Shawn Siegele uses the GPS Matchup Rater to analyze the key RB and WR decisions for wild card weekend and the FFPC Playoff Challenge.  RotoViz has a wide variety of tools to help you project the fantasy playoffs. Blair Andrews used the RotoViz Screener to build a powerful algorithm for projecting total playoff points. Dave Caban detailed the Wild Card results from the Game Level…...

Curtis Patrick shares his strategies and player targets for building a lineup that can win the grand prize in the 2021 FFPC Playoff Challenge or the FBG Playoff Challenge. Update – 4:28PM EST, 1/7/21 – AFC Player Selection Grid Update – 6:16PM EST, 1/7/21 – Browns COVID-19 Status Update – 8:30PM EST, 1/8/21 – NFC Player Selection Grid I love all playoff challenge-style contests, but…...

If you’re playing in the FFPC Playoff Challenge, some helpful data to bring into the contest with you would be playoff projections. A feature of the RotoViz Screener that often gets overlooked is the ability to look at playoff games and even to create objective projections based on a linear regression. There are a lot of ways to create powerful models, but in what follows…...

Here we are, at one of the most stressful parts of the NFL season. You’re on edge for every fantasy playoffs do-or-die moment, agonizing over start/bench decisions so intently that when others ask what you’re thinking about, you actually considering answering truthfully before succumbing to embarrassment and instead just muttering, “Stuff.” If you’re a long-time married man like I am (nearly 23 years), this part…...

Three years ago, Todd Gurley had one of the most epic fantasy-playoff runs in history, rushing for 366 yards and five touchdowns while catching 16 passes for another 225 yards and three scores during weeks 14 to 16. It’s seared into my memory because an FFPC Main Event team that I help manage nearly took down the grand prize despite lacking Gurley.((We finished ninth overall,…...

About five days after a special edition of Wednesday Afternoon Football, we get a Week 13 that has a Monday double-header and Tuesday Night Football. As of this writing, amid the final regular-season week of fantasy football in a lot of my leagues, a ton of results remain up in the air because there are still three games left in the week. Of course, it’s…...

Welcome to Week 12, also known as The Week We Tilt Our Faces Off. Both of my FFPC Main Event entries that I help run lost their matchups this week. It would be easy to make this personal and turn this space into a Festivus Airing of Grievances, but my guess is that my gripes are going to be common to a lot of fantasy…...

I’ll be honest, back in August and September, I was unsure whether the NFL would even make it to Week 11. In that first month of the season, with games getting postponed and moved around, things seemed dicey. But we’re here now. And in the FFPC Main Event, that means one thing: Time’s up. Monday night’s Rams-Buccaneers game marks the end of the contest’s 11-game…...

Something I’ve never been able to figure out is why the NFL loads up on games in Sunday’s early slate and then schedules just two or three for the second half of the day. What would make more sense – at least to a football junkie like me, who hates when the Red Zone Channel has lulls of no live action in the late slate…...

So, anything besides football happen last week? I’m not sure about everyone else, but it was a bit difficult for me to focus at all on fantasy football in Week 9, what with the nation waiting and waiting and waiting on edge for the results of a contentious presidential election. I got barely anything done, as I spent most the week refreshing election results. I…...

In Week 8 of the 2020 NFL season, with the start of the Sunday late games fast approaching, the key lineup decision that my FFPC Main Event ownership group was debating via text was whether to start rookie fourth-round running back DeeJay Dallas against the 49ers or undrafted rookie JaMycal Hasty versus the Seahawks. The winner was Hasty, who would join – heavy sigh –…...

The NFL had only one minor COVID-19-related rescheduled game this week. There’s only one Monday night game. There’s no Tuesday night game. It was an abnormally normal week in the NFL. But back to that rescheduled game: Seattle and Arizona were supposed to play in the Sunday late games, but their match replaced the Sunday night Buccaneers-Raiders game, which was moved earlier in the day…...

For weeks, fellow RotoViz writer John Lapinski and I knew we were facing a particularly difficult Week 6 for the FFPC Main Event team we run together. With our top two picks (Alvin Kamara and Josh Jacobs) both on bye that week, we needed to work some fantasy voodoo if we were going to keep our undefeated streak rolling past the halfway point of the…...

Two Adam Schefter tweets summed up the weekend of NFL football. The first: Cowboys announced that QB Dak Prescott suffered a right ankle compound fracture and dislocation. — Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) October 12, 2020 I happened to see the injury as it happened. It was easily one of the most gruesome sports-related sights I’ve ever seen, and one that changes the landscape of the NFL…...

Whenever I sit down to write this weekly wrap-up, I typically first consider what was noteworthy about the Thursday night game three days before. This time, when reflecting on that Jets-Broncos game, I thought, That was only three days ago? Feels like three weeks. Hopefully we won’t look back on the past few days as the turning point when the wheels fell off the NFL…...

With two waiver runs in the FFPC Main Event – one on Wednesday night, and another 48 hours later – there’s an underused strategy that’s pretty effective if you can take advantage of it: When everyone else has presumably started their weekend, sneak a guy onto your roster with a low bid on Friday night. This is the ploy that John Lapinski and I employed…...