The best D/ST matchups of the fantasy finals belong to the elite defenses. The Browns, Bills, Jets, and 49ers all play teams in the top five by OPRK. And now you want me to bail you out?! I’ve been begging you to roster the Browns D/ST since Week 2! It’s all right. If you didn’t stash the Bills, Jets, or Eagles like I’ve suggested over…...

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. This week’s edition preps us for the final week of the fantasy football season, and it will mainly focus on two dimensions: what is good…...

It all comes down to this. Week 17 is fantasy football championship week. This is the final step on the journey that began back in August. (Unless you’re in one of those leagues that plays on until Week 18, in which case I salute you and am scared of you in equal measure.) Congratulations on beating the odds and making it this far. But don’t…...

Bjorn Yang-Vaernet examines which players on the waiver wire are worth prioritizing for Week 17. Merry Christmas! I hope everyone was able to eat some good meals and spend some quality time with friends and family — between all the football games, of course. Beyond the holidays, we are also heading into the final week of playoffs for the majority of leagues. Congrats to those…...

Merry Christmas to everyone in the RotoViz community. I hope you’ve enjoyed the Monday articles, with a bit of a pod emphasis. A large chunk of the draft pods featured teams that went on to a good deal of success, including a BBM semifinal squad with Ben Gretch on Stealing Bananas, a BBM semifinal squad with Peter Overzet on the Best Ball Banana Stand, and…...

The Wrong Read has had many lives — first as a reflection on insights from the RotoViz podcasts; then as a freeform 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 — mainly…...

RotoViz subscribers know that winning often hinges on meticulous analysis of various factors: player statistics, team dynamics, and even the whims of Mother Nature herself. Weather conditions, often overlooked, can play a pivotal role in any game’s outcome. A few of the most well-known and craziest examples include the Fog Bowl, the Tuck Rule Game, and the Ice Bowl. The NFL is unique in its…...

The Wrong Read has had many lives — first as a reflection on insights from the RotoViz podcasts; then as a freeform 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 — mainly…...

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 half an…...

The Wrong Read has had many lives — first as a reflection on insights from the RotoViz podcasts; then as a freeform 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 — mainly…...

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 to…...

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. Week 15 is in the books, and…...

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 half an…...

It was a huge week for RotoViz squads in fantasy tournaments, which makes the semifinals even more fun for our community. In today’s edition of the Zero RB Universe, I’ll again be using the tools like the Weekly Stat Explorer, NFL Player Explorer, Strength of Schedule Streamer, and Advanced Stats Explorer to give a combined picture of usage and matchup. How do the evolving workload…...

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 NJOKU AND FLACCO ARE FEELING THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT David Njoku has gained 33% of his yardage and three of his five…...

It’s crunch time ladies and gentlemen. We’ve all had seasons that felt like we were destined to win it all only to have our rosters fall apart in the final weeks due to injury and bad matchups. D/ST is one position where we get to control our destiny. When Ja’Marr Chase gets injured in Week 15, there’s not a lot we can do. But when Easton…...

We are so close to the end, I can almost taste it. There is just one round of games left to navigate before we start crowning fantasy champions. It’s been a slog, with injuries destroying so many seasons it’s hard to keep track of them all. But we are so close. Maybe you need a little helping hand this week with your roster, especially at…...

Bjorn Yang-Vaernet examines which players on the waiver wire are worth prioritizing for Week 16 and highlights others to preemptively stash. I want to share a quick story. In my oldest home league, I was down about 40 fantasy points heading into the Week 15 weekend — we have two playoff rounds of two weeks. I had also just lost Justin Herbert for the season…...

“Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn’t take it.” ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Whew! Nothing highlights the agony and the ecstasy of fantasy football quite like a high-scoring playoff week where healthy first-round picks score anywhere from 41 to 0.4, where Josh Allen completes seven passes but Baker Mayfield throws for 381 and 4, where Jaylen…...