Welcome to the RB Opportunity Report. The goal of this series is to go beyond raw carries, targets and yardage stats to look at the true opportunity each running back had to score fantasy points each week, and what they did with it…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

Fantasy football news from week 3, including Roddy White, Andre Johnson, Cincinnati running backs, and more. Dorial Green-Beckham Zero, two, three. That’s DGB’s targets by week. Harry Douglas is soaking up a lot of targets, but has been very inefficient with them. Justin Hunter hasn’t done much to impress with his work either. DGB made the most of his week 3 workload, and is still a recommended…...

In our series of Opportunity Reports, RotoViz will examine the weekly production of position groups through the lens of the Fantasy Efficiency App. A primer on how to use this app can be found in week one’s report. We’re examining opportunity and efficiency using historical line of scrimmage data to establish the expected fantasy point value of targets (and comparing actual fantasy points to that expected value)…....

After the first three games of the season, some trends are starting to emerge. Which players have been the most consistent so far? Early Season Consistency Tight End At the tight end position, four players have posted 10 or more PPR points in all three games: Rob Gronkowski, Jason Witten, Jordan Reed, and Eric Ebron.  The first two names aren’t a surprise, but the second two probably are. Reed…...

Two out of three weeks my Fantasy Football Players Championship (FFPC) team has been the highest scoring team in this league. In Week 2, my team wasn’t able to best the strong performance by another squad with Allen Robinson, Julian Edelman, and Rob Gronkowski. This week my team was operating on all cylinders and dominated my opponent. If you are new to the series you…...

It took three weeks, but I finally made a profit at FanDuel! Any win truly feels good, as you’ll see below. Let’s recap how I did. Bankroll Progress Started With: $1000 Current Total: $917 Hey profit is profit right? This was actually shaping up to be an incredibly profitable week, but I lost about 100 dollars between the two night games that were played. Let’s…...

Or, “What is an ‘Antonio Andrews?’” If Week 2 was a bloodbath, Week 3 was a bubble bath. Only Ben Roethlisberger suffered an injury of any serious consequence, and it doesn’t affect the dynasty stock of Antonio Brown, Le’Veon Bell, Martavis Bryant, et al. one bit. The good teams mostly won and the bad teams mostly lost, but some sophomore running backs put on surprising…...

  Big Ben Roethlisberger, Pittsburgh’s quarterback, was injured Week 3. His knee was bent at an awkward angle, and when all of the dust settled he was diagnosed with a Grade 2 MCL (medial collateral ligament) injury and a bone bruise of his left (forward when throwing) knee. His ACL was not torn. MCL Injuries The MCL is the ligament on the inside of the…...

Fantasy football is a funny game. There are generally two things that will determine if a player is successful in fantasy: talent and opportunity. The latter is fairly easy to evaluate. Does a certain running back receive carries? Is wide receiver x targeted frequently in the passing game? It is the former that is tricky, and can usually get us into trouble. Take a look…...

Here are the players I am targeting on the waiver wire for Week 4. If you’re in a deeper league, consider these trade targets instead of free agent acquisitions. Over the course of the season, @RIPatriot (Aaron Butler) or I will provide our overreactions every Monday morning to what happened in the NFL that week. One of us might show up in the other’s article…...

Welcome to The Position Report, the weekly column that is scheduled to come out on Thursday or Friday or Saturday morning at the absolute latest but because of other writing commitments and end-of-week procrastination comes out on Sunday morning a few hours before kickoff when it’s least useful to anyone. Fortunately, no one reads it. As I start writing this, it once again is literally…...

In addition to playing around with the projections, the Game Splits App, and understanding game flow, one of the ways I like to zero in on running backs for a given week is to roll up my sleeves and dig into the offensive and defensive line match-ups. While it’s beneficial to have a good grasp on team level rushing metrics, it’s just as important to…...

We’re more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can’t give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead As everyone knows, and…...

I’ve been trying to think of how to describe Week 2 for a while now and have decided a picture might work better…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

Week 2 Recap Week 2 was a crazy with several games going against the script projected by Vegas lines. As a result my Week 2 picks were shaky, especially the Saints stack of Drew Brees, Brandin Cooks, and Brandon Coleman. My daily fantasy football projections from the machine learning model also had a miserable week, with only the wide receiver position having an R-squared value over 0.25. However, that’s…...

This is the second of a weekly series examining the actual fantasy production of wide receivers compared to what they would have been expected to do based on the targets that they saw. Got it? We determine that second part using line of scrimmage data. For a more detailed explanation, here’s the first iteration of this article. Here are the main terms you need to know:…...