in real leagues from the RotoViz TriFlex format at the…...

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Dynasty Workshop: Permanent Championship Window – Rookie Draft Trades Edition

Shawn Siegele breaks down the trades from a RotoViz TriFlex rookie draft and explains how the right rookie draft tactics can help you create a permanent championship window in dynasty. Rookie draft tactics and dynasty trade tactics are both part of my Dynasty Workshop: The Permanent Championship Window, and they intersect during this glorious month of wall-to-wall rookie drafts. In today’s exercise, I’ll go through…...

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Tier Breaks, Land Mines, and Crazy Values in Round 2 of RotoViz TriFlex Rookie Drafts

Shawn Siegele breaks down the second round of RotoViz TriFlex rookie leagues, including all of the tier breaks, trade opportunities, and player targets. Yesterday I looked at Round 1 of RotoViz TriFlex for two reasons. First, I love the format. These rookie drafts have been among the most fun I’ve had playing fantasy. Second, the format is very similar to the majority of leagues that…...

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Breaking Down Rookie Draft ADP: How to Navigate the 6 Mini-Tiers in Round 1

Shawn Siegele breaks down the first round of RotoViz TriFlex rookie leagues, including all of the tier breaks, trade opportunities, and player targets. We’ve been talking a lot about the RotoViz TriFlex format because we’re participating in rookie drafts this week, but the best thing about the TriFlex is the similarity of the  format to most of the new leagues forming for readers and listeners…....

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Don’t Overthink Uniqueness in a Zero RB Build

Best Ball Mania III is a 451,600-entry tournament with a 470-team Week 17 final. Because of this, finding ways to build high-upside teams that are meaningfully different from the field is of the utmost importance. Accounting for the fact that a large percentage of the prize pool is dedicated to the top few places (38% is for the top-five finishers) is a core facet of…...

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Drafting Early Has Its Advantages Too: Optimal Draft Month for Best Ball Tournaments

Best Ball platforms are starting to release their big tournaments: Underdog’s Best Ball Mania 3 tournament, Drafters’ Million Best Ball Championship, FFPC’s Best Ball Tournament, and DraftKings will likely follow soon as well. Michael Dubner examines when we should draft our best ball teams in order to maximize our odds of finishing in first-place. There are a lot of nuances that go into winning a…...

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Why A.J Brown’s Move to Philadelphia Could Vault Him Into the First Round in Best Ball Drafts

We are off and running into the best part of the fantasy football calendar — draft season. 2022 should be the most exciting year yet with best ball tournament prizes growing larger on FFPC and Underdog. Michael Dubner has laid out some incredible thoughts on the optimal time to draft these tournament teams. Conor O’Driscoll has presented a very simple strategy for building a unique…...

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Traded All Your Top Picks Away? Target These Discount Versions of First-Round Rookie Stars

Shawn Siegele looks at some of his favorite discount options if you can’t afford the first-round stars in rookie drafts. RotoViz TriFlex rookie drafts started on Saturday, and they’ve been absolutely crazy. In my three leagues, I must have sent 100 trade offers. Ben Gretch and I executed five first round trades, moving down three times, out once (for 2023 picks), and then back up…...

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Best Ball Tournament Workshop: Why Best Ball Mania III Hinges on the Tight End Position

Blair Andrews explores the optimal tight end strategy for Best Ball Mania III and other tournaments. Are elite-TE builds still elite? Best Ball Mania III has just opened with a $10 million prize pool, including $2 million to first place, with $1 million each going to the regular season champion and the second place finisher. RotoViz has also just released our new Underdog Best Ball…...

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3 Veterans Who Won the 2022 NFL Draft, and 3 Who Were Not as Fortunate (Plus 3 to Watch Closely)

Angad Uppal examines the veterans who gained the most from the 2022 NFL Draft, along with those whose value took big hits, and some other veterans to keep an eye on over the coming months. The NFL Draft has shuffled a lot of our rookie values. Now that we know landing spots, rankings are beginning to coalesce in surprising ways. Players we once thought of…...

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Drafting in an FFPC TriFlex Dynasty Startup? Here Are 3 Big Trends You Need to Know in 2022

Editor’s Note: Monty Phan is one of the top players in the FFPC with titles in the redraft, dynasty, and best ball. He was the 2017 points champion in the regular season of the Main Event.  While studying the intensity with which her father was monitoring the NFL Draft last week, my teenage daughter asked me, with equal parts fascination and irritation, “Why do you…...

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Rookie Draft Sleepers: The Next Elijah Mitchell Could Be One of These Deep RB Candidates

Shawn Siegele examines the situation for his favorite sleeper running backs and explains why one of them could be the next Elijah Mitchell. We’ve arrived at the best time of the year with a flood of rookie drafts taking place and startups launching every few seconds. I can’t wait for RotoViz TriFlex rookie drafts to start this weekend over at the FFPC, and I’ll be…...

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Underdog Roster Construction Explorer

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Structural Drafting and Detours for Value in the FFPC Superflex Best Ball Tournament

Shawn Siegele breaks down an FFPC Superflex Best Ball Tournament draft and explores the intersection of structure and value. The FFPC Best Ball Tournament has been one of my favorite formats to draft this offseason, and its popularity suggests a bigger tournament next year. Until then, I love the intimate 4,752-entry field and compelling $10,000 grand prize. I’ll be drafting fairly heavily in this format,…...

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Best Ball Workshop: Can We Rescue a Weird QB Build in the FFPC Superflex Tournament?

Can Shawn Siegele and Ben Gretch finish off their contrarian Superflex Best Ball build in style? Shawn breaks down Rounds 9 through 20 and further explores the strategy that could lead to a tournament championship. In Part 1, we examined the key tactics for building out your Superflex Best Ball roster in the FFPC Tournament. To add a personal flair, I used a recent Stealing…...

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Fixing Hyperfragile: Dominating with a Contrarian Approach

Best Ball Mania III is a 451,600-entry tournament with a 470-team Week 17 final. Because of this, finding ways to build high-upside teams that are meaningfully different from the field is of the utmost importance. Accounting for the fact that a large percentage of the prize pool is dedicated to the top few places (38% is for the top-five finishers) is a core facet of…...

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Best Ball Workshop: Early Round Picks and Contrarian Tactics in an FFPC Superflex Best Ball Tournament Draft

Shawn Siegele breaks down the early picks in an FFPC Superflex Best Ball Tournament draft and explores contrarian tactics from an unfortunate draft slot. Last year, Blair Andrews and I used the FFPC Roster Construction Explorer to win a nice little chunk of money in the Best Ball Superflex formats, and we tended to choose the prize option with a bunch of $35 credits. Those…...

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How to Inexpensively Build Uniqueness and Upside Into Your Best Ball Roster

Shawn Siegele uses the Best Ball Explorers and best ball research concepts from Michael Dubner and Blair Andrews to build a case for some unlikely options. Getting to co-manage drafts with some of the top minds in the game is one of my favorite parts of working with best ball gurus like Conor O’Driscoll, Michael Dubner, and Zachary Krueger. I’m in drafts with all of…...

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Is Bully Tight End Viable in Best Ball Mania 3?

As a former tight end, I’ve always had an affinity for using two elite tight ends. In Madden, I’m notorious among my friends for getting two elite ones, like George Kittle and Kyle Pitts, and using their combination of receiving and blocking ability to lock the defense into one personnel and smash them in a hurry-up offense. In short, I’m a full-on tight end nerd…....

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An Unusual Anchor RB Approach With Even More Upside

Best Ball Mania III is a 451,600-entry tournament with a 470-team Week 17 final. Because of this, finding ways to build high-upside teams that are meaningfully different from the field is of the utmost importance. Accounting for the fact that a large percentage of the prize pool is dedicated to the top few places (38% is for the top-five finishers) is a core facet of…...

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Dynasty Superflex Workshop: Perpetual Reloading – Blockbuster Trade Tactics

Shawn Siegele explores the dynamics of a blockbuster superflex trade and looks at three scenarios where you can craft huge win-win moves that shake the foundations of your league. In the Dynasty Workshop, we explore how to create a Permanent Championship Window through a process I call Perpetual Reloading. We’ve been working through these lessons in real leagues from the RotoViz TriFlex format at the…...

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Dynasty Workshop: Permanent Championship Window – Rookie Draft Trades Edition

Shawn Siegele breaks down the trades from a RotoViz TriFlex rookie draft and explains how the right rookie draft tactics can help you create a permanent championship window in dynasty. Rookie draft tactics and dynasty trade tactics are both part of my Dynasty Workshop: The Permanent Championship Window, and they intersect during this glorious month of wall-to-wall rookie drafts. In today’s exercise, I’ll go through…...

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Tier Breaks, Land Mines, and Crazy Values in Round 2 of RotoViz TriFlex Rookie Drafts

Shawn Siegele breaks down the second round of RotoViz TriFlex rookie leagues, including all of the tier breaks, trade opportunities, and player targets. Yesterday I looked at Round 1 of RotoViz TriFlex for two reasons. First, I love the format. These rookie drafts have been among the most fun I’ve had playing fantasy. Second, the format is very similar to the majority of leagues that…...

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Breaking Down Rookie Draft ADP: How to Navigate the 6 Mini-Tiers in Round 1

Shawn Siegele breaks down the first round of RotoViz TriFlex rookie leagues, including all of the tier breaks, trade opportunities, and player targets. We’ve been talking a lot about the RotoViz TriFlex format because we’re participating in rookie drafts this week, but the best thing about the TriFlex is the similarity of the  format to most of the new leagues forming for readers and listeners…....

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Don’t Overthink Uniqueness in a Zero RB Build

Best Ball Mania III is a 451,600-entry tournament with a 470-team Week 17 final. Because of this, finding ways to build high-upside teams that are meaningfully different from the field is of the utmost importance. Accounting for the fact that a large percentage of the prize pool is dedicated to the top few places (38% is for the top-five finishers) is a core facet of…...

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Drafting Early Has Its Advantages Too: Optimal Draft Month for Best Ball Tournaments

Best Ball platforms are starting to release their big tournaments: Underdog’s Best Ball Mania 3 tournament, Drafters’ Million Best Ball Championship, FFPC’s Best Ball Tournament, and DraftKings will likely follow soon as well. Michael Dubner examines when we should draft our best ball teams in order to maximize our odds of finishing in first-place. There are a lot of nuances that go into winning a…...

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Why A.J Brown’s Move to Philadelphia Could Vault Him Into the First Round in Best Ball Drafts

We are off and running into the best part of the fantasy football calendar — draft season. 2022 should be the most exciting year yet with best ball tournament prizes growing larger on FFPC and Underdog. Michael Dubner has laid out some incredible thoughts on the optimal time to draft these tournament teams. Conor O’Driscoll has presented a very simple strategy for building a unique…...

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Traded All Your Top Picks Away? Target These Discount Versions of First-Round Rookie Stars

Shawn Siegele looks at some of his favorite discount options if you can’t afford the first-round stars in rookie drafts. RotoViz TriFlex rookie drafts started on Saturday, and they’ve been absolutely crazy. In my three leagues, I must have sent 100 trade offers. Ben Gretch and I executed five first round trades, moving down three times, out once (for 2023 picks), and then back up…...

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Best Ball Tournament Workshop: Why Best Ball Mania III Hinges on the Tight End Position

Blair Andrews explores the optimal tight end strategy for Best Ball Mania III and other tournaments. Are elite-TE builds still elite? Best Ball Mania III has just opened with a $10 million prize pool, including $2 million to first place, with $1 million each going to the regular season champion and the second place finisher. RotoViz has also just released our new Underdog Best Ball…...

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3 Veterans Who Won the 2022 NFL Draft, and 3 Who Were Not as Fortunate (Plus 3 to Watch Closely)

Angad Uppal examines the veterans who gained the most from the 2022 NFL Draft, along with those whose value took big hits, and some other veterans to keep an eye on over the coming months. The NFL Draft has shuffled a lot of our rookie values. Now that we know landing spots, rankings are beginning to coalesce in surprising ways. Players we once thought of…...

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Drafting in an FFPC TriFlex Dynasty Startup? Here Are 3 Big Trends You Need to Know in 2022

Editor’s Note: Monty Phan is one of the top players in the FFPC with titles in the redraft, dynasty, and best ball. He was the 2017 points champion in the regular season of the Main Event.  While studying the intensity with which her father was monitoring the NFL Draft last week, my teenage daughter asked me, with equal parts fascination and irritation, “Why do you…...

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Rookie Draft Sleepers: The Next Elijah Mitchell Could Be One of These Deep RB Candidates

Shawn Siegele examines the situation for his favorite sleeper running backs and explains why one of them could be the next Elijah Mitchell. We’ve arrived at the best time of the year with a flood of rookie drafts taking place and startups launching every few seconds. I can’t wait for RotoViz TriFlex rookie drafts to start this weekend over at the FFPC, and I’ll be…...

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Underdog Roster Construction Explorer

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Structural Drafting and Detours for Value in the FFPC Superflex Best Ball Tournament

Shawn Siegele breaks down an FFPC Superflex Best Ball Tournament draft and explores the intersection of structure and value. The FFPC Best Ball Tournament has been one of my favorite formats to draft this offseason, and its popularity suggests a bigger tournament next year. Until then, I love the intimate 4,752-entry field and compelling $10,000 grand prize. I’ll be drafting fairly heavily in this format,…...

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Best Ball Workshop: Can We Rescue a Weird QB Build in the FFPC Superflex Tournament?

Can Shawn Siegele and Ben Gretch finish off their contrarian Superflex Best Ball build in style? Shawn breaks down Rounds 9 through 20 and further explores the strategy that could lead to a tournament championship. In Part 1, we examined the key tactics for building out your Superflex Best Ball roster in the FFPC Tournament. To add a personal flair, I used a recent Stealing…...

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Fixing Hyperfragile: Dominating with a Contrarian Approach

Best Ball Mania III is a 451,600-entry tournament with a 470-team Week 17 final. Because of this, finding ways to build high-upside teams that are meaningfully different from the field is of the utmost importance. Accounting for the fact that a large percentage of the prize pool is dedicated to the top few places (38% is for the top-five finishers) is a core facet of…...

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Best Ball Workshop: Early Round Picks and Contrarian Tactics in an FFPC Superflex Best Ball Tournament Draft

Shawn Siegele breaks down the early picks in an FFPC Superflex Best Ball Tournament draft and explores contrarian tactics from an unfortunate draft slot. Last year, Blair Andrews and I used the FFPC Roster Construction Explorer to win a nice little chunk of money in the Best Ball Superflex formats, and we tended to choose the prize option with a bunch of $35 credits. Those…...

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How to Inexpensively Build Uniqueness and Upside Into Your Best Ball Roster

Shawn Siegele uses the Best Ball Explorers and best ball research concepts from Michael Dubner and Blair Andrews to build a case for some unlikely options. Getting to co-manage drafts with some of the top minds in the game is one of my favorite parts of working with best ball gurus like Conor O’Driscoll, Michael Dubner, and Zachary Krueger. I’m in drafts with all of…...

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Is Bully Tight End Viable in Best Ball Mania 3?

As a former tight end, I’ve always had an affinity for using two elite tight ends. In Madden, I’m notorious among my friends for getting two elite ones, like George Kittle and Kyle Pitts, and using their combination of receiving and blocking ability to lock the defense into one personnel and smash them in a hurry-up offense. In short, I’m a full-on tight end nerd…....

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An Unusual Anchor RB Approach With Even More Upside

Best Ball Mania III is a 451,600-entry tournament with a 470-team Week 17 final. Because of this, finding ways to build high-upside teams that are meaningfully different from the field is of the utmost importance. Accounting for the fact that a large percentage of the prize pool is dedicated to the top few places (38% is for the top-five finishers) is a core facet of…...

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Dynasty Superflex Workshop: Perpetual Reloading – Blockbuster Trade Tactics

Shawn Siegele explores the dynamics of a blockbuster superflex trade and looks at three scenarios where you can craft huge win-win moves that shake the foundations of your league. In the Dynasty Workshop, we explore how to create a Permanent Championship Window through a process I call Perpetual Reloading. We’ve been working through these lessons in real leagues from the RotoViz TriFlex format at the…...

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Dynasty Workshop: Permanent Championship Window – Rookie Draft Trades Edition

Shawn Siegele breaks down the trades from a RotoViz TriFlex rookie draft and explains how the right rookie draft tactics can help you create a permanent championship window in dynasty. Rookie draft tactics and dynasty trade tactics are both part of my Dynasty Workshop: The Permanent Championship Window, and they intersect during this glorious month of wall-to-wall rookie drafts. In today’s exercise, I’ll go through…...

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Tier Breaks, Land Mines, and Crazy Values in Round 2 of RotoViz TriFlex Rookie Drafts

Shawn Siegele breaks down the second round of RotoViz TriFlex rookie leagues, including all of the tier breaks, trade opportunities, and player targets. Yesterday I looked at Round 1 of RotoViz TriFlex for two reasons. First, I love the format. These rookie drafts have been among the most fun I’ve had playing fantasy. Second, the format is very similar to the majority of leagues that…...

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Breaking Down Rookie Draft ADP: How to Navigate the 6 Mini-Tiers in Round 1

Shawn Siegele breaks down the first round of RotoViz TriFlex rookie leagues, including all of the tier breaks, trade opportunities, and player targets. We’ve been talking a lot about the RotoViz TriFlex format because we’re participating in rookie drafts this week, but the best thing about the TriFlex is the similarity of the  format to most of the new leagues forming for readers and listeners…....

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Don’t Overthink Uniqueness in a Zero RB Build

Best Ball Mania III is a 451,600-entry tournament with a 470-team Week 17 final. Because of this, finding ways to build high-upside teams that are meaningfully different from the field is of the utmost importance. Accounting for the fact that a large percentage of the prize pool is dedicated to the top few places (38% is for the top-five finishers) is a core facet of…...

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Drafting Early Has Its Advantages Too: Optimal Draft Month for Best Ball Tournaments

Best Ball platforms are starting to release their big tournaments: Underdog’s Best Ball Mania 3 tournament, Drafters’ Million Best Ball Championship, FFPC’s Best Ball Tournament, and DraftKings will likely follow soon as well. Michael Dubner examines when we should draft our best ball teams in order to maximize our odds of finishing in first-place. There are a lot of nuances that go into winning a…...

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Why A.J Brown’s Move to Philadelphia Could Vault Him Into the First Round in Best Ball Drafts

We are off and running into the best part of the fantasy football calendar — draft season. 2022 should be the most exciting year yet with best ball tournament prizes growing larger on FFPC and Underdog. Michael Dubner has laid out some incredible thoughts on the optimal time to draft these tournament teams. Conor O’Driscoll has presented a very simple strategy for building a unique…...

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Traded All Your Top Picks Away? Target These Discount Versions of First-Round Rookie Stars

Shawn Siegele looks at some of his favorite discount options if you can’t afford the first-round stars in rookie drafts. RotoViz TriFlex rookie drafts started on Saturday, and they’ve been absolutely crazy. In my three leagues, I must have sent 100 trade offers. Ben Gretch and I executed five first round trades, moving down three times, out once (for 2023 picks), and then back up…...

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Best Ball Tournament Workshop: Why Best Ball Mania III Hinges on the Tight End Position

Blair Andrews explores the optimal tight end strategy for Best Ball Mania III and other tournaments. Are elite-TE builds still elite? Best Ball Mania III has just opened with a $10 million prize pool, including $2 million to first place, with $1 million each going to the regular season champion and the second place finisher. RotoViz has also just released our new Underdog Best Ball…...

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3 Veterans Who Won the 2022 NFL Draft, and 3 Who Were Not as Fortunate (Plus 3 to Watch Closely)

Angad Uppal examines the veterans who gained the most from the 2022 NFL Draft, along with those whose value took big hits, and some other veterans to keep an eye on over the coming months. The NFL Draft has shuffled a lot of our rookie values. Now that we know landing spots, rankings are beginning to coalesce in surprising ways. Players we once thought of…...

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Drafting in an FFPC TriFlex Dynasty Startup? Here Are 3 Big Trends You Need to Know in 2022

Editor’s Note: Monty Phan is one of the top players in the FFPC with titles in the redraft, dynasty, and best ball. He was the 2017 points champion in the regular season of the Main Event.  While studying the intensity with which her father was monitoring the NFL Draft last week, my teenage daughter asked me, with equal parts fascination and irritation, “Why do you…...

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Rookie Draft Sleepers: The Next Elijah Mitchell Could Be One of These Deep RB Candidates

Shawn Siegele examines the situation for his favorite sleeper running backs and explains why one of them could be the next Elijah Mitchell. We’ve arrived at the best time of the year with a flood of rookie drafts taking place and startups launching every few seconds. I can’t wait for RotoViz TriFlex rookie drafts to start this weekend over at the FFPC, and I’ll be…...

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