It was a great week for streaming quarterbacks! Andrew Luck and Drew Brees finished as fringe top 12 options, while Peyton Manning and Russell Wilson failed to qualify as QB1s. Time to find out how I did last week, and recommend some more plays for Week 2! Week 1 Recap I will evaluate my results using FanDuel QB scoring. Here’s how I did last week. Streamer of the Week: 16.2 FP…...

Week 1 is in the books. With the limited sample size, fantasy owners have to evaluate good and bad performances with a keen eye to ensure they are buying into players expected to provide season long value and sell guys that appear to simply be a “blip on the radar.” Luckily, I’m here to help you out with some guys that had surprise performances in Week 1…...

Week 1 Recap If you remember from my first Joe 2 Pro article, I mentioned that I would be starting with $7,000 on DraftKings and $3,000 on FanDuel. Week 1 ended up being a solid week. I invested $1,058 which is a little just over 10 percent of my bankroll and I had a net profit of $1,405. Finding my way into the black Week…...

In my last post I introduced the concept of VTP+ (“Versus Team Position Plus”), a new stat that makes quick comparisons of players on the same NFL team, within the same position group. Head over to that article for the full explanation, but the quick recap is this is a metric that doesn’t try to be anything more than a simplified look at the per-target…...

Have you ever read RotoViz writer and veteran high stakes fantasy football player Shawn Siegele’s Zero RB, Antifragility, and the Myth of Value-Based Drafting? The challenging aspect of executing Zero RB in a live draft is letting all of the elite running backs get taken. Eddie Lacy, Le’Veon Bell, Adrian Peterson, Jeremy Hill, LeSean McCoy, Demarco Murray, and others are disappearing right before your eyes. The…...

In last week’s post I outlined my general strategy for this season: 12 percent of my bankroll will represent my money-in-play, 80 percent of that in cash games, and 20 percent in GPPs. Of the cash games, 75 percent would be head-to-head, and 25 percent would be 50/50s. This is the second entry into a season-long series on my journey into daily fantasy football. If you’re…...

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. Methodology and Acronyms The stats I use in this article come from the Fantasy Efficiency App. It’s an awesome app that allows you to look…...

Someday, we might look back on 2015’s Week 1 as the debut of a legendary quarterback. Sadly, it may also mark the beginning of the end for one of the all-time greats. I’m happy to report that Week 1 had numerous dynasty implications, and there’s already been a dramatic shakeup in my rookie rankings. Brace yourselves and join me in considering the Dynasty Impact of…...

It was a tumultuous Week 1 of NFL football, and a lot of things went awry for fantasy owners. Last week, I introduced you to my process on FanDuel, and set the stage for the coming season. Every week going forward, I’ll update you on my progress, and go over some things that went right, wrong, and that I’ll change. Bankroll Progress It was not…...

Excerpts from my previous article on Andre Ellington earlier this year: Andre Ellington, the Arizona Cardinal’s lead running back, underwent surgical repair for a sports hernia on 12/8/14 and finished the year on injured reserve.  During the 2014 season, Ellington was limited to 12 games due to an assortment of injuries, including a partial tear of the peroneus longus tendon in his left foot. The…...

Each week throughout the season I’ll be taking you through some notable TE performances as evaluated by the Fantasy Efficiency App. This app really is a fantastic tool which measures the value of players’ workloads, as well as their efficiency in meeting or exceeding that expected point total. The first part of that is exceptionally valuable standalone data. Denoted reEP, receiving expected points are a cumulative measure of…...

Each week throughout the season either Lucas Crocker or I will be taking you through some notable QB performances as evaluated by the Fantasy Efficiency App. This app really is a fantastic tool which measures the value of quarterbacks’ pass attempts, as well as their efficiency in meeting or exceeding that expected point total. The first part of that is exceptionally valuable standalone data. Denoted paEP, passing expected points…...

Fantasy football news from week 1, featuring Chris Johnson, Jay Cutler, Brandon Coleman, Tavon Austin, Arian Foster, Allen Hurns, Sammy Watkins, Karlos Williams, and Ameer Abdullah. Chris Johnson I know, David Johnson is the much sexier pick up in light of Andre Ellington’s injury. And I absolutely think that David Johnson has a higher ceiling than Chris Johnson. But I wouldn’t be in a big rush to…...

When playing the stock market, it can be extremely difficult to make an early move on a particular investment. After all, with little information about it, whose to say that said investment will continue to trend in its current direction, good or bad, or reverse field in the coming days or weeks or even months? The infinite timeline of the stock market can make “buy…...

Here are the players I am targeting on the waiver wire after Week 1. 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 overreactions every Monday morning to what happened in the NFL that week. One of us might show up in the other’s article to tell them…...

Alshon Jeffery suffered a calf injury during the first preseason game versus the Dolphins on August 13th. The Bears downplayed the injury early on and Coach John Fox has offered little insight. So you likely invested a high draft pick on him with little concern about the injury. Unfortunately, the situation has escalated to the point that we aren’t even sure how effective he’ll be…...