The Week 1 avalanche of information is here. Some things we learned this week: Every Giants player can be safely dropped. Cooper Kupp has lost his starting job to Puka Nacua. Josh Allen is a lost cause and Jordan Love should go ahead and send his jacket size to the boys in Canton. Okay, maybe not. Pulling signal from the noise is a difficult task after just…...

In this weekly article, Ryan Ramsarran uses the Advanced Stat Explorer and other RotoViz tools to dive deep into wide receiver usage trends. Usage is key for making waiver wire adds, start/sit decisions, and finding the next blowup WR in DFS. We’ll use the advanced WR metrics to highlight a few buy-low options at the position each week. Welcome back to the wide receiver advanced…...

The pace of play at the team level is instructive in fantasy football. The faster a team is, the more plays they will tend to run. The more plays a team tends to run, the more players on those teams tend to score. Using the RotoViz Pace Tool, we can see the tendencies of every team in these areas so far in 2023. I toggled…...

I can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and I can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and I can do you all three concurrent or consecutive, but I can’t do you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory—they’re all blood, you see. – Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Week 1 brought a torrent of victories for the…...

Yeah, I know. Week 1 was ugly across the board in fantasy football. I am drowning in an underwhelmed sea. The tight end spot was, as usual, no exception. But seriously, if Travis Kelce and Mark Andrews both miss a game, the overall picture will not be pretty. But we go again. With Week 2 fast on the horizon, I offer three names to plug…...

Knowing when to react and when not to is crucial in fantasy football. It’s important to distinguish what is truly significant and what is not. This article aims to clarify what requires our full attention and what can be disregarded. FIVE THINGS THAT MATTER FROM WEEK 1 These items caught my attention over the weekend and are now on my radar, whether they require immediate…...

Bjorn Yang Vaernet examines which players on the waiver wire are worth prioritizing for Week 2 and highlights others to preemptively stash. Week 1 of the NFL season evoked a range of emotions ranging from sadness about J.K. Dobbins going through another major injury (torn Achilles) to joy watching the back-and-forth scoring affair between the Miami Dolphins and the Los Angeles Chargers. However, the main…...

Shawn Siegele details what the 2023 in-season will look like from a tools, articles, and podcasting perspective. With a glorious, harrowing, and occasionally desultory Week 1 mostly in the books, it’s overreaction season. Talking about Week 1 is almost as much fun as watching it play out on the gridiron (especially if you were starting players like Tua Tagovailoa, Tyler Allgeier, and Brandon Aiyuk). During…...

The Wrong Read has had many lives — first as a reflection on insights from the RotoViz podcasts; then as a free-form space for exploring a variety of metrics and strategies. It will likely continue in that latter function, but at least for now — in season — it’s an in-depth matchup lookahead article. Each week I’ll gather advanced stats from our tools to paint…...

It’s never too early to start streaming. Last year in this series I attempted to show why streaming defenses in fantasy football is the superior strategy. First, it requires almost no draft capital to take a D/ST outside the top 12 by ADP with a good Week 1 matchup. Second, it’s the highest-scoring method. As I pointed out last year, starting the Cowboys (D/ST1 overall…...

The Wrong Read has had many lives — first as a reflection on insights from the RotoViz podcasts; then as a free-form space for exploring a variety of metrics and strategies. It will likely continue in that latter function, but at least for now — in season — it’s an in-depth matchup lookahead article. Each week I’ll gather advanced stats from our tools to paint…...

Welcome to Going Deep! This weekly article will make use of charting data, advanced metrics, and other RotoViz tools, specifically the newly released Passing Game Matchup Rater, to help readers better understand the challenges facing wide receivers and tight ends in the coming week. As my process makes heavy use of the Matchup Rater, I’d highly recommend that you set aside a half hour to watch the…...

Hopefully, many of you made it out of your drafts with a genuine stud at tight end. You fine folks will be able to relax during the 2023 NFL Fantasy season, safe in the knowledge that you have the correct answer at fantasy sport’s most volatile position. Congratulations, people. Enjoy cheering on Travis Kelce, whooping with delight after Mark Andrews, and or having a hunk…...

In a bit of a weird Championship Weekend, the Eagles took down a one-sided affair while the Chiefs pulled out the win in another tight battle against Cincinnati. Super Bowl LVII sets up as a matchup between what have been the best two teams from each conference for the majority of this season. Mahomes’ Magic Proves Just Enough For K.C. It turns out, not even…...

Shawn Siegele uses the RotoViz tools to break down the AFC and NFC Championship games. The wide variety of playoff contests has added another layer of excitement over the last several weeks. Our preferred approach in early Underdog leagues was to load up with 49ers/Bengals rosters, and those teams have both advanced at much more palatable prices than the Chiefs and Eagles. If Tee Higgins…...

Occasionally, a team comes out of nowhere, gets hot at the right time, defies the odds, and makes a miracle run to the Super Bowl. This season will not be one such occasion. The best teams in the league took care of business this weekend and will meet up in next week’s conference championship contests. The Chiefs, Eagles, Bengals, and 49ers will be this season’s…...

With the regular season over and the weekly advanced stats series at a close, we look back at the fantastic 18-week 2022 NFL season and review our final takeaways from an amazing year. As always, we’ll look at Routes Run, Air Yards, Expected Points, and some other advanced statistics, but with a changed format instead of the usual structure. Star Receivers With New Quarterbacks There…...