In this weekly article, Ryan Ramsarran uses the Advanced Stat Explorer and other RotoViz tools to dive deep into wide receiver usage trends. Usage is key for making waiver wire adds, start/sit decisions, and finding the next blow-up WR in DFS.
Week 6 is in the books, and it was filled with some crazy upsets. The Bills-Chiefs game was as wild as expected, with Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes throwing for over 325 yards each. Buffalo came out with the victory in a well-needed revenge game after the heartbreaking loss to the Chiefs in the playoffs last year.
Some of the wild upsets in Week 6:
- Pittsburgh defeated Tampa Bay: 20 – 18
- New York Giants defeated Baltimore: 24 – 20
- New York Jets defeated Green Bay: 27 – 10
- Seattle defeated Arizona: 19 – 9
- Atlanta defeated San Francisco: 28 – 14
Routes Run and Routes per Target
Routes run is the first key statistic I’ll focus on because WRs need to be on the field to produce. The second statistic is routes per target. Unlike RB usage, targets are earned as a WR and routes per target is a helpful measure in figuring out which players are good (or which players coaches want to get the ball to).
*Routes for Monday’s game are not included