Shawn Siegele breaks down his running back dynasty rankings and discusses the Superflex trade value of every relevant back at the FFPC deadline. As we head into Week 12, I’ll still be using the suite of RotoViz tools to break down RB workloads, EP profiles, rushing peripherals, and route inclusion. But I also want to focus on dynasty trade values as we head into the…...

“Be happy — if you’re not even happy, what’s so good about surviving?” ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Week 11 was simply not a lot of fun. One of my co-managers remarked that Thursday was so bad Keaton Mitchell’s dud was only about the fifth-worst thing that happened, and that was prior to Sunday’s carnage where we reached Week 1 levels of injury-related nightmare…....

In Week 11 of the Zero RB Universe Shawn Siegele breaks down all of the top moves as the 2023 fantasy football trade deadline nears. This article has been a joy to write in 2023, as the RB landscape in-season has been just as compelling as the ADP landscape pre-season. Today’s edition will dive into the Weekly Explorer to break down RB usage – opps,…...

“We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.” ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead The return of Kyler Murray and the continued emergence of Joshua Dobbs perfectly bookended one of the best weeks of fantasy in recent memory. Rarely is it this much fun…...

Shawn Siegele breaks down running back usage and efficiency from Week 9, previews the most important matchups in Week 10, and discusses the best moves you can make for rest-of-season fantasy dominance. This week’s Zero RB Universe goes into the weeds with an in-depth look at opportunities and expected points via the NFL Weekly Stat Explorer. We’ll then dive into all of the advanced stats,…...

That’s 72 unforced errors for Richie Tenenbaum. He’s playing the worst tennis of his life . . . He’s taken off his shoes and one of his socks and . . . actually, I think he’s crying. – Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson Only the Lions, 49ers, Jaguars, and Broncos were on the bye in Week 9, but if your squads featured a lot of Christian…...

Shawn Siegele dives into all of the Week 9 matchups, helps you find the best deep stashes, and recommends some usage and schedule-based trades, including a couple that are sure to generate controversy. As a thank you for your patience with my recent travel and health blips, this week’s Zero RB Universe is the longest in approximately a decade of writing the article. That also…...

“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said — no. But somehow we missed it.” ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Rosencrantz and Guildenstern must constantly struggle with not being the main characters in their own story. Worse, they experience the nagging sensation of having arrived in a moment with no antecedent and with motivations that do not stem…...

Shawn Siegele breaks down all of the most important RB developments headed into Week 7 and recommends several controversial trades. A couple of days into my travels, it’s already been a weird and wild adventure, but nothing compared to a crazy Week 6. The narrative of this season refuses to be written in any given week, and though games were perhaps less dynamic after a…...

The Week 6 recap is coming to you from high over the Atlantic Ocean on the way to Athens, Greece. As a result, I’m on the same general time as my RotoViz Overtime co-host Colm Kelly, and we got to record more on his schedule today.  Seahawks Blow a Perfect Chance to Make Up Ground in the NFC South…...

Inside where nothing shows, I am the essence of a man spinning double-headed coins, and betting against himself in private atonement for an unremembered past. – Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead When you embrace players with a wide range of outcomes – betting on talent, betting on the emergence of elite youth – the first month is occasionally epic but frequently scary. You…...

Shawn Siegele helps you understand the backup RB roles across the NFL and looks at where to select risers, fallers, and trendy names in Underdog’s Best Ball Resurrection. To make sure we’re covering the running back landscape from enough angles, the Zero RB Universe will be a little different every week. As we head into a pivotal Week 5, I’m going to break down some…...

The Player: There’s a design at work in all art surely you know that? Events must play themselves out to an aesthetic, moral and logical conclusion. Guildenstern: And what’s that in this case? The Player: It never varies. We aim for the point where everyone who is marked for death dies. –Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Bengals, Steelers, Patriots, and Bears fans may…...

In the Zero RB Universe, Shawn Siegele breaks down the RB landscape with a look at Week 3 usage and Week 4 matchups.  The Zero RB Universe won’t be the same thing every week, but as a Friday article this time around, I’ll use the Game Level Similarity Projections, Strength of Schedule Streamer, NFL Matchups tab from the Stat Explorer, and the Advanced Team Stats…...

Shawn Siegele uses the RotoViz tools to find three tight end plays for Week 4. I’m filling in for our TE guru, Neil Dutton, this week. Let’s dive right into the intel from the Game Level Similarity Projections, Strength of Schedule Streamer, and NFL Player Explorer to find three options at different price levels for Week 4. 1 Trade, 1 Sleeper, and 1 Streamer with…...

A man . . . sees a unicorn cross his path and disappear. That in itself is startling, but there are precedents for mystical encounters of various kinds . . . until — “My God,” says a second man, “I must be dreaming, I thought I saw a unicorn.” At which point, a dimension is added that makes the experience as alarming as it will…...

Dan: I’m older, and I’m much less friendly to $%#@ing change. Al Swearengen: Change ain’t lookin’ for friends. Change calls the tune we dance to. — Deadwood Rest-of-season rankings felt like the appropriate frame for this week’s Zero RB Universe. Nothing distills the backward- and forward-looking elements of RB evaluation quite like having to rank the players ROS. To understand where the backfields have gone…...

Shawn Siegele breaks down the weekly plan, broaches the important questions in the podcast preview, and explains how subscribers can use the RotoViz tools to capitalize again in Week 3. “We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our…...