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Author of the original Zero RB article and 2013 NFFC Primetime Grand Champion. 11-time main event league winner. 2015, 2017, 2018 titles in MFL10 of Death.
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Fantasy’s Best Late-Round Pick Provides a 4-in-1 Value and Could Be This Year’s Adam Thielen
Shawn Siegele
August 16, 2024
Shawn Siegele reveals his favorite 2024 late-round pick and explains why a forgotten-yet-buzzy WR allows you to check four boxes at once. When it comes to volume, I generally have only one rule: don’t make the same volume play as everyone else. If you’re making the same volume bet as the community, then that bet is going to get pricey even if it doesn’t seem…...
2024 Projections: Brock Bowers Is the Next High-Upside Rookie TE
Dave Caban
August 16, 2024
Dave Caban shares his baseline 2024 projection for the Las Vegas Raiders while also considering the impacts of increases/decreases to market shares and team play volume. Every offseason, I undertake the process of creating projections for every team. In previous years, this involved developing a projection that I believed would represent the average performance of all relevant players if a given season were played out…...
2024 Projections: Can Drake Maye and Ja’Lynn Polk Reinvent the Patriots’ Offense?
Dave Caban
August 16, 2024
Dave Caban shares his baseline 2024 projection for the New England Patriots while also considering the impacts of increases/decreases to market shares and team play volume. Every offseason, I undertake the process of creating projections for every team. In previous years, this involved developing a projection that I believed would represent the average performance of all relevant players if a given season were played out…...
High-Stakes Arbitrage Opportunities: The 10 Best Value Picks in the FFPC FantasyPros Championship
Blair Andrews
August 15, 2024
While the FFPC Main Event gets most of the attention during redraft season — and rightly so, as the biggest high-stakes fantasy contest around — we shouldn’t forget about FFPC’s sister tournament that features just as big a grand prize and an even bigger prize pool. The FantasyPros Championship features a $350 buy-in and a $1 million top prize. It also offers a slightly flatter…...
The 2024 RotoViz Auction Draft Strategy Guide, Part 3
Dave Caban
August 15, 2024
Auction drafts are easy to “win” but even easier to “lose.” Dave Caban overviews the preparation, thought processes, and in-auction strategies needed to ensure that you’re ready for the intensity and challenges auctions will throw at you and are poised to leave your draft with a contender. If you haven’t done so yet, please read through the introductory article, Part 1, and Part 2 of this year’s…...
8 Must-Draft Fantasy Football Players for the 2024 Season – RotoViz Overtime
Colm Kelly
August 15, 2024
Do you want to know the best draft picks in every round? Shawn Siegele and Colm Kelly share the must-have fantasy football players you need to draft this year. From breakout stars to proven veterans, listen in to find out who will make the most significant impact this season. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 2:00 Roster Construction advice 7:00 Round 1 – Garrett Wilson 10:00 Round 2
Trading Down Is Your Dynasty Superpower: How and When to Make Your Move in Startups
Shawn Siegele
August 14, 2024
Shawn Siegele explains why trading down in startups is your dynasty superpower . . . and breaks down 17 trades that illustrate the concept. Colm Kelly and I have had a blast participating in an RV TriFlex dynasty startup with the Overtime community. By my count there have been 42 trades through the 13.03. Colm and I have been involved in 17. I recently articulated…...
2024 Projections: Can Puka Nacua, Kyren Williams, and the Rams’ Offense Catch Lightning In a Bottle Another Time?
Dave Caban
August 14, 2024
Dave Caban shares his baseline 2024 projection for the Los Angeles Rams while also considering the impacts of increases/decreases to market shares and team play volume. Every offseason, I undertake the process of creating projections for every team. In previous years, this involved developing a projection that I believed would represent the average performance of all relevant players if a given season were played out…...
You Aren’t Drafting Enough WRs – RotoViz Overtime
Colm Kelly
August 14, 2024
What should you do at the Wide Receiver cliff in Best Ball drafts? Can you pivot to RB? Shawn Siegele and Colm Kelly share why it is vital to ensure you have enough WR firepower and how to nail your Zero RB drafts! Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:00 Brandon Aiyuk trade rumors 4:00 Dynasty Strategy 7:00 The WR Cliff! – Are you using the Zero RB
The 2024 RotoViz Auction Draft Strategy Guide, Part 2
Dave Caban
August 13, 2024
Auction drafts are easy to “win” but even easier to “lose.” Dave Caban overviews the preparation, thought processes, and in-auction strategies needed to ensure that you’re ready for the intensity and challenges auctions will throw at you and are poised to leave your draft with a contender. If you haven’t done so yet, please read through the introductory article and Part 1 of this year’s…...
How Should Drafters Be Playing 2024’s Most Polarizing Rookie Wide Receivers? Part 4: The Next Deebo Samuel or the Next Rondale Moore?
Kevin Szafraniec
August 12, 2024
With as many opinions as there are people in the world, if we look hard enough we will always be able to find ample evidence to soothe our confirmation biases. In this regard, fantasy football reflects everything else. With seemingly as many sources for content as there are fantasy leagues at this point, if we’re seeking justification for our player takes, we’ll never have to…...
Simulating Best Ball Mania to Uncover the Hidden Impact of Bye Weeks and Injuries
Jake Boes
August 12, 2024
The NFL preseason is underway and training camp blurbs are flooding the internet. The NFL season is near. The firehose of news can be overwhelming, but it’s one of the keys to forming each players’ range of outcomes. Whether it’s a sleeper already running with the starters or a shiny rookie playing with the third team, we’re learning more each day about the floor and…...
These 2 Teams with New Starters Could Provide Massive Fantasy Value: Small Gap Backfields to Watch Closely During the Preseason
Corbin Young
August 11, 2024
Last time, we looked at small gap running backs on two teams with a dominant veteran and potential breakouts to identify undervalued players based on their ADP. Today we’ll cover two more small gap running backs, including a veteran and a younger option. The idea of small gap and big gap RBs comes from Jack Miller’s research on the win and hit rates for big or small gap backs,…...
The 2024 RotoViz Auction Draft Strategy Guide, Part 1
Dave Caban
August 11, 2024
Auction drafts are easy to “win” but even easier to “lose.” Dave Caban overviews the preparation, thought processes, and in-auction strategies needed to ensure that you’re ready for the intensity and challenges auctions will throw at you and are poised to leave your draft with a contender. A Reminder From the Introduction If you have never participated in an auction draft or have spent little…...
The Open Score Superstars Set to Turn Fantasy Football on Its Head: 5 Wide Receivers About to Join the Elite Ranks
Blair Andrews
August 10, 2024
In my last article I highlighted one of ESPN Analytics Receiver Tracking Metrics: YAC Score. Deebo Samuel has been among the best in the league at YAC Score since his rookie season. And at least one Year 2 breakout candidate looks like he might be on a similar trajectory. But YAC Score isn’t the only metric ESPN tracks. In fact, one could say it’s not…...
The 2024 RotoViz Auction Draft Strategy Guide, Introduction
Dave Caban
August 10, 2024
Auction drafts are easy to “win” but even easier to “lose.” Dave Caban overviews the preparation, thought processes, and in-auction strategies needed to ensure that you’re ready for the intensity and challenges auctions will throw at you and are poised to leave your draft with a contender. Since 2016, I have published a series of articles on auction drafts each summer to help readers prepare…...
Draft Josh Jacobs’ Profile at a Multi-Round Discount and Get a Serious Talent Infusion
Shawn Siegele
August 9, 2024
Shawn Siegele explains why Josh Jacobs is a 2024 fantasy football trap play and helps you find his doppelganger at a multi-round discount. In 2022 Josh Jacobs was an absolute world burner from the Dead Zone, scoring 330 points and finishing as the RB3. Unfortunately, he returned to his previous levels of performance in 2023, missed a few games with injury, and left fantasy managers…...
For the “I’m Probably Wrong” Files: 2024’s Upside Down Draft Landscape Has Created the Biggest RB Value Since LeSean McCoy in 2016
Shawn Siegele
August 9, 2024
Shawn Siegele looks at the evidence for 2024’s biggest running back value and wonders whether we’re getting LeSean McCoy circa 2016 all over again. LeSean McCoy’s 2016 season occurred at the intersection of trends that reverberate forward to the present. We were coming off the 2015 RB Apocalypse, and ADP moved heavily in favor of WRs. A short-lived RB Golden Age was about to start…....
Deebo Samuel Is an After-the-Catch Unicorn, but This Year 2 Breakout Candidate’s Rookie Season Was Eerily Similar
Blair Andrews
August 8, 2024
The player tracking and advanced charting era gives us a multitude of metrics that measure how well receivers get open, how good they are at turning opportunities into receptions, and how good they are at turning those receptions into yards and touchdowns. I enjoy getting into the nitty-gritty of the advanced metrics and teasing out which methods for measuring those various skills are most exploitable…....
2024 Projections: Trevor Lawrence and the Jaguars’ Offense Is Poised to Ignite the NFL
Dave Caban
August 8, 2024
Dave Caban shares his baseline 2024 projection for the Jacksonville Jaguars while also considering the impacts of increases/decreases to market shares and team play volume. Every offseason, I undertake the process of creating projections for every team. In previous years, this involved developing a projection that I believed would represent the average performance of all relevant players if a given season were played out thousands…...
Fantasy’s Best Late-Round Pick Provides a 4-in-1 Value and Could Be This Year’s Adam Thielen
Shawn Siegele
August 16, 2024
Shawn Siegele reveals his favorite 2024 late-round pick and explains why a forgotten-yet-buzzy WR allows you to check four boxes at once. When it comes to volume, I generally have only one rule: don’t make the same volume play as everyone else. If you’re making the same volume bet as the community, then that bet is going to get pricey even if it doesn’t seem…...
2024 Projections: Brock Bowers Is the Next High-Upside Rookie TE
Dave Caban
August 16, 2024
Dave Caban shares his baseline 2024 projection for the Las Vegas Raiders while also considering the impacts of increases/decreases to market shares and team play volume. Every offseason, I undertake the process of creating projections for every team. In previous years, this involved developing a projection that I believed would represent the average performance of all relevant players if a given season were played out…...
2024 Projections: Can Drake Maye and Ja’Lynn Polk Reinvent the Patriots’ Offense?
Dave Caban
August 16, 2024
Dave Caban shares his baseline 2024 projection for the New England Patriots while also considering the impacts of increases/decreases to market shares and team play volume. Every offseason, I undertake the process of creating projections for every team. In previous years, this involved developing a projection that I believed would represent the average performance of all relevant players if a given season were played out…...
High-Stakes Arbitrage Opportunities: The 10 Best Value Picks in the FFPC FantasyPros Championship
Blair Andrews
August 15, 2024
While the FFPC Main Event gets most of the attention during redraft season — and rightly so, as the biggest high-stakes fantasy contest around — we shouldn’t forget about FFPC’s sister tournament that features just as big a grand prize and an even bigger prize pool. The FantasyPros Championship features a $350 buy-in and a $1 million top prize. It also offers a slightly flatter…...
The 2024 RotoViz Auction Draft Strategy Guide, Part 3
Dave Caban
August 15, 2024
Auction drafts are easy to “win” but even easier to “lose.” Dave Caban overviews the preparation, thought processes, and in-auction strategies needed to ensure that you’re ready for the intensity and challenges auctions will throw at you and are poised to leave your draft with a contender. If you haven’t done so yet, please read through the introductory article, Part 1, and Part 2 of this year’s…...
8 Must-Draft Fantasy Football Players for the 2024 Season – RotoViz Overtime
Colm Kelly
August 15, 2024
Do you want to know the best draft picks in every round? Shawn Siegele and Colm Kelly share the must-have fantasy football players you need to draft this year. From breakout stars to proven veterans, listen in to find out who will make the most significant impact this season. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 2:00 Roster Construction advice 7:00 Round 1 – Garrett Wilson 10:00 Round 2
Trading Down Is Your Dynasty Superpower: How and When to Make Your Move in Startups
Shawn Siegele
August 14, 2024
Shawn Siegele explains why trading down in startups is your dynasty superpower . . . and breaks down 17 trades that illustrate the concept. Colm Kelly and I have had a blast participating in an RV TriFlex dynasty startup with the Overtime community. By my count there have been 42 trades through the 13.03. Colm and I have been involved in 17. I recently articulated…...
2024 Projections: Can Puka Nacua, Kyren Williams, and the Rams’ Offense Catch Lightning In a Bottle Another Time?
Dave Caban
August 14, 2024
Dave Caban shares his baseline 2024 projection for the Los Angeles Rams while also considering the impacts of increases/decreases to market shares and team play volume. Every offseason, I undertake the process of creating projections for every team. In previous years, this involved developing a projection that I believed would represent the average performance of all relevant players if a given season were played out…...
You Aren’t Drafting Enough WRs – RotoViz Overtime
Colm Kelly
August 14, 2024
What should you do at the Wide Receiver cliff in Best Ball drafts? Can you pivot to RB? Shawn Siegele and Colm Kelly share why it is vital to ensure you have enough WR firepower and how to nail your Zero RB drafts! Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:00 Brandon Aiyuk trade rumors 4:00 Dynasty Strategy 7:00 The WR Cliff! – Are you using the Zero RB
The 2024 RotoViz Auction Draft Strategy Guide, Part 2
Dave Caban
August 13, 2024
Auction drafts are easy to “win” but even easier to “lose.” Dave Caban overviews the preparation, thought processes, and in-auction strategies needed to ensure that you’re ready for the intensity and challenges auctions will throw at you and are poised to leave your draft with a contender. If you haven’t done so yet, please read through the introductory article and Part 1 of this year’s…...
How Should Drafters Be Playing 2024’s Most Polarizing Rookie Wide Receivers? Part 4: The Next Deebo Samuel or the Next Rondale Moore?
Kevin Szafraniec
August 12, 2024
With as many opinions as there are people in the world, if we look hard enough we will always be able to find ample evidence to soothe our confirmation biases. In this regard, fantasy football reflects everything else. With seemingly as many sources for content as there are fantasy leagues at this point, if we’re seeking justification for our player takes, we’ll never have to…...
Simulating Best Ball Mania to Uncover the Hidden Impact of Bye Weeks and Injuries
Jake Boes
August 12, 2024
The NFL preseason is underway and training camp blurbs are flooding the internet. The NFL season is near. The firehose of news can be overwhelming, but it’s one of the keys to forming each players’ range of outcomes. Whether it’s a sleeper already running with the starters or a shiny rookie playing with the third team, we’re learning more each day about the floor and…...
These 2 Teams with New Starters Could Provide Massive Fantasy Value: Small Gap Backfields to Watch Closely During the Preseason
Corbin Young
August 11, 2024
Last time, we looked at small gap running backs on two teams with a dominant veteran and potential breakouts to identify undervalued players based on their ADP. Today we’ll cover two more small gap running backs, including a veteran and a younger option. The idea of small gap and big gap RBs comes from Jack Miller’s research on the win and hit rates for big or small gap backs,…...
The 2024 RotoViz Auction Draft Strategy Guide, Part 1
Dave Caban
August 11, 2024
Auction drafts are easy to “win” but even easier to “lose.” Dave Caban overviews the preparation, thought processes, and in-auction strategies needed to ensure that you’re ready for the intensity and challenges auctions will throw at you and are poised to leave your draft with a contender. A Reminder From the Introduction If you have never participated in an auction draft or have spent little…...
The Open Score Superstars Set to Turn Fantasy Football on Its Head: 5 Wide Receivers About to Join the Elite Ranks
Blair Andrews
August 10, 2024
In my last article I highlighted one of ESPN Analytics Receiver Tracking Metrics: YAC Score. Deebo Samuel has been among the best in the league at YAC Score since his rookie season. And at least one Year 2 breakout candidate looks like he might be on a similar trajectory. But YAC Score isn’t the only metric ESPN tracks. In fact, one could say it’s not…...
The 2024 RotoViz Auction Draft Strategy Guide, Introduction
Dave Caban
August 10, 2024
Auction drafts are easy to “win” but even easier to “lose.” Dave Caban overviews the preparation, thought processes, and in-auction strategies needed to ensure that you’re ready for the intensity and challenges auctions will throw at you and are poised to leave your draft with a contender. Since 2016, I have published a series of articles on auction drafts each summer to help readers prepare…...
Draft Josh Jacobs’ Profile at a Multi-Round Discount and Get a Serious Talent Infusion
Shawn Siegele
August 9, 2024
Shawn Siegele explains why Josh Jacobs is a 2024 fantasy football trap play and helps you find his doppelganger at a multi-round discount. In 2022 Josh Jacobs was an absolute world burner from the Dead Zone, scoring 330 points and finishing as the RB3. Unfortunately, he returned to his previous levels of performance in 2023, missed a few games with injury, and left fantasy managers…...
For the “I’m Probably Wrong” Files: 2024’s Upside Down Draft Landscape Has Created the Biggest RB Value Since LeSean McCoy in 2016
Shawn Siegele
August 9, 2024
Shawn Siegele looks at the evidence for 2024’s biggest running back value and wonders whether we’re getting LeSean McCoy circa 2016 all over again. LeSean McCoy’s 2016 season occurred at the intersection of trends that reverberate forward to the present. We were coming off the 2015 RB Apocalypse, and ADP moved heavily in favor of WRs. A short-lived RB Golden Age was about to start…....
Deebo Samuel Is an After-the-Catch Unicorn, but This Year 2 Breakout Candidate’s Rookie Season Was Eerily Similar
Blair Andrews
August 8, 2024
The player tracking and advanced charting era gives us a multitude of metrics that measure how well receivers get open, how good they are at turning opportunities into receptions, and how good they are at turning those receptions into yards and touchdowns. I enjoy getting into the nitty-gritty of the advanced metrics and teasing out which methods for measuring those various skills are most exploitable…....
2024 Projections: Trevor Lawrence and the Jaguars’ Offense Is Poised to Ignite the NFL
Dave Caban
August 8, 2024
Dave Caban shares his baseline 2024 projection for the Jacksonville Jaguars while also considering the impacts of increases/decreases to market shares and team play volume. Every offseason, I undertake the process of creating projections for every team. In previous years, this involved developing a projection that I believed would represent the average performance of all relevant players if a given season were played out thousands…...
Fantasy’s Best Late-Round Pick Provides a 4-in-1 Value and Could Be This Year’s Adam Thielen
Shawn Siegele
August 16, 2024
Shawn Siegele reveals his favorite 2024 late-round pick and explains why a forgotten-yet-buzzy WR allows you to check four boxes at once. When it comes to volume, I generally have only one rule: don’t make the same volume play as everyone else. If you’re making the same volume bet as the community, then that bet is going to get pricey even if it doesn’t seem…...
2024 Projections: Brock Bowers Is the Next High-Upside Rookie TE
Dave Caban
August 16, 2024
Dave Caban shares his baseline 2024 projection for the Las Vegas Raiders while also considering the impacts of increases/decreases to market shares and team play volume. Every offseason, I undertake the process of creating projections for every team. In previous years, this involved developing a projection that I believed would represent the average performance of all relevant players if a given season were played out…...
2024 Projections: Can Drake Maye and Ja’Lynn Polk Reinvent the Patriots’ Offense?
Dave Caban
August 16, 2024
Dave Caban shares his baseline 2024 projection for the New England Patriots while also considering the impacts of increases/decreases to market shares and team play volume. Every offseason, I undertake the process of creating projections for every team. In previous years, this involved developing a projection that I believed would represent the average performance of all relevant players if a given season were played out…...
High-Stakes Arbitrage Opportunities: The 10 Best Value Picks in the FFPC FantasyPros Championship
Blair Andrews
August 15, 2024
While the FFPC Main Event gets most of the attention during redraft season — and rightly so, as the biggest high-stakes fantasy contest around — we shouldn’t forget about FFPC’s sister tournament that features just as big a grand prize and an even bigger prize pool. The FantasyPros Championship features a $350 buy-in and a $1 million top prize. It also offers a slightly flatter…...
The 2024 RotoViz Auction Draft Strategy Guide, Part 3
Dave Caban
August 15, 2024
Auction drafts are easy to “win” but even easier to “lose.” Dave Caban overviews the preparation, thought processes, and in-auction strategies needed to ensure that you’re ready for the intensity and challenges auctions will throw at you and are poised to leave your draft with a contender. If you haven’t done so yet, please read through the introductory article, Part 1, and Part 2 of this year’s…...
8 Must-Draft Fantasy Football Players for the 2024 Season – RotoViz Overtime
Colm Kelly
August 15, 2024
Do you want to know the best draft picks in every round? Shawn Siegele and Colm Kelly share the must-have fantasy football players you need to draft this year. From breakout stars to proven veterans, listen in to find out who will make the most significant impact this season. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 2:00 Roster Construction advice 7:00 Round 1 – Garrett Wilson 10:00 Round 2
Trading Down Is Your Dynasty Superpower: How and When to Make Your Move in Startups
Shawn Siegele
August 14, 2024
Shawn Siegele explains why trading down in startups is your dynasty superpower . . . and breaks down 17 trades that illustrate the concept. Colm Kelly and I have had a blast participating in an RV TriFlex dynasty startup with the Overtime community. By my count there have been 42 trades through the 13.03. Colm and I have been involved in 17. I recently articulated…...
2024 Projections: Can Puka Nacua, Kyren Williams, and the Rams’ Offense Catch Lightning In a Bottle Another Time?
Dave Caban
August 14, 2024
Dave Caban shares his baseline 2024 projection for the Los Angeles Rams while also considering the impacts of increases/decreases to market shares and team play volume. Every offseason, I undertake the process of creating projections for every team. In previous years, this involved developing a projection that I believed would represent the average performance of all relevant players if a given season were played out…...
You Aren’t Drafting Enough WRs – RotoViz Overtime
Colm Kelly
August 14, 2024
What should you do at the Wide Receiver cliff in Best Ball drafts? Can you pivot to RB? Shawn Siegele and Colm Kelly share why it is vital to ensure you have enough WR firepower and how to nail your Zero RB drafts! Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:00 Brandon Aiyuk trade rumors 4:00 Dynasty Strategy 7:00 The WR Cliff! – Are you using the Zero RB
The 2024 RotoViz Auction Draft Strategy Guide, Part 2
Dave Caban
August 13, 2024
Auction drafts are easy to “win” but even easier to “lose.” Dave Caban overviews the preparation, thought processes, and in-auction strategies needed to ensure that you’re ready for the intensity and challenges auctions will throw at you and are poised to leave your draft with a contender. If you haven’t done so yet, please read through the introductory article and Part 1 of this year’s…...
How Should Drafters Be Playing 2024’s Most Polarizing Rookie Wide Receivers? Part 4: The Next Deebo Samuel or the Next Rondale Moore?
Kevin Szafraniec
August 12, 2024
With as many opinions as there are people in the world, if we look hard enough we will always be able to find ample evidence to soothe our confirmation biases. In this regard, fantasy football reflects everything else. With seemingly as many sources for content as there are fantasy leagues at this point, if we’re seeking justification for our player takes, we’ll never have to…...
Simulating Best Ball Mania to Uncover the Hidden Impact of Bye Weeks and Injuries
Jake Boes
August 12, 2024
The NFL preseason is underway and training camp blurbs are flooding the internet. The NFL season is near. The firehose of news can be overwhelming, but it’s one of the keys to forming each players’ range of outcomes. Whether it’s a sleeper already running with the starters or a shiny rookie playing with the third team, we’re learning more each day about the floor and…...
These 2 Teams with New Starters Could Provide Massive Fantasy Value: Small Gap Backfields to Watch Closely During the Preseason
Corbin Young
August 11, 2024
Last time, we looked at small gap running backs on two teams with a dominant veteran and potential breakouts to identify undervalued players based on their ADP. Today we’ll cover two more small gap running backs, including a veteran and a younger option. The idea of small gap and big gap RBs comes from Jack Miller’s research on the win and hit rates for big or small gap backs,…...
The 2024 RotoViz Auction Draft Strategy Guide, Part 1
Dave Caban
August 11, 2024
Auction drafts are easy to “win” but even easier to “lose.” Dave Caban overviews the preparation, thought processes, and in-auction strategies needed to ensure that you’re ready for the intensity and challenges auctions will throw at you and are poised to leave your draft with a contender. A Reminder From the Introduction If you have never participated in an auction draft or have spent little…...
The Open Score Superstars Set to Turn Fantasy Football on Its Head: 5 Wide Receivers About to Join the Elite Ranks
Blair Andrews
August 10, 2024
In my last article I highlighted one of ESPN Analytics Receiver Tracking Metrics: YAC Score. Deebo Samuel has been among the best in the league at YAC Score since his rookie season. And at least one Year 2 breakout candidate looks like he might be on a similar trajectory. But YAC Score isn’t the only metric ESPN tracks. In fact, one could say it’s not…...
The 2024 RotoViz Auction Draft Strategy Guide, Introduction
Dave Caban
August 10, 2024
Auction drafts are easy to “win” but even easier to “lose.” Dave Caban overviews the preparation, thought processes, and in-auction strategies needed to ensure that you’re ready for the intensity and challenges auctions will throw at you and are poised to leave your draft with a contender. Since 2016, I have published a series of articles on auction drafts each summer to help readers prepare…...
Draft Josh Jacobs’ Profile at a Multi-Round Discount and Get a Serious Talent Infusion
Shawn Siegele
August 9, 2024
Shawn Siegele explains why Josh Jacobs is a 2024 fantasy football trap play and helps you find his doppelganger at a multi-round discount. In 2022 Josh Jacobs was an absolute world burner from the Dead Zone, scoring 330 points and finishing as the RB3. Unfortunately, he returned to his previous levels of performance in 2023, missed a few games with injury, and left fantasy managers…...
For the “I’m Probably Wrong” Files: 2024’s Upside Down Draft Landscape Has Created the Biggest RB Value Since LeSean McCoy in 2016
Shawn Siegele
August 9, 2024
Shawn Siegele looks at the evidence for 2024’s biggest running back value and wonders whether we’re getting LeSean McCoy circa 2016 all over again. LeSean McCoy’s 2016 season occurred at the intersection of trends that reverberate forward to the present. We were coming off the 2015 RB Apocalypse, and ADP moved heavily in favor of WRs. A short-lived RB Golden Age was about to start…....
Deebo Samuel Is an After-the-Catch Unicorn, but This Year 2 Breakout Candidate’s Rookie Season Was Eerily Similar
Blair Andrews
August 8, 2024
The player tracking and advanced charting era gives us a multitude of metrics that measure how well receivers get open, how good they are at turning opportunities into receptions, and how good they are at turning those receptions into yards and touchdowns. I enjoy getting into the nitty-gritty of the advanced metrics and teasing out which methods for measuring those various skills are most exploitable…....
2024 Projections: Trevor Lawrence and the Jaguars’ Offense Is Poised to Ignite the NFL
Dave Caban
August 8, 2024
Dave Caban shares his baseline 2024 projection for the Jacksonville Jaguars while also considering the impacts of increases/decreases to market shares and team play volume. Every offseason, I undertake the process of creating projections for every team. In previous years, this involved developing a projection that I believed would represent the average performance of all relevant players if a given season were played out thousands…...
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