How Game Script Affects Running Backs in Redraft and Best Ball Formats

Ryan Collinsworth
July 31, 2019

Game script: A concept easy to understand in the abstract but difficult to distill into quantifiable data. Those of us who play DFS understand game script through experience. A team gets down two scores early and begins to take more risks in the passing game. At the same time, the team with the lead begins to run the ball conservatively to burn time and keep...

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Long Live Brocktober: Week 7 DraftKings CFB GPP Breakdown

Ryan Collinsworth October 11, 2019

The CFB DFS season rolls on with 12 games in the DraftKings main slate for Week 7. What to Expect in This Breakdown Guaranteed prize pool (GPP) tournaments often reward sub-optimal lineup construction and game theory-based decision-making. It’s difficult — and perhaps even disingenuous — to recommend a handful of players devoid of metagame context. In cash contests, that works great, because identifying value and…...

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The Week 6 Ultimate Zero RB Watch List

Ryan Collinsworth October 10, 2019

Welcome to Week 6 of the Ultimate Zero RB Watchlist. The Watchlist helps you find running back targets for your Zero RB teams before anyone else even knows about them. We’ll take a close look at depth charts around the league in order to find the next-man-up situations that nobody is talking about … yet. Throughout the season, we’ll monitor playing time and usage to identify…...

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NFL Week 5 RB Market Share Report

Ryan Collinsworth October 8, 2019

Welcome to the Week 5 edition of the RB Market Share Report. In this column, I report usage statistics and advanced metrics for all NFL running backs. I will also summarize RB workload statistics for all 32 NFL teams and highlight key trends as applicable. I will publish updates to this column each week following the conclusion of Monday night’s games. As more games are played,…...