Welcome to The Wrong Read. This weekly article uses advanced team-level metrics to preview the week’s upcoming matchups. The goal is to try to understand how an upcoming matchup might play out in terms of each offense’s ability to execute their game plan. How successful will they be when trying to pass? How much will they be able to run the ball? It’s impossible to…...

Wide receivers have been considered the prima-donna position of the NFL for quite some time. One of the biggest shifts seemed to come in the early 2000s, when players like Terrell Owens and Chad Johnson forced themselves into the spotlight in good times and bad. When they were on, their play spoke for them. When things weren’t going their way, they made sure that the…...

Shawn Siegele breaks down the Zero RB Universe with trade ideas, deep stashes, start/sit thoughts, and much more as we head toward Week 8 of the 2024 fantasy football season. After a six-week wait, Bijan Robinson and Breece Hall flashed the elite volume/efficiency mix that we’ve been seeking. Both hit exactly 20 EP and both outperformed by 3.0-plus points, although they did in different ways…....

Week 8 is an embarrassment of riches for D/ST streamers, but a little trickier for daily fantasy players. We’re a victim of our own good fortune, since many of the best fantasy defenses have matchups with the top D/ST targets, inflating their DraftKings prices. But if you’re like me and you refuse to pay up for defenses in daily tournament play, fear not! There’s something…...

So you’re 1-6? Who cares. 2-5? Big deal. 0-7? Ok, maybe we have our limits. Fantasy’s regular season is only half way over, and no matter how poorly our teams played to start the season, there is still plenty of time to turn it all around. The caveat is that we need to stay diligent over the next seven weeks, and a good place to…...

Week 7 was a strong week for the tight ends in fantasy football. 16 players hit double-digit PPR points last week, with three managing more than 20. It was a strong week for the streamers too, with two of the three recommended plays from your humble author finishing inside the top five. It would be lovely if we could maintain this output level . …....

Here we are, if tactically disadvantaged, exactly as before in strength! – E.B. Farnum, Deadwood After Week 6 provided one of the best fantasy experiences in recent memory, Week 7 featured utopia and apocalypse simultaneously. Our favorite backs put up a week for the ages; our favorite WRs barely stayed out of the negative. C.J. Stroud and Jayden Daniels barely combined for 10 points. It…...

Through Sunday’s Week 7 games, 11 of the 26 teams failed to score more than 16 points, with five of those teams unable to surpass 10 points. Just as it looked like we were rounding the corner, the NFL gave us arguably the worst week of the season. And it wasn’t just teams that disappointed, as many of our favorite players like C.J. Stroud, Tyrone…...

Welcome to Going Deep! This weekly article will make use of charting data, advanced metrics, and other RotoViz tools — specifically the 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 hour to watch the tutorial/walkthrough and…...

Welcome to The Wrong Read. This weekly article uses advanced team-level metrics to preview the week’s upcoming matchups. The goal is to try to understand how an upcoming matchup might play out in terms of each offense’s ability to execute their game plan. How successful will they be when trying to pass? How much will they be able to run the ball? It’s impossible to…...

Welcome to Going Deep! This weekly article will make use of charting data, advanced metrics, and other RotoViz tools — specifically the 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 hour to watch the tutorial/walkthrough and…...

Following the conclusion of Week 6, the action kept on rolling with the trades of Davante Adams and Amari Cooper on Tuesday. Both wide receivers have been staples in fantasy for the better part of the last decade, and it will be interesting to see how they acclimate to their new surroundings. Adams joins many of his old teammates from Green Bay in New York,…...

Welcome to The Wrong Read. This weekly article uses advanced team-level metrics to preview the week’s upcoming matchups. The goal is to try to understand how an upcoming matchup might play out in terms of each offense’s ability to execute their game plan. How successful will they be when trying to pass? How much will they be able to run the ball? It’s impossible to…...

A few weeks ago I asked whether Brock Bowers was already the TE1 in both redraft and dynasty. That was perhaps somewhat premature after Week 2, but the answer to both questions has since become obvious. I’m sensitive to Betteridge’s law of headlines, but at the very least my previous Bowers article provides a counterexample. After six weeks of 2024, Bowers is the TE1 in…...

Welcome to Going Deep! This weekly article will make use of charting data, advanced metrics, and other RotoViz tools — specifically the 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 hour to watch the tutorial/walkthrough and…...