After painting the current offensive line continuity landscape earlier, this piece will reveal how stability year-over-year in the trenches relates to rushing, run blocking, and total offense. A year with condensed training camp will see more offensive lines lose continuity than gain it. The 2020 season also sets a high-water mark over the past five years in the number of rookie linemen projected to start…...

Offensive line continuity can often prove a hidden element in offenses veering from projections once the regular season gets underway. The 49ers offense clicked into gear under Kyle Shanahan while carrying max offensive-line continuity into their NFC title run, while the Rams’ setback under Sean McVay coincided with turning over multiple starters for the first time in years. Over the years I’ve written about the…...

“You can’t win your league in the first few rounds, but you sure can lose it.” Christian McCaffrey would beg to differ, but the point remains that many fantasy players err on the side of caution early in drafts and then target high-upside options in the middle and late rounds. Those undervalued breakout players are often the ones who move the needle for a championship team;…...

In Shawn Siegele’s Zero RB Top 15 Update, he looks at all of the key moves over the last week and offers analysis for drafts, trades, and waivers. I always like to provide a final draft weekend update to the Zero RB list with the current targets and tactics after critical last-minute news. We have 169 FFPC drafts since Thursday, giving us a good picture…...

Shawn Siegele presents his 2020 priority targets and draft plan. These player selections stem from the system of contingency-based drafting that he has used to win 11 leagues at the Main Event level or higher and finish in the top-15 of national tournaments on double-digit occasions. Those top finishes include a 1-2 finish in the NFFC Primetime. This style of drafting has been successful in…...

The 2020 wide receiver class has a chance to be special. But one of the guys who figures to make it so special is currently almost free. His ADP is 167.9 in FFPC redraft leagues, which is later than guys like Parris Campbell, Sammy Watkins, Breshad Perriman, and Michael Pittman. I’m talking, of course, about Laviska Shenault. Shenault the Prospect Shenault exploded on the scene…...

Shawn Siegele shares the WR Breakout System that won him an NFFC Grand Prize and has been delivering league-winning seasons for RotoViz subscribers ever since. The entire offseason has been leading up to this draft weekend, and my entire draft plan has been leading up to this article. The 2020 Draft Strategy Series has been predicated on two elements – selecting the right Zero RB…...

At RotoViz, we do a lot of work on game theory. A lot on roster construction. The optimal way to structure your team in order to give yourself the best chance at winning. But at the end of the day, you need to pick the right players. You could have constructed a beautiful team last year, employed every lesson from Shawn Siegele’s Best Ball Workshop,…...

You ever played Minesweeper? That game where you try to click on all of the boxes that aren’t bombs? That’s kind of like a fantasy football draft board. There are landmines everywhere, and you just have to do your best to avoid them. I never really got the hang of Minesweeper. JuJu Smith-Schuster was also one of my highest-owned wide receivers last year, so maybe…...

In 2015, fellow 2QB and Superflex enthusiast Joshua Lake shouted Superflex is the future. That future is now. Or is it? As someone who has championed the multi-quarterback format from the beginning of my foray into the fantasy community, I’m the first to highlight how superior the format is to traditional start-one QB leagues. And while there has been a gradual acceptance of Superflex in…...

Earlier this offseason, I used our Bounceback indicators to help drafters load up on the right wide receivers in dynasty. Several of those receivers have already returned a good profit as they’ve risen throughout the year. Now it’s time to dive back in for redraft. With the biggest draft weekend of the year only days away, how should we play these controversial receivers? The Wrong…...

In Part 3 of the Zero RB Candidates Countdown, Shawn Siegele presents all of the advanced stats behind his priority running back targets for 2020. For those of you on this ride from the beginning, we’ve arrived at our final destination. Skip down to the countdown for the five RBs who provide league-winning upside at a fraction of what it costs to draft their early-round…...

Yesterday, we crafted a 4-Step Plan to Dominate with an RB-RB approach in 2020. But does that plan work from every draft slot? If you have a late pick in 2020 drafts, you’re playing from behind. This is fairly intuitive as you won’t have a shot at players like Christian McCaffrey and Michael Thomas. You won’t be able to select any member of the Big…...

Jalen Reagor, Philadelphia’s star rookie wide receiver, dislocated his shoulder at practice reaching out to tackle a defender who was returning an interception (why are offensive players tackling during turnovers in practice?). He shouldn’t need surgery, at least during the season, and was given a 3-4 week timeline. Therefore, he’ll miss Week 1 and probably Week 2. He could play Week 3 and should be…...

Many of the smartest people have been advocating a similar approach regarding tight ends in fantasy drafts ahead of the 2020 NFL season. There is a “Big Four” at the top of the position, with Travis Kelce, George Kittle, Mark Andrews, and Zach Ertz the acknowledged leaders. Given their track records and expected opportunities, these are the safest options to take at fantasy football’s most…...

2020 is the year of the running back. Earlier this year, Jack Miller demonstrated that RBs are going earlier than ever. In some cases, far earlier. This has created the perfect storm for Zero RB dominance, but it’s also provided an opening for savvy RB-RB drafters. Here’s my four-step plan for using early RBs to decimate your league. The RB Landscape The latest early-round ADP…...