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Shawn Siegele
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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The 2025 Zero RB Candidates Countdown: No. 15 to 11 – A Tidal Wave of Youth Threatens History
Shawn Siegele
August 20, 2025
Earlier this month, Shawn Siegele explained why you need to Win the Next War at RB. In the first installment of the 2025 Zero RB Candidates Countdown, he helps you catch a tidal wave of youth at the all-important position. The Zero RB list has been helping RotoViz writers and users to high finishes in Main Events and tournament championships in best ball. A quick look at past…...
The Big Gorilla Update: You Put Together Monster Teams This Summer, Now Stay Ahead of the Curve With 23 Priority Targets for August
Shawn Siegele
August 14, 2025
Shawn Siegele updates the Big Gorilla Blueprint with mega-tiers, tiers, 23 priority targets, and player updates. With one week of the preseason under our belts and draft season going in earnest, it’s time for an update to the redraft plan. In this edition, we’ll discuss movement in the rankings and how to create the most upside in current drafts. Today’s exercise is best used in…...
Never Chase Your Zero RB Winners, Right? Even for a Young, Supercharged Version of Aaron Jones?
Shawn Siegele
August 11, 2025
What would you pay for a young, supercharged version of Aaron Jones, especially if he labored for one of the NFL’s best offenses? For years, I’ve forced myself to avoid Zero RB hits during their follow-up seasons. After all, taking the next step and becoming a 350-point sensation requires a mix of attributes that is incredibly difficult to deliver. Of course, it’s always tempting to…...
When Rules of Thumb Fail: Winning the Next War
Shawn Siegele
August 9, 2025
Shawn Siegele argues that occasionally simple rules of thumb end up not being so simple. Understanding the trajectory for players as they move through the NFL can be very important. That’s one of the reasons I so frequently reference Blair’s groundbreaking WR age series. It’s also helpful to understand the role that draft slot plays in establishing a baseline for a player’s likely usage. While…...
Third Breakout’s the Charm: An Unsexy WR Set for a Stefon Diggs-Level Mid-Career Leap
Shawn Siegele
August 6, 2025
Shawn Siegele examines a veteran star with perhaps the most bizarre ADP in all of fantasy. Stefon Diggs entered the NFL as probably the most hyped RotoViz sleeper in the site’s history, and he proceeded to play quite well during his first five seasons. He averaged over 200 points per season from 2016 to 2019 and constantly flirted with WR1 status. This was still a…...
A Secondary Breakout Will Help This Controversial WR Follow in the Footsteps of DeAndre Hopkins, CeeDee Lamb, and Amon-Ra St. Brown
Shawn Siegele
August 2, 2025
Shawn Siegele explores the profile of a controversial 2025 wide receiver option. Is he an overrated cult favorite in a ready-made bust situation, or is he the most important fantasy WR in all of football? After the first 10 WRs are off the board in 2025, we have very limited options for additional, non-rookie WRs who might join that group in 2026. Fortunately, we do…...
This De’Von Achane Clone Is Set to Blow the Lid Off Fantasy Leagues in 2025 As His Price Slide Finally Ends
Shawn Siegele
July 31, 2025
Shawn Siegele explains why we’re poised to get a league-winning performance from a young RB with breathtaking speed and elite receiving ability. In 2023, De’Von Achane was taken with the 84th pick of the NFL draft and went on to blow the lid off fantasy leagues in Weeks 2 through 4. Only Christian McCaffrey scored more fantasy points during that stretch. Even though Achane only…...
Your Best Bet for a 350-Point RB Season Doesn’t Come In Round 1: Landing the New Jamaal Charles
Shawn Siegele
July 30, 2025
Shawn Siegele makes the case for a dark horse back to take down overall RB1 honors and dominate tournament leaderboards in 2025. In Week 14 of the 2013 season, Jamaal Charles scored 59 fantasy points even though he rushed only eight times for 20 yards. Instead, he gained 195 yards on eight receptions, scoring on receptions of 49, 39, 16, and 71 yards. He added…...
The 15 Affordable RBs You Must Draft to Win in 2025
Shawn Siegele
July 29, 2025
Shawn Siegele provides an early look at inexpensive RB tactics for fantasy football and teases the mid-August Zero RB Candidates Countdown. I always receive quite a bit of correspondence around the Zero RB Candidates Countdown in mid-August as subscribers prepare for their most important drafts. This article is both an early camp state-of-the-position and a lookahead to the Countdown itself. Last year we hit on Chase…...
The 2025 Version of Last Year’s Joe Burrow, Ja’Marr Chase, Tee Higgins, Chase Brown Eruption Is Available at Big Discounts
Shawn Siegele
July 25, 2025
A year ago, Shawn Siegele penned a 6,000-word deep dive into the Seattle Seahawks’ passing game and what history told us about the upside of Jaxon Smith-Njigba and the risks to D.K. Metcalf and Tyler Lockett. This season’s deep dive features a squad even closer to his heart . . . and even more important for fantasy purposes. When looking at advance rates from 2024,…...
The 2025 FFPC Superflex Blueprint: A Complete Strategy Breakdown from the Roster Construction Explorer, Top 200 Rankings and Tiers, Discussing Tactics from Tournament Drafts, and More
Shawn Siegele
July 3, 2025
In the 2025 FFPC Best Ball Superflex Blueprint, Shawn Siegele provides his updated top-200 rankings, detailed insights from the Roster Construction Explorer, and tactics from tournament drafts. I don’t think I need to pull any punches here. The FFPC Superflex Tournament is my favorite best ball format. It’s got everything you want — big prizes ($100,000 to first), low entry fee ($35), Superflex, and starting…...
The 15 Most Controversial Players in Fantasy and Why You Should Take a Closer Look at These 45 Options
Shawn Siegele
July 1, 2025
Shawn Siegele breaks down the 15 most controversial players in fantasy football, talks about his favorite selections, and explains his own picks, all within the context of one of his favorite annual drafts. Pat Thorman’s MFL10 of Death is into its 12th year, and while the cast has subtly changed over the years, one thing stays the same. Pat assembles 11 of the best analysts…...
The 2025 Big Gorilla Bible: Updated Rankings and Tiers, Target Labels for Every Player, A Deep Dive into Tactics from Real Drafts, and Much More
Shawn Siegele
June 17, 2025
Shawn Siegele updates his top-200 player rankings for 2025 redraft formats. Breaking the groups down into 11 tiers and providing ADP contrasts, Shawn gets you ready to win $1 million in the Big Gorilla. Fresh off our best dynasty and redraft seasons to date, the original edition of The Big Gorilla Blueprint was the biggest single-article project I’ve attempted in 15 years of writing about…...
The Big Gorilla Blueprint: Top 200 Rankings, 11 Tiers, 41 Priority Targets, and the Complete Game Plan
Shawn Siegele
May 23, 2025
Shawn Siegele provides his top-200 player rankings for 2025 redraft formats. Breaking the groups down into 11 tiers and providing ADP contrasts to select 41 priority targets, Shawn gets you ready to win $1 million in the Big Gorilla. This ended up as the biggest single-article project I’ve attempted in almost 15 years in writing about fantasy. This exercise will include blurbs on almost every…...
Dynasty Rookie Ranking Updates: All the Subtle Changes from 50 Hours of FFPC Drafting . . . and a Couple of Meaningful Moves
Shawn Siegele
May 8, 2025
Shawn Siegele updates his 2025 dynasty superflex rookie rankings after 60 frantic hours of drafting in the FFPC. He discusses what these high-stakes leagues can teach us about all dynasty rookie drafts this spring and summer. Beginning Saturday morning I’ve spent almost every waking moment living and breathing fantasy rookie drafts. With nine FFPC squads and seven different co-managers, I got to talk a lot…...
You Only Get So Many Picks: How to Beat the Tier Breaks in Dynasty Rookie Drafts
Shawn Siegele
May 3, 2025
Shawn Siegele discusses rankings and tiers for 2025 dynasty superflex rookie drafts and proposes scenarios for maximizing your total haul. The RotoViz TriFlex leagues and regular FFPC dynasty leagues begin their rookie drafts on Saturday morning. In this exercise I work through projected rookie draft slots and help subscribers navigate individual player tiers to create the most total value and best address team needs. This…...
2025 NFL Draft: The RotoViz Top-60 Dynasty Rookie Rankings (Post-Draft Update)
Shawn Siegele
April 25, 2025
Shawn Siegele updates his top-60 dynasty rookie rankings live on draft weekend. Earlier this week I published my final pre-draft rookie rankings. As a reference piece that included a) my most recent thoughts, b) results and visualizations from the combine, c) intel on peripherals from Sports Info Solutions, and d) intel from various articles and RotoViz tools . . . it was over 12,000 words…....
2025 Pre-NFL Draft Dynasty Superflex Rookie Mock Extravaganza: 10 Tiers, 60 Players, and All the Stats
Shawn Siegele
April 23, 2025
Shawn Siegele updates his 2025 pre-NFL draft dynasty superflex rookie mock, providing blurbs on 60 players in 10 tiers. Earlier this month I posted a tiered four-round rookie mock. Today I’m updating that exercise by detailing all of my thoughts on risers and fallers while getting us up to 60 players by adding a full round. A few subscribers have reached out and mentioned that…...
The RotoViz Dynasty Blueprint: Always Reloading, Always in the Window (Free)
Shawn Siegele
April 10, 2025
In 2023 RotoViz recommended avoiding the risky QB profiles and instead prioritizing the elite resumes of Jahmyr Gibbs and Jaxon Smith-Njigba. The Rookie Guide and NFL Draft content urged subscribers to select Rashee Rice and Sam LaPorta in Round 2 of every draft. In 2024 RotoViz placed a priority on Jayden Daniels, Malik Nabers, and Brock Bowers, suggested QB-needy teams load up on Bo Nix,…...
4-Round Dynasty Superflex Rookie Mock: 48 Player Profiles With Prospects Sorted into 7 Different Tiers
Shawn Siegele
March 12, 2025
In 2023 RotoViz recommended avoiding the risky QB profiles and instead prioritizing the elite profiles of Jahmyr Gibbs and Jaxon Smith-Njigba. The Rookie Guide and NFL Draft content urged subscribers to select Rashee Rice and Sam LaPorta in Round 2 of every draft. In 2024 RotoViz placed a priority on Jayden Daniels, Malik Nabers, and Brock Bowers, suggested QB-needy teams load up on Bo Nix,…...
The 2025 Zero RB Candidates Countdown: No. 15 to 11 – A Tidal Wave of Youth Threatens History
Shawn Siegele
August 20, 2025
Earlier this month, Shawn Siegele explained why you need to Win the Next War at RB. In the first installment of the 2025 Zero RB Candidates Countdown, he helps you catch a tidal wave of youth at the all-important position. The Zero RB list has been helping RotoViz writers and users to high finishes in Main Events and tournament championships in best ball. A quick look at past…...
The Big Gorilla Update: You Put Together Monster Teams This Summer, Now Stay Ahead of the Curve With 23 Priority Targets for August
Shawn Siegele
August 14, 2025
Shawn Siegele updates the Big Gorilla Blueprint with mega-tiers, tiers, 23 priority targets, and player updates. With one week of the preseason under our belts and draft season going in earnest, it’s time for an update to the redraft plan. In this edition, we’ll discuss movement in the rankings and how to create the most upside in current drafts. Today’s exercise is best used in…...
Never Chase Your Zero RB Winners, Right? Even for a Young, Supercharged Version of Aaron Jones?
Shawn Siegele
August 11, 2025
What would you pay for a young, supercharged version of Aaron Jones, especially if he labored for one of the NFL’s best offenses? For years, I’ve forced myself to avoid Zero RB hits during their follow-up seasons. After all, taking the next step and becoming a 350-point sensation requires a mix of attributes that is incredibly difficult to deliver. Of course, it’s always tempting to…...
When Rules of Thumb Fail: Winning the Next War
Shawn Siegele
August 9, 2025
Shawn Siegele argues that occasionally simple rules of thumb end up not being so simple. Understanding the trajectory for players as they move through the NFL can be very important. That’s one of the reasons I so frequently reference Blair’s groundbreaking WR age series. It’s also helpful to understand the role that draft slot plays in establishing a baseline for a player’s likely usage. While…...
Third Breakout’s the Charm: An Unsexy WR Set for a Stefon Diggs-Level Mid-Career Leap
Shawn Siegele
August 6, 2025
Shawn Siegele examines a veteran star with perhaps the most bizarre ADP in all of fantasy. Stefon Diggs entered the NFL as probably the most hyped RotoViz sleeper in the site’s history, and he proceeded to play quite well during his first five seasons. He averaged over 200 points per season from 2016 to 2019 and constantly flirted with WR1 status. This was still a…...
A Secondary Breakout Will Help This Controversial WR Follow in the Footsteps of DeAndre Hopkins, CeeDee Lamb, and Amon-Ra St. Brown
Shawn Siegele
August 2, 2025
Shawn Siegele explores the profile of a controversial 2025 wide receiver option. Is he an overrated cult favorite in a ready-made bust situation, or is he the most important fantasy WR in all of football? After the first 10 WRs are off the board in 2025, we have very limited options for additional, non-rookie WRs who might join that group in 2026. Fortunately, we do…...
This De’Von Achane Clone Is Set to Blow the Lid Off Fantasy Leagues in 2025 As His Price Slide Finally Ends
Shawn Siegele
July 31, 2025
Shawn Siegele explains why we’re poised to get a league-winning performance from a young RB with breathtaking speed and elite receiving ability. In 2023, De’Von Achane was taken with the 84th pick of the NFL draft and went on to blow the lid off fantasy leagues in Weeks 2 through 4. Only Christian McCaffrey scored more fantasy points during that stretch. Even though Achane only…...
Your Best Bet for a 350-Point RB Season Doesn’t Come In Round 1: Landing the New Jamaal Charles
Shawn Siegele
July 30, 2025
Shawn Siegele makes the case for a dark horse back to take down overall RB1 honors and dominate tournament leaderboards in 2025. In Week 14 of the 2013 season, Jamaal Charles scored 59 fantasy points even though he rushed only eight times for 20 yards. Instead, he gained 195 yards on eight receptions, scoring on receptions of 49, 39, 16, and 71 yards. He added…...
The 15 Affordable RBs You Must Draft to Win in 2025
Shawn Siegele
July 29, 2025
Shawn Siegele provides an early look at inexpensive RB tactics for fantasy football and teases the mid-August Zero RB Candidates Countdown. I always receive quite a bit of correspondence around the Zero RB Candidates Countdown in mid-August as subscribers prepare for their most important drafts. This article is both an early camp state-of-the-position and a lookahead to the Countdown itself. Last year we hit on Chase…...
The 2025 Version of Last Year’s Joe Burrow, Ja’Marr Chase, Tee Higgins, Chase Brown Eruption Is Available at Big Discounts
Shawn Siegele
July 25, 2025
A year ago, Shawn Siegele penned a 6,000-word deep dive into the Seattle Seahawks’ passing game and what history told us about the upside of Jaxon Smith-Njigba and the risks to D.K. Metcalf and Tyler Lockett. This season’s deep dive features a squad even closer to his heart . . . and even more important for fantasy purposes. When looking at advance rates from 2024,…...
The 2025 FFPC Superflex Blueprint: A Complete Strategy Breakdown from the Roster Construction Explorer, Top 200 Rankings and Tiers, Discussing Tactics from Tournament Drafts, and More
Shawn Siegele
July 3, 2025
In the 2025 FFPC Best Ball Superflex Blueprint, Shawn Siegele provides his updated top-200 rankings, detailed insights from the Roster Construction Explorer, and tactics from tournament drafts. I don’t think I need to pull any punches here. The FFPC Superflex Tournament is my favorite best ball format. It’s got everything you want — big prizes ($100,000 to first), low entry fee ($35), Superflex, and starting…...
The 15 Most Controversial Players in Fantasy and Why You Should Take a Closer Look at These 45 Options
Shawn Siegele
July 1, 2025
Shawn Siegele breaks down the 15 most controversial players in fantasy football, talks about his favorite selections, and explains his own picks, all within the context of one of his favorite annual drafts. Pat Thorman’s MFL10 of Death is into its 12th year, and while the cast has subtly changed over the years, one thing stays the same. Pat assembles 11 of the best analysts…...
The 2025 Big Gorilla Bible: Updated Rankings and Tiers, Target Labels for Every Player, A Deep Dive into Tactics from Real Drafts, and Much More
Shawn Siegele
June 17, 2025
Shawn Siegele updates his top-200 player rankings for 2025 redraft formats. Breaking the groups down into 11 tiers and providing ADP contrasts, Shawn gets you ready to win $1 million in the Big Gorilla. Fresh off our best dynasty and redraft seasons to date, the original edition of The Big Gorilla Blueprint was the biggest single-article project I’ve attempted in 15 years of writing about…...
The Big Gorilla Blueprint: Top 200 Rankings, 11 Tiers, 41 Priority Targets, and the Complete Game Plan
Shawn Siegele
May 23, 2025
Shawn Siegele provides his top-200 player rankings for 2025 redraft formats. Breaking the groups down into 11 tiers and providing ADP contrasts to select 41 priority targets, Shawn gets you ready to win $1 million in the Big Gorilla. This ended up as the biggest single-article project I’ve attempted in almost 15 years in writing about fantasy. This exercise will include blurbs on almost every…...
Dynasty Rookie Ranking Updates: All the Subtle Changes from 50 Hours of FFPC Drafting . . . and a Couple of Meaningful Moves
Shawn Siegele
May 8, 2025
Shawn Siegele updates his 2025 dynasty superflex rookie rankings after 60 frantic hours of drafting in the FFPC. He discusses what these high-stakes leagues can teach us about all dynasty rookie drafts this spring and summer. Beginning Saturday morning I’ve spent almost every waking moment living and breathing fantasy rookie drafts. With nine FFPC squads and seven different co-managers, I got to talk a lot…...
You Only Get So Many Picks: How to Beat the Tier Breaks in Dynasty Rookie Drafts
Shawn Siegele
May 3, 2025
Shawn Siegele discusses rankings and tiers for 2025 dynasty superflex rookie drafts and proposes scenarios for maximizing your total haul. The RotoViz TriFlex leagues and regular FFPC dynasty leagues begin their rookie drafts on Saturday morning. In this exercise I work through projected rookie draft slots and help subscribers navigate individual player tiers to create the most total value and best address team needs. This…...
2025 NFL Draft: The RotoViz Top-60 Dynasty Rookie Rankings (Post-Draft Update)
Shawn Siegele
April 25, 2025
Shawn Siegele updates his top-60 dynasty rookie rankings live on draft weekend. Earlier this week I published my final pre-draft rookie rankings. As a reference piece that included a) my most recent thoughts, b) results and visualizations from the combine, c) intel on peripherals from Sports Info Solutions, and d) intel from various articles and RotoViz tools . . . it was over 12,000 words…....
2025 Pre-NFL Draft Dynasty Superflex Rookie Mock Extravaganza: 10 Tiers, 60 Players, and All the Stats
Shawn Siegele
April 23, 2025
Shawn Siegele updates his 2025 pre-NFL draft dynasty superflex rookie mock, providing blurbs on 60 players in 10 tiers. Earlier this month I posted a tiered four-round rookie mock. Today I’m updating that exercise by detailing all of my thoughts on risers and fallers while getting us up to 60 players by adding a full round. A few subscribers have reached out and mentioned that…...
The RotoViz Dynasty Blueprint: Always Reloading, Always in the Window (Free)
Shawn Siegele
April 10, 2025
In 2023 RotoViz recommended avoiding the risky QB profiles and instead prioritizing the elite resumes of Jahmyr Gibbs and Jaxon Smith-Njigba. The Rookie Guide and NFL Draft content urged subscribers to select Rashee Rice and Sam LaPorta in Round 2 of every draft. In 2024 RotoViz placed a priority on Jayden Daniels, Malik Nabers, and Brock Bowers, suggested QB-needy teams load up on Bo Nix,…...
4-Round Dynasty Superflex Rookie Mock: 48 Player Profiles With Prospects Sorted into 7 Different Tiers
Shawn Siegele
March 12, 2025
In 2023 RotoViz recommended avoiding the risky QB profiles and instead prioritizing the elite profiles of Jahmyr Gibbs and Jaxon Smith-Njigba. The Rookie Guide and NFL Draft content urged subscribers to select Rashee Rice and Sam LaPorta in Round 2 of every draft. In 2024 RotoViz placed a priority on Jayden Daniels, Malik Nabers, and Brock Bowers, suggested QB-needy teams load up on Bo Nix,…...
The 2025 Zero RB Candidates Countdown: No. 15 to 11 – A Tidal Wave of Youth Threatens History
Shawn Siegele
August 20, 2025
Earlier this month, Shawn Siegele explained why you need to Win the Next War at RB. In the first installment of the 2025 Zero RB Candidates Countdown, he helps you catch a tidal wave of youth at the all-important position. The Zero RB list has been helping RotoViz writers and users to high finishes in Main Events and tournament championships in best ball. A quick look at past…...
The Big Gorilla Update: You Put Together Monster Teams This Summer, Now Stay Ahead of the Curve With 23 Priority Targets for August
Shawn Siegele
August 14, 2025
Shawn Siegele updates the Big Gorilla Blueprint with mega-tiers, tiers, 23 priority targets, and player updates. With one week of the preseason under our belts and draft season going in earnest, it’s time for an update to the redraft plan. In this edition, we’ll discuss movement in the rankings and how to create the most upside in current drafts. Today’s exercise is best used in…...
Never Chase Your Zero RB Winners, Right? Even for a Young, Supercharged Version of Aaron Jones?
Shawn Siegele
August 11, 2025
What would you pay for a young, supercharged version of Aaron Jones, especially if he labored for one of the NFL’s best offenses? For years, I’ve forced myself to avoid Zero RB hits during their follow-up seasons. After all, taking the next step and becoming a 350-point sensation requires a mix of attributes that is incredibly difficult to deliver. Of course, it’s always tempting to…...
When Rules of Thumb Fail: Winning the Next War
Shawn Siegele
August 9, 2025
Shawn Siegele argues that occasionally simple rules of thumb end up not being so simple. Understanding the trajectory for players as they move through the NFL can be very important. That’s one of the reasons I so frequently reference Blair’s groundbreaking WR age series. It’s also helpful to understand the role that draft slot plays in establishing a baseline for a player’s likely usage. While…...
Third Breakout’s the Charm: An Unsexy WR Set for a Stefon Diggs-Level Mid-Career Leap
Shawn Siegele
August 6, 2025
Shawn Siegele examines a veteran star with perhaps the most bizarre ADP in all of fantasy. Stefon Diggs entered the NFL as probably the most hyped RotoViz sleeper in the site’s history, and he proceeded to play quite well during his first five seasons. He averaged over 200 points per season from 2016 to 2019 and constantly flirted with WR1 status. This was still a…...
A Secondary Breakout Will Help This Controversial WR Follow in the Footsteps of DeAndre Hopkins, CeeDee Lamb, and Amon-Ra St. Brown
Shawn Siegele
August 2, 2025
Shawn Siegele explores the profile of a controversial 2025 wide receiver option. Is he an overrated cult favorite in a ready-made bust situation, or is he the most important fantasy WR in all of football? After the first 10 WRs are off the board in 2025, we have very limited options for additional, non-rookie WRs who might join that group in 2026. Fortunately, we do…...
This De’Von Achane Clone Is Set to Blow the Lid Off Fantasy Leagues in 2025 As His Price Slide Finally Ends
Shawn Siegele
July 31, 2025
Shawn Siegele explains why we’re poised to get a league-winning performance from a young RB with breathtaking speed and elite receiving ability. In 2023, De’Von Achane was taken with the 84th pick of the NFL draft and went on to blow the lid off fantasy leagues in Weeks 2 through 4. Only Christian McCaffrey scored more fantasy points during that stretch. Even though Achane only…...
Your Best Bet for a 350-Point RB Season Doesn’t Come In Round 1: Landing the New Jamaal Charles
Shawn Siegele
July 30, 2025
Shawn Siegele makes the case for a dark horse back to take down overall RB1 honors and dominate tournament leaderboards in 2025. In Week 14 of the 2013 season, Jamaal Charles scored 59 fantasy points even though he rushed only eight times for 20 yards. Instead, he gained 195 yards on eight receptions, scoring on receptions of 49, 39, 16, and 71 yards. He added…...
The 15 Affordable RBs You Must Draft to Win in 2025
Shawn Siegele
July 29, 2025
Shawn Siegele provides an early look at inexpensive RB tactics for fantasy football and teases the mid-August Zero RB Candidates Countdown. I always receive quite a bit of correspondence around the Zero RB Candidates Countdown in mid-August as subscribers prepare for their most important drafts. This article is both an early camp state-of-the-position and a lookahead to the Countdown itself. Last year we hit on Chase…...
The 2025 Version of Last Year’s Joe Burrow, Ja’Marr Chase, Tee Higgins, Chase Brown Eruption Is Available at Big Discounts
Shawn Siegele
July 25, 2025
A year ago, Shawn Siegele penned a 6,000-word deep dive into the Seattle Seahawks’ passing game and what history told us about the upside of Jaxon Smith-Njigba and the risks to D.K. Metcalf and Tyler Lockett. This season’s deep dive features a squad even closer to his heart . . . and even more important for fantasy purposes. When looking at advance rates from 2024,…...
The 2025 FFPC Superflex Blueprint: A Complete Strategy Breakdown from the Roster Construction Explorer, Top 200 Rankings and Tiers, Discussing Tactics from Tournament Drafts, and More
Shawn Siegele
July 3, 2025
In the 2025 FFPC Best Ball Superflex Blueprint, Shawn Siegele provides his updated top-200 rankings, detailed insights from the Roster Construction Explorer, and tactics from tournament drafts. I don’t think I need to pull any punches here. The FFPC Superflex Tournament is my favorite best ball format. It’s got everything you want — big prizes ($100,000 to first), low entry fee ($35), Superflex, and starting…...
The 15 Most Controversial Players in Fantasy and Why You Should Take a Closer Look at These 45 Options
Shawn Siegele
July 1, 2025
Shawn Siegele breaks down the 15 most controversial players in fantasy football, talks about his favorite selections, and explains his own picks, all within the context of one of his favorite annual drafts. Pat Thorman’s MFL10 of Death is into its 12th year, and while the cast has subtly changed over the years, one thing stays the same. Pat assembles 11 of the best analysts…...
The 2025 Big Gorilla Bible: Updated Rankings and Tiers, Target Labels for Every Player, A Deep Dive into Tactics from Real Drafts, and Much More
Shawn Siegele
June 17, 2025
Shawn Siegele updates his top-200 player rankings for 2025 redraft formats. Breaking the groups down into 11 tiers and providing ADP contrasts, Shawn gets you ready to win $1 million in the Big Gorilla. Fresh off our best dynasty and redraft seasons to date, the original edition of The Big Gorilla Blueprint was the biggest single-article project I’ve attempted in 15 years of writing about…...
The Big Gorilla Blueprint: Top 200 Rankings, 11 Tiers, 41 Priority Targets, and the Complete Game Plan
Shawn Siegele
May 23, 2025
Shawn Siegele provides his top-200 player rankings for 2025 redraft formats. Breaking the groups down into 11 tiers and providing ADP contrasts to select 41 priority targets, Shawn gets you ready to win $1 million in the Big Gorilla. This ended up as the biggest single-article project I’ve attempted in almost 15 years in writing about fantasy. This exercise will include blurbs on almost every…...
Dynasty Rookie Ranking Updates: All the Subtle Changes from 50 Hours of FFPC Drafting . . . and a Couple of Meaningful Moves
Shawn Siegele
May 8, 2025
Shawn Siegele updates his 2025 dynasty superflex rookie rankings after 60 frantic hours of drafting in the FFPC. He discusses what these high-stakes leagues can teach us about all dynasty rookie drafts this spring and summer. Beginning Saturday morning I’ve spent almost every waking moment living and breathing fantasy rookie drafts. With nine FFPC squads and seven different co-managers, I got to talk a lot…...
You Only Get So Many Picks: How to Beat the Tier Breaks in Dynasty Rookie Drafts
Shawn Siegele
May 3, 2025
Shawn Siegele discusses rankings and tiers for 2025 dynasty superflex rookie drafts and proposes scenarios for maximizing your total haul. The RotoViz TriFlex leagues and regular FFPC dynasty leagues begin their rookie drafts on Saturday morning. In this exercise I work through projected rookie draft slots and help subscribers navigate individual player tiers to create the most total value and best address team needs. This…...
2025 NFL Draft: The RotoViz Top-60 Dynasty Rookie Rankings (Post-Draft Update)
Shawn Siegele
April 25, 2025
Shawn Siegele updates his top-60 dynasty rookie rankings live on draft weekend. Earlier this week I published my final pre-draft rookie rankings. As a reference piece that included a) my most recent thoughts, b) results and visualizations from the combine, c) intel on peripherals from Sports Info Solutions, and d) intel from various articles and RotoViz tools . . . it was over 12,000 words…....
2025 Pre-NFL Draft Dynasty Superflex Rookie Mock Extravaganza: 10 Tiers, 60 Players, and All the Stats
Shawn Siegele
April 23, 2025
Shawn Siegele updates his 2025 pre-NFL draft dynasty superflex rookie mock, providing blurbs on 60 players in 10 tiers. Earlier this month I posted a tiered four-round rookie mock. Today I’m updating that exercise by detailing all of my thoughts on risers and fallers while getting us up to 60 players by adding a full round. A few subscribers have reached out and mentioned that…...
The RotoViz Dynasty Blueprint: Always Reloading, Always in the Window (Free)
Shawn Siegele
April 10, 2025
In 2023 RotoViz recommended avoiding the risky QB profiles and instead prioritizing the elite resumes of Jahmyr Gibbs and Jaxon Smith-Njigba. The Rookie Guide and NFL Draft content urged subscribers to select Rashee Rice and Sam LaPorta in Round 2 of every draft. In 2024 RotoViz placed a priority on Jayden Daniels, Malik Nabers, and Brock Bowers, suggested QB-needy teams load up on Bo Nix,…...
4-Round Dynasty Superflex Rookie Mock: 48 Player Profiles With Prospects Sorted into 7 Different Tiers
Shawn Siegele
March 12, 2025
In 2023 RotoViz recommended avoiding the risky QB profiles and instead prioritizing the elite profiles of Jahmyr Gibbs and Jaxon Smith-Njigba. The Rookie Guide and NFL Draft content urged subscribers to select Rashee Rice and Sam LaPorta in Round 2 of every draft. In 2024 RotoViz placed a priority on Jayden Daniels, Malik Nabers, and Brock Bowers, suggested QB-needy teams load up on Bo Nix,…...
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