Dr. Jeffrey E. Budoff is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon who wades through misleading coach-speak and vague team injury information to offer advice for your fantasy team…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

Every week there is going to be something that happens in the NFL that causes you to re-evaluate your line of thinking for fantasy. Is the random backup running back that vultures two touchdowns actually viable? Why did the slot receiver get 12 targets this week? And my personal favorite: Is team x actually as good or bad as they looked on Sunday? All of…...

Here are the players I am targeting on the waiver wire after Week 2. If you’re in a deeper league, consider these trade targets instead of free agent acquisitions. Over the course of the season, @14TeamMocker or I will provide our reactions every Monday morning to what happened in the NFL that week. One of us might show up in the other’s article to tell…...

Fantasy Football news and notes from week 2, featuring Rishard Matthews, Giovani Bernard, Amari Cooper, and more. Rishard Matthews For the second straight game, Matthews outplayed Kenny Stills. Matthews is up to 10 catches for 149 yards and a touchdown vs. just three for 20 for Stills. Presumably Miami has heard “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” and will continue rolling with Matthews. I’m looking to…...

Welcome to The Position Report, the weekly column that gives you “more variety than you’re used to.” I’m not really satisfied with that joke, but I have to use it because my wife said, “I have a joke for your Position Report,” and then she said that tagline, followed by, “You’re going to use that, right?” This is me using what my wife gives me…....

The 2015 NFL season officially kicked off on Thursday September 10th, 2015 in a prime time match up between the New England Patriots and the Pittsburgh Steelers. The journey for fantasy football owners was about to begin again. Managing a redraft team is like stepping on an escalator. The NFL season doesn’t stop. There are lineup decisions that have to be made whether you want…...

Last week was a learning experience. If you had a bad week 1, don’t worry. It’s a long season and week 1 is probably the hardest week of the year since we don’t really know what teams are going to do in live action. For those that pay close attention, DFS should get easier as teams become more predictable. I recommend scaling your money in…...

A contemporary Canadian poet by the name of Aubrey Graham once penned the line: “buzz so big I could probably sell a blank disk” I cannot recall a more perfect application of this lyric than to the NFL draft status of Ole Miss wide receiver Laquon Treadwell; the hype around him seems to have reached a point where his on-field production is considered borderline-irrelevant. For…...

Week 1 Recap Last week was a good week for my machine learning model, as I leveraged the model results to create three successful DraftKings lineups that propelled me to a nice week 1 profit. My best lineup included two of my week 1 picks, Chris Ivory and Jason Witten, as well as a Matt Ryan and Julio Jones stack which had a very high floor according to…...

So here we are. Week 1 is in the books, and I am completely out of ideas. I was procrastinating with authority, watching both The Mindy Project AND Difficult People, when I realized that not only was I EXACTLY what Hulu was looking for, a guy who had both just graduated from the coveted 18-34 demographic and has no brand loyalty, but I was settling…...

Each week his season, a group of RotoViz writers writers will offer their Play of the Week. We’re tracking the value of our recommendations, using a DraftKings Millionaire Maker lineup metric, but we think these picks will also be valuable for seasonal leagues as well. For all the details about the thought process behind our picks, check the intro article. The goal is simple: recommend a…...

This is the first of a weekly series examining the actual fantasy production of wide receivers compared to what they would have been expected to do given the targets that they got. 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:…...