Maybe you’re a longstanding Ronald Jones truther. Perhaps you love the fact that Peyton Barber had a top-10 opportunity share among all NFL RBs last season and delivered only 9.4 fantasy points per game. If you are, or even if you’re not[1]especially if you’re not then it’s hard to get really excited about the Tampa Bay backfield. But that’s why it’s not beyond the realm of…...

I’ve never much liked basing my draft day decisions on traditional rankings and projections. When it comes down to it — with your cursor hovering over one of the four players in your draft queue, your palms sweaty, pupils dilated — your mind reaches for any information that might inform your choice.  Who’s the safest guy? you think in the early rounds. Who has the…...

In early August, I participated in a 12-team “expert” auction coordinated by the good folks at The Huddle of USA Today Sports. Given the ever-changing nature of the fantasy football landscape, the results of this auction hold less meaning today than they did at the time. I’ll be posting the results of the auction and breaking down my approach in a future post. However, as I’ve written…...

I’ve had a hard time getting much else accomplished since RotoViz released its latest tool, the Range of Outcomes App, this week. On Monday I looked at one of the underrated names that popped out as belonging in the elite-WR category in Dave Caban’s model. And I want to take a quick look at another WR who appears to belong in the same category according…...

With redraft season officially upon us, it is important to know how to insure your high-value investment at the running back position. With any insurance policy, it is of the utmost importance to know both the cost and the payout should that policy need to be cashed in. At their most basic level, RB handcuffs are just insurance policies, and like any other purchase, it…...

A four-game suspension to the start the season and a high ankle sprain will ensure that Antonio Callaway will not be looking back on 2019 offseason too fondly in years to come. While his regular-season absence will immediately benefit fellow veteran Rashard Higgins. But his inability to showcase his skills in the exhibition season has led to an increase in opportunities for rookie wide receiver D.J…....

After watching Avengers: Endgame, I couldn’t stop thinking about the multiverse. Then, my mind drifted to the Projection Machine, which acts as a fantasy football time machine. Every little tweak in the timeline of fantasy football can have a wide range of repercussions that echo across the league. So, in this series, I’ll dial up that Projection Machine to examine players who could experience big…...

This past weekend, my high school friends and I had our 10th annual fantasy football draft. While I am the defending champion, have the highest net winnings in our league’s history, and draft in hundreds of DRAFT best balls throughout the year, my draft always plays out differently than I expect. I always find myself surprised by the way this home league draft unfolds, and…...

Most fantasy analysis is devoted to sorting the order of players likely to have an immediate impact, but every year there are a handful of overlooked deep sleepers who emerge to fill a starting role in redraft. Last year, it was guys like Phillip Lindsay and James Conner at running back. Deep sleepers at WR are a little harder to find, but we did tell you to watch out for Curtis Samuel,…...

Two years ago RotoViz was very excited about a rookie RB out of Boise State, and we had very good reason to be. In fact, he finished second overall in the RB Prospect Lab in a truly loaded class, besting Christian McCaffrey, Joe Mixon, Leonard Fournette, Dalvin Cook, Marlon Mack, Kareem Hunt, Aaron Jones, James Conner, and Alvin Kamara.((Side note: we should probably be talking…...

The Draft Dashboard is a powerful tool to prepare for drafts and to dominate the real thing. Now available in both web and excel versions, it gives you a wealth of information at your fingertips when you’re on the clock, and it’s also a flexible mock draft tool that allows you to work through a variety of scenarios and formats. Today, I’m going to deploy…...

The RotoViz Team recently released a new tool called the “Range of Ouctomes App.” This tool will help users to better understand a player’s realistic range of outcomes for the coming season. In this article, Dave Caban overviews the process of building the tool and interpreting its results. Phillip Lindsay was one of the most exciting surprises of the 2018 fantasy season. The undrafted free…...

I am very much here for the Sixth Coming of our Gord and Savior. But that doesn’t mean I have the faintest inkling of how it will all play out. The Patriots have placed Josh Gordon on the Non-Football Injury list for the time being, but they dropped Dontrelle Inman when Gordon was reinstated, so all signs point to Gordon being a part of this…...

You know that feeling when you finish a draft and can’t find any mistakes? Everything just falls perfectly in line with your plan and you wouldn’t change anything. Today we’ll be taking a look at one such perfect draft in 0.5-point-per-reception leagues. As stated in the Non-PPR draft, I will follow these rules for my “Perfect Draft”: I can reach for players early, but I…...

The latest in a long line of new and beefed-up RotoViz apps has arrived — Dave Caban’s Range of Outcomes App. You might remember this as the Sim Scores App, which gathers the most comparable seasons for a player, and based on that, assigns them a range of outcomes for the coming season. I prefer considering a player’s range of outcomes, as they provide a…...

You know that feeling when you finish a draft and can’t find any mistakes? Everything just falls in place perfectly in line with your plan and you just feel perfect. Today, we’ll kick of the series with the OG league – 12-team, non-PPR scoring. While it’s no longer the standard for some of the primary fantasy outlets, plenty of leagues still run the traditional format…....

Despite what you’ve been told, the preseason actually does matter — at least in the world of fantasy football. You can gain a serious edge on the competition by paying attention to the games and searching for deep sleepers just as they are waking up, such as the current front runner of #teampreseason 2019: Patriots rookie wideout Jakobi Meyers. We started these takeaway pieces with Thursday night’s…...

After watching Avengers: Endgame, I couldn’t stop thinking about the multiverse. Then, my mind drifted to the Projection Machine, which acts as a fantasy football time machine. Every little tweak in the timeline of fantasy football can have a wide range of repercussions that echo across the league. So, in this series, I’ll dial up that Projection Machine to examine players who could experience big…...

Friday night was football night, as Week 2 of the NFL preseason continued with three games. Here are our immediate takeaways from the action. The games: BUF @ CAR, CHI @ NYG, MIA @ TB Josh Allen finds a security blanket Buffalo Bills sophomore quarterback Josh Allen failed to throw a touchdown pass against the Panthers, keeping him scoreless through two preseason games. But he…...