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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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Dynasty Startups Are All About Guts and Patience: 13 Trade Ideas to Navigate Any Draft Environment
Shawn Siegele
August 16, 2023
Shawn Siegele explains the mechanism that makes trading down your dynasty startup superpower and details the types of trades you can and should make in real leagues. This weekend we posted Completely Revamp Your Startup Strategy With These 3 Key Insights, and in a year where I’ve had more fun writing than ever before, this was probably the piece that I enjoyed the most. If…...
A Couple of Stats That Might Change Your Mind About the Highest-Profile Running Back Committees
Shawn Siegele
August 16, 2023
Shawn Siegele offers a couple of contrarian stats to help you process – or grieve – the Dalvin Cook and Ezekiel Elliott signings. A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece arguing for Breece Hall as the most important player in fantasy. On Monday afternoon, Ben Gretch and I recorded our favorite podcast – the one where we give our first-round predictions for next year’s…...
Dynasty Workshop: Completely Revamp Your Superflex Startup Approach With 3 First-Round Insights
Shawn Siegele
August 13, 2023
Shawn Siegele looks at the first round of his 2023 dynasty startup and helps you avoid the mistakes that effectively eliminate squads from both short- and long-term contention. Bjorn Yang-Vaernet and I are currently involved in a dynasty startup in the RV TriFlex format at the FFPC. Since this lineup and scoring format have become the default for new dynasty leagues across the industry, these…...
This Cheap Underdog Hack Allows You to Create a Dominant Advantage at All Positions
Shawn Siegele
August 10, 2023
Shawn Siegele explores the evidence for a cheap Underdog hack that helps you dominate all positions and pushes your advance rates through the roof. When Colm Kelly and I draft our RotoViz Overtime squads, we tend to emphasize Zero RB constructions that include Elite TE builds. The WR-heavy approach dominated 2022, and top TEs often give you a trump card through the playoffs even when…...
5 Priority Wide Receiver Targets Who Are Also Dominating Early in Training Camp
Shawn Siegele
August 7, 2023
Shawn Siegele explains why these five WRs have been the foundation of his summer draft plans and why training camp developments are making them even better picks for your big redraft leagues this August. One consistent and justified refrain from our subscribers is that you want my 2023 Draft Plan early enough for most drafters to use it on the big day. While I’ll still…...
We’re Starting to Get Serious Jamaal Charles Vibes From a Young Star in an Ascending Offense
Shawn Siegele
August 3, 2023
Shawn Siegele looks at a young back who appears ready to make the leap to stardom, perhaps even infringing upon that rarefied air that’s usually saved for discussing Jamaal Charles. There’s never been a better season for buying superstar RBs at reasonable prices, and that includes the next wave of backs floundering in what used to be the Dead Zone. We’re only getting eight RBs…...
The Next Tony Pollard Has Less Backfield Competition and Is Already Blowing Up Camp
Shawn Siegele
August 1, 2023
Shawn Siegele breaks down the thesis for one of his favorite undervalued RBs and explains why the early-camp star could be the 2023 Tony Pollard . . . but with even more ceiling. Last year, we had four backs absolutely crush formats from what is traditionally the RB Dead Zone. Josh Jacobs and Miles Sanders were pure dead zoners, but two of their compatriots came…...
The Next Kittle Already Here? Plus, How Perpetual Reloading Put Us All-In on a Top Rookie Sleeper at WR
Shawn Siegele
July 28, 2023
Shawn Siegele looks at two young stars already excelling in training camp and lays down the rationale for a Perpetual Reloading approach that starts right from the dynasty startup draft. Bjorn Yang-Vaernet and I are about to embark on an RV TriFlex startup over at the FFPC, and we’ll keep you posted on the developments. Bjorn recently wrote a great piece breaking down the mix…...
A Must-Draft Player from Each of the First 5 Rounds in FFPC Main Event and Fantasy Pros Drafts
Shawn Siegele
July 27, 2023
Shawn Siegele starts his redraft strategy sessions with a look at the best pick in each of the first five rounds of the FFPC Main Event. The best part of fantasy football has arrived. We’ve reached redraft season. In 2023 drafters can win $1 million in both the $2,000 (Main Event) and $350 (Fantasy Pros) levels at the FFPC. You can plot to win the…...
What’s the Possible Upside for Aggressive Javonte Williams Drafters?
Shawn Siegele
July 26, 2023
Shawn Siegele looks at what it means for Javonte Williams to avoid PUP and what his trajectory will likely be if he stays healthy in 2023. Where should we be selecting him now in fantasy drafts? On a few podcasts last week, I mentioned that if the prices for Breece Hall and Williams were reversed, I’d still be trying to create at least some exposure…...
I’m Always Too High on Breece Hall, But Is That About to Pay Off?
Shawn Siegele
July 24, 2023
Breece Hall may be the most controversial fantasy selection this summer. The second-year player for New York took the league by storm last season before suffering an ACL tear in Week 7. Will he be the second coming of Adrian Peterson, or will his trajectory follow the path taken by J.K. Dobbins a year ago? Hall was put on PUP to begin training camp, but…...
How to Turn Elite-But-Lean WR Builds Into Deadly Tournament Rosters
Shawn Siegele
July 21, 2023
Shawn Siegele recommends aggressive draft selections to execute a trendy Underdog BBMIV draft plan that’s perfect for 2023. In the 2023 Underdog Workshop, I’m using the Roster Construction Explorer and Advance Rate Explorer to create evidence-based draft plans to handle any slot and room. The 2023 Underdog Workshop Will the Best-Parts Plan allow you to blend dominant tactics from 2021 and 2022? The evidence for…...
Tournaments Are About to Give Us 1 Must-Draft WR to Go With 1 Do-Not-Draft Bust
Shawn Siegele
July 19, 2023
Shawn Siegele explains why the hardest click in your draft also might be the player who wins you $3 million. In the 2023 FFPC and Underdog Best Ball Workshops, we’ve put together plans for balancing four objectives: Deploying draft structures that exploit the current year ADP landscape Selecting player archetypes with asymmetrical risk/reward profiles Generating additional ADP value within individual leagues Embracing the right type…...
Combining Double-Anchor RB, WR Storm Tactics, ADP Value, and Tournament Upside in Best Ball Mania IV
Shawn Siegele
July 12, 2023
Shawn Siegele breaks down all 18 picks from a Best Ball Mania IV draft on a team that balances ADP value, overall roster construction, and correlation plays. In the previous Underdog Workshop, we looked at how to blend league-winning traits from 2021 and 2022 while capitalizing on the unique ADP environment of 2023. That team featured a double-anchor at RB but combined upside WRs with…...
My Favorite Way to Beat the Underdog Avalanche Mixes Fun, Firepower, Safety, and Upside
Shawn Siegele
July 7, 2023
Shawn Siegele examines a Best Ball Banana Stand draft with Peter Overzet and asks whether we can use the pressure from a WR Avalanche draft to help us think about tactics that bridge the 2021 and 2022 seasons in Underdog. Pete and I draft a team in BBM4 every Wednesday morning, and these drafts tend to be extremely WR heavy. That creates an interesting mix…...
Tournament Champion or Crash and Burn? The Evidence For and Against a Contrarian Best Ball Play
Shawn Siegele
July 3, 2023
Shawn Siegele looks at the quarterback position in 2023 and dives into the tools to ask whether a deeply contrarian approach might be the answer that unlocks extreme upside builds. The RotoViz writers and subscribers have turned in some really big results over the years by gleaning insights from the Underdog and FFPC Roster Construction Explorers. If you understand what works year-in and year-out in…...
The Next DeVonta Smith Could Be the Perfect Way to Beat 2023’s WR Dead Zone
Shawn Siegele
June 27, 2023
Shawn Siegele dives deep into the evidence and breaks out the full RotoViz toolkit to help you find a receiver who profiles as the 2023 version of DeVonta Smith. In Part 1 of this series, I framed the project this way: You only have so many early-round selections. Players on the same NFL team are frequently dealing with the same team-level risks. That leads to…...
Manipulating the RB Dead Zone for Outsized Gains in 2023 – Stealing Bananas
Shawn Siegele
June 20, 2023
Ben Gretch and Shawn Siegele discuss the history and theory of the RB Dead Zone, explore how fantasy football ADP has shifted the dynamics in 2023, and give their favorite RB plays to exploit the inefficiencies. Subscribe to the RotoViz YouTube Channel here! HOSTS Stealing Signals creator Ben Gretch (@Yardspergretch) Subscribe to Stealing Signals and Stealing Lines today. RotoViz co-owner Shawn Siegele (@FF_Contrarian) SPONSORS Listeners
Best Ball Workshop: Drafters Are Still Giving You a Dominant QB Approach in the FFPC SF Tournament
Shawn Siegele
June 19, 2023
Shawn Siegele examines quarterback tactics in the FFPC Superflex tournament and explains why a tournament-winning approach is still alive and well. The FFPC Best Ball Superflex tournament has always been one of my favorite contests to participate in and write about in the workshop. The most fun I had writing a piece last year may have been How the RotoViz Tools Fueled a Team to…...
The Late Rounds Are a Black Hole at WR, But These 5 Deep Options Could Be Tournament Winners
Shawn Siegele
June 15, 2023
Does the Wide Receiver Avalanche have you on the defensive in summer best ball drafts? Shawn Siegele breaks down his favorite deep sleeper options at receiver. The 2023 fantasy landscape features brutally WR-heavy tournament drafts. Those drafts become even more aggressive at WR when you look at the toughest rooms. Check out an OT listener league draft or a Best Ball Banana Stand contest. In…...
Dynasty Startups Are All About Guts and Patience: 13 Trade Ideas to Navigate Any Draft Environment
Shawn Siegele
August 16, 2023
Shawn Siegele explains the mechanism that makes trading down your dynasty startup superpower and details the types of trades you can and should make in real leagues. This weekend we posted Completely Revamp Your Startup Strategy With These 3 Key Insights, and in a year where I’ve had more fun writing than ever before, this was probably the piece that I enjoyed the most. If…...
A Couple of Stats That Might Change Your Mind About the Highest-Profile Running Back Committees
Shawn Siegele
August 16, 2023
Shawn Siegele offers a couple of contrarian stats to help you process – or grieve – the Dalvin Cook and Ezekiel Elliott signings. A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece arguing for Breece Hall as the most important player in fantasy. On Monday afternoon, Ben Gretch and I recorded our favorite podcast – the one where we give our first-round predictions for next year’s…...
Dynasty Workshop: Completely Revamp Your Superflex Startup Approach With 3 First-Round Insights
Shawn Siegele
August 13, 2023
Shawn Siegele looks at the first round of his 2023 dynasty startup and helps you avoid the mistakes that effectively eliminate squads from both short- and long-term contention. Bjorn Yang-Vaernet and I are currently involved in a dynasty startup in the RV TriFlex format at the FFPC. Since this lineup and scoring format have become the default for new dynasty leagues across the industry, these…...
This Cheap Underdog Hack Allows You to Create a Dominant Advantage at All Positions
Shawn Siegele
August 10, 2023
Shawn Siegele explores the evidence for a cheap Underdog hack that helps you dominate all positions and pushes your advance rates through the roof. When Colm Kelly and I draft our RotoViz Overtime squads, we tend to emphasize Zero RB constructions that include Elite TE builds. The WR-heavy approach dominated 2022, and top TEs often give you a trump card through the playoffs even when…...
5 Priority Wide Receiver Targets Who Are Also Dominating Early in Training Camp
Shawn Siegele
August 7, 2023
Shawn Siegele explains why these five WRs have been the foundation of his summer draft plans and why training camp developments are making them even better picks for your big redraft leagues this August. One consistent and justified refrain from our subscribers is that you want my 2023 Draft Plan early enough for most drafters to use it on the big day. While I’ll still…...
We’re Starting to Get Serious Jamaal Charles Vibes From a Young Star in an Ascending Offense
Shawn Siegele
August 3, 2023
Shawn Siegele looks at a young back who appears ready to make the leap to stardom, perhaps even infringing upon that rarefied air that’s usually saved for discussing Jamaal Charles. There’s never been a better season for buying superstar RBs at reasonable prices, and that includes the next wave of backs floundering in what used to be the Dead Zone. We’re only getting eight RBs…...
The Next Tony Pollard Has Less Backfield Competition and Is Already Blowing Up Camp
Shawn Siegele
August 1, 2023
Shawn Siegele breaks down the thesis for one of his favorite undervalued RBs and explains why the early-camp star could be the 2023 Tony Pollard . . . but with even more ceiling. Last year, we had four backs absolutely crush formats from what is traditionally the RB Dead Zone. Josh Jacobs and Miles Sanders were pure dead zoners, but two of their compatriots came…...
The Next Kittle Already Here? Plus, How Perpetual Reloading Put Us All-In on a Top Rookie Sleeper at WR
Shawn Siegele
July 28, 2023
Shawn Siegele looks at two young stars already excelling in training camp and lays down the rationale for a Perpetual Reloading approach that starts right from the dynasty startup draft. Bjorn Yang-Vaernet and I are about to embark on an RV TriFlex startup over at the FFPC, and we’ll keep you posted on the developments. Bjorn recently wrote a great piece breaking down the mix…...
A Must-Draft Player from Each of the First 5 Rounds in FFPC Main Event and Fantasy Pros Drafts
Shawn Siegele
July 27, 2023
Shawn Siegele starts his redraft strategy sessions with a look at the best pick in each of the first five rounds of the FFPC Main Event. The best part of fantasy football has arrived. We’ve reached redraft season. In 2023 drafters can win $1 million in both the $2,000 (Main Event) and $350 (Fantasy Pros) levels at the FFPC. You can plot to win the…...
What’s the Possible Upside for Aggressive Javonte Williams Drafters?
Shawn Siegele
July 26, 2023
Shawn Siegele looks at what it means for Javonte Williams to avoid PUP and what his trajectory will likely be if he stays healthy in 2023. Where should we be selecting him now in fantasy drafts? On a few podcasts last week, I mentioned that if the prices for Breece Hall and Williams were reversed, I’d still be trying to create at least some exposure…...
I’m Always Too High on Breece Hall, But Is That About to Pay Off?
Shawn Siegele
July 24, 2023
Breece Hall may be the most controversial fantasy selection this summer. The second-year player for New York took the league by storm last season before suffering an ACL tear in Week 7. Will he be the second coming of Adrian Peterson, or will his trajectory follow the path taken by J.K. Dobbins a year ago? Hall was put on PUP to begin training camp, but…...
How to Turn Elite-But-Lean WR Builds Into Deadly Tournament Rosters
Shawn Siegele
July 21, 2023
Shawn Siegele recommends aggressive draft selections to execute a trendy Underdog BBMIV draft plan that’s perfect for 2023. In the 2023 Underdog Workshop, I’m using the Roster Construction Explorer and Advance Rate Explorer to create evidence-based draft plans to handle any slot and room. The 2023 Underdog Workshop Will the Best-Parts Plan allow you to blend dominant tactics from 2021 and 2022? The evidence for…...
Tournaments Are About to Give Us 1 Must-Draft WR to Go With 1 Do-Not-Draft Bust
Shawn Siegele
July 19, 2023
Shawn Siegele explains why the hardest click in your draft also might be the player who wins you $3 million. In the 2023 FFPC and Underdog Best Ball Workshops, we’ve put together plans for balancing four objectives: Deploying draft structures that exploit the current year ADP landscape Selecting player archetypes with asymmetrical risk/reward profiles Generating additional ADP value within individual leagues Embracing the right type…...
Combining Double-Anchor RB, WR Storm Tactics, ADP Value, and Tournament Upside in Best Ball Mania IV
Shawn Siegele
July 12, 2023
Shawn Siegele breaks down all 18 picks from a Best Ball Mania IV draft on a team that balances ADP value, overall roster construction, and correlation plays. In the previous Underdog Workshop, we looked at how to blend league-winning traits from 2021 and 2022 while capitalizing on the unique ADP environment of 2023. That team featured a double-anchor at RB but combined upside WRs with…...
My Favorite Way to Beat the Underdog Avalanche Mixes Fun, Firepower, Safety, and Upside
Shawn Siegele
July 7, 2023
Shawn Siegele examines a Best Ball Banana Stand draft with Peter Overzet and asks whether we can use the pressure from a WR Avalanche draft to help us think about tactics that bridge the 2021 and 2022 seasons in Underdog. Pete and I draft a team in BBM4 every Wednesday morning, and these drafts tend to be extremely WR heavy. That creates an interesting mix…...
Tournament Champion or Crash and Burn? The Evidence For and Against a Contrarian Best Ball Play
Shawn Siegele
July 3, 2023
Shawn Siegele looks at the quarterback position in 2023 and dives into the tools to ask whether a deeply contrarian approach might be the answer that unlocks extreme upside builds. The RotoViz writers and subscribers have turned in some really big results over the years by gleaning insights from the Underdog and FFPC Roster Construction Explorers. If you understand what works year-in and year-out in…...
The Next DeVonta Smith Could Be the Perfect Way to Beat 2023’s WR Dead Zone
Shawn Siegele
June 27, 2023
Shawn Siegele dives deep into the evidence and breaks out the full RotoViz toolkit to help you find a receiver who profiles as the 2023 version of DeVonta Smith. In Part 1 of this series, I framed the project this way: You only have so many early-round selections. Players on the same NFL team are frequently dealing with the same team-level risks. That leads to…...
Manipulating the RB Dead Zone for Outsized Gains in 2023 – Stealing Bananas
Shawn Siegele
June 20, 2023
Ben Gretch and Shawn Siegele discuss the history and theory of the RB Dead Zone, explore how fantasy football ADP has shifted the dynamics in 2023, and give their favorite RB plays to exploit the inefficiencies. Subscribe to the RotoViz YouTube Channel here! HOSTS Stealing Signals creator Ben Gretch (@Yardspergretch) Subscribe to Stealing Signals and Stealing Lines today. RotoViz co-owner Shawn Siegele (@FF_Contrarian) SPONSORS Listeners
Best Ball Workshop: Drafters Are Still Giving You a Dominant QB Approach in the FFPC SF Tournament
Shawn Siegele
June 19, 2023
Shawn Siegele examines quarterback tactics in the FFPC Superflex tournament and explains why a tournament-winning approach is still alive and well. The FFPC Best Ball Superflex tournament has always been one of my favorite contests to participate in and write about in the workshop. The most fun I had writing a piece last year may have been How the RotoViz Tools Fueled a Team to…...
The Late Rounds Are a Black Hole at WR, But These 5 Deep Options Could Be Tournament Winners
Shawn Siegele
June 15, 2023
Does the Wide Receiver Avalanche have you on the defensive in summer best ball drafts? Shawn Siegele breaks down his favorite deep sleeper options at receiver. The 2023 fantasy landscape features brutally WR-heavy tournament drafts. Those drafts become even more aggressive at WR when you look at the toughest rooms. Check out an OT listener league draft or a Best Ball Banana Stand contest. In…...
Dynasty Startups Are All About Guts and Patience: 13 Trade Ideas to Navigate Any Draft Environment
Shawn Siegele
August 16, 2023
Shawn Siegele explains the mechanism that makes trading down your dynasty startup superpower and details the types of trades you can and should make in real leagues. This weekend we posted Completely Revamp Your Startup Strategy With These 3 Key Insights, and in a year where I’ve had more fun writing than ever before, this was probably the piece that I enjoyed the most. If…...
A Couple of Stats That Might Change Your Mind About the Highest-Profile Running Back Committees
Shawn Siegele
August 16, 2023
Shawn Siegele offers a couple of contrarian stats to help you process – or grieve – the Dalvin Cook and Ezekiel Elliott signings. A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece arguing for Breece Hall as the most important player in fantasy. On Monday afternoon, Ben Gretch and I recorded our favorite podcast – the one where we give our first-round predictions for next year’s…...
Dynasty Workshop: Completely Revamp Your Superflex Startup Approach With 3 First-Round Insights
Shawn Siegele
August 13, 2023
Shawn Siegele looks at the first round of his 2023 dynasty startup and helps you avoid the mistakes that effectively eliminate squads from both short- and long-term contention. Bjorn Yang-Vaernet and I are currently involved in a dynasty startup in the RV TriFlex format at the FFPC. Since this lineup and scoring format have become the default for new dynasty leagues across the industry, these…...
This Cheap Underdog Hack Allows You to Create a Dominant Advantage at All Positions
Shawn Siegele
August 10, 2023
Shawn Siegele explores the evidence for a cheap Underdog hack that helps you dominate all positions and pushes your advance rates through the roof. When Colm Kelly and I draft our RotoViz Overtime squads, we tend to emphasize Zero RB constructions that include Elite TE builds. The WR-heavy approach dominated 2022, and top TEs often give you a trump card through the playoffs even when…...
5 Priority Wide Receiver Targets Who Are Also Dominating Early in Training Camp
Shawn Siegele
August 7, 2023
Shawn Siegele explains why these five WRs have been the foundation of his summer draft plans and why training camp developments are making them even better picks for your big redraft leagues this August. One consistent and justified refrain from our subscribers is that you want my 2023 Draft Plan early enough for most drafters to use it on the big day. While I’ll still…...
We’re Starting to Get Serious Jamaal Charles Vibes From a Young Star in an Ascending Offense
Shawn Siegele
August 3, 2023
Shawn Siegele looks at a young back who appears ready to make the leap to stardom, perhaps even infringing upon that rarefied air that’s usually saved for discussing Jamaal Charles. There’s never been a better season for buying superstar RBs at reasonable prices, and that includes the next wave of backs floundering in what used to be the Dead Zone. We’re only getting eight RBs…...
The Next Tony Pollard Has Less Backfield Competition and Is Already Blowing Up Camp
Shawn Siegele
August 1, 2023
Shawn Siegele breaks down the thesis for one of his favorite undervalued RBs and explains why the early-camp star could be the 2023 Tony Pollard . . . but with even more ceiling. Last year, we had four backs absolutely crush formats from what is traditionally the RB Dead Zone. Josh Jacobs and Miles Sanders were pure dead zoners, but two of their compatriots came…...
The Next Kittle Already Here? Plus, How Perpetual Reloading Put Us All-In on a Top Rookie Sleeper at WR
Shawn Siegele
July 28, 2023
Shawn Siegele looks at two young stars already excelling in training camp and lays down the rationale for a Perpetual Reloading approach that starts right from the dynasty startup draft. Bjorn Yang-Vaernet and I are about to embark on an RV TriFlex startup over at the FFPC, and we’ll keep you posted on the developments. Bjorn recently wrote a great piece breaking down the mix…...
A Must-Draft Player from Each of the First 5 Rounds in FFPC Main Event and Fantasy Pros Drafts
Shawn Siegele
July 27, 2023
Shawn Siegele starts his redraft strategy sessions with a look at the best pick in each of the first five rounds of the FFPC Main Event. The best part of fantasy football has arrived. We’ve reached redraft season. In 2023 drafters can win $1 million in both the $2,000 (Main Event) and $350 (Fantasy Pros) levels at the FFPC. You can plot to win the…...
What’s the Possible Upside for Aggressive Javonte Williams Drafters?
Shawn Siegele
July 26, 2023
Shawn Siegele looks at what it means for Javonte Williams to avoid PUP and what his trajectory will likely be if he stays healthy in 2023. Where should we be selecting him now in fantasy drafts? On a few podcasts last week, I mentioned that if the prices for Breece Hall and Williams were reversed, I’d still be trying to create at least some exposure…...
I’m Always Too High on Breece Hall, But Is That About to Pay Off?
Shawn Siegele
July 24, 2023
Breece Hall may be the most controversial fantasy selection this summer. The second-year player for New York took the league by storm last season before suffering an ACL tear in Week 7. Will he be the second coming of Adrian Peterson, or will his trajectory follow the path taken by J.K. Dobbins a year ago? Hall was put on PUP to begin training camp, but…...
How to Turn Elite-But-Lean WR Builds Into Deadly Tournament Rosters
Shawn Siegele
July 21, 2023
Shawn Siegele recommends aggressive draft selections to execute a trendy Underdog BBMIV draft plan that’s perfect for 2023. In the 2023 Underdog Workshop, I’m using the Roster Construction Explorer and Advance Rate Explorer to create evidence-based draft plans to handle any slot and room. The 2023 Underdog Workshop Will the Best-Parts Plan allow you to blend dominant tactics from 2021 and 2022? The evidence for…...
Tournaments Are About to Give Us 1 Must-Draft WR to Go With 1 Do-Not-Draft Bust
Shawn Siegele
July 19, 2023
Shawn Siegele explains why the hardest click in your draft also might be the player who wins you $3 million. In the 2023 FFPC and Underdog Best Ball Workshops, we’ve put together plans for balancing four objectives: Deploying draft structures that exploit the current year ADP landscape Selecting player archetypes with asymmetrical risk/reward profiles Generating additional ADP value within individual leagues Embracing the right type…...
Combining Double-Anchor RB, WR Storm Tactics, ADP Value, and Tournament Upside in Best Ball Mania IV
Shawn Siegele
July 12, 2023
Shawn Siegele breaks down all 18 picks from a Best Ball Mania IV draft on a team that balances ADP value, overall roster construction, and correlation plays. In the previous Underdog Workshop, we looked at how to blend league-winning traits from 2021 and 2022 while capitalizing on the unique ADP environment of 2023. That team featured a double-anchor at RB but combined upside WRs with…...
My Favorite Way to Beat the Underdog Avalanche Mixes Fun, Firepower, Safety, and Upside
Shawn Siegele
July 7, 2023
Shawn Siegele examines a Best Ball Banana Stand draft with Peter Overzet and asks whether we can use the pressure from a WR Avalanche draft to help us think about tactics that bridge the 2021 and 2022 seasons in Underdog. Pete and I draft a team in BBM4 every Wednesday morning, and these drafts tend to be extremely WR heavy. That creates an interesting mix…...
Tournament Champion or Crash and Burn? The Evidence For and Against a Contrarian Best Ball Play
Shawn Siegele
July 3, 2023
Shawn Siegele looks at the quarterback position in 2023 and dives into the tools to ask whether a deeply contrarian approach might be the answer that unlocks extreme upside builds. The RotoViz writers and subscribers have turned in some really big results over the years by gleaning insights from the Underdog and FFPC Roster Construction Explorers. If you understand what works year-in and year-out in…...
The Next DeVonta Smith Could Be the Perfect Way to Beat 2023’s WR Dead Zone
Shawn Siegele
June 27, 2023
Shawn Siegele dives deep into the evidence and breaks out the full RotoViz toolkit to help you find a receiver who profiles as the 2023 version of DeVonta Smith. In Part 1 of this series, I framed the project this way: You only have so many early-round selections. Players on the same NFL team are frequently dealing with the same team-level risks. That leads to…...
Manipulating the RB Dead Zone for Outsized Gains in 2023 – Stealing Bananas
Shawn Siegele
June 20, 2023
Ben Gretch and Shawn Siegele discuss the history and theory of the RB Dead Zone, explore how fantasy football ADP has shifted the dynamics in 2023, and give their favorite RB plays to exploit the inefficiencies. Subscribe to the RotoViz YouTube Channel here! HOSTS Stealing Signals creator Ben Gretch (@Yardspergretch) Subscribe to Stealing Signals and Stealing Lines today. RotoViz co-owner Shawn Siegele (@FF_Contrarian) SPONSORS Listeners
Best Ball Workshop: Drafters Are Still Giving You a Dominant QB Approach in the FFPC SF Tournament
Shawn Siegele
June 19, 2023
Shawn Siegele examines quarterback tactics in the FFPC Superflex tournament and explains why a tournament-winning approach is still alive and well. The FFPC Best Ball Superflex tournament has always been one of my favorite contests to participate in and write about in the workshop. The most fun I had writing a piece last year may have been How the RotoViz Tools Fueled a Team to…...
The Late Rounds Are a Black Hole at WR, But These 5 Deep Options Could Be Tournament Winners
Shawn Siegele
June 15, 2023
Does the Wide Receiver Avalanche have you on the defensive in summer best ball drafts? Shawn Siegele breaks down his favorite deep sleeper options at receiver. The 2023 fantasy landscape features brutally WR-heavy tournament drafts. Those drafts become even more aggressive at WR when you look at the toughest rooms. Check out an OT listener league draft or a Best Ball Banana Stand contest. In…...
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