Here are the players I am targeting on the waiver wire for Week 11. If you’re in a deeper league, consider these trade targets instead of free agent acquisitions. Over the course of the season, @RIPatriot (Aaron Butler) or I will provide our overreactions every Monday morning to what happened in the NFL that week. One of us might show up in the other’s article…...

Here are the players I am targeting on the waiver wire for Week 8. If you’re in a deeper league, consider these trade targets instead of free agent acquisitions. Over the course of the season, @RIPatriot (Aaron Butler) or I will provide our overreactions every Monday morning to what happened in the NFL that week. One of us might show up in the other’s article…...

Here are the players I am targeting on the waiver wire for Week 6. If you’re in a deeper league, consider these trade targets instead of free agent acquisitions. Over the course of the season, @RIPatriot (Aaron Butler) or I will provide our overreactions every Monday morning to what happened in the NFL that week. One of us might show up in the other’s article…...

The Fantasy Football Players Championship is the largest season long, redraft contest in the world; a similar contest, the FootballGuys Players Championship, is hosted on the same website.  Learn more about the rules of the contests and how to enter next season by clicking on the links provided. Below is a table with the average weekly team score for every team that owns any given player in…...

Sixteen Rotoviz writers are doing their best Ryan Grigson impression in a salary cap based Dynasty league, hosted by RealitySportsOnline.com. Confronted by different circumstances, five of our writers found themselves making blockbuster deals less than a quarter of the way through our first season. Below, they explain their respective situations, and the rationale they used in making their trades. To avoid every writer having to repeat…...

Here are the players I am targeting on the waiver wire for Week 4. If you’re in a deeper league, consider these trade targets instead of free agent acquisitions. Over the course of the season, @RIPatriot (Aaron Butler) or I will provide our overreactions every Monday morning to what happened in the NFL that week. One of us might show up in the other’s article…...

Christine Michael has been traded to the Dallas Cowboys and Robert Turbin has been placed on season-ending injured reserve. The running backs left on the Seattle Seahawks roster are juggernaut Marshawn Lynch, newly acquired 34 year old Fred Jackson, and unheralded, unknown, undrafted rookie Thomas Rawls. In May, RotoViz super scout (and truth bearer of Kevin White’s real age) Jon Moore pegged several under-the-radar college…...

Putting the finishing touches on my yearly rankings is always the culmination of a months-long, exhaustive process that ends in that familiar mix of uneasy relief, cautious optimism, and intense anxiety. Draft week is finally upon us, and what has been hypothetical for nine months will soon become reality. Now that all the offseason tumult, preseason injuries, and sleepers getting ruined by hype from mainstream fantasy…...

Every year there are players that for whatever reason seem to have people on opposite ends of the opinion spectrum. This year, Andre Ellington is a player generating fiery discourse, with both his detractors and supporters throwing out anything they can to garner support for their side in the great battle. When examining the weapons of their respective artillery, I find it very hard to sympathize with…...

Jordy Nelson is done for the season. Whew. Quick reactions can reveal the way people naturally think about things, making what seem like logical, hypothetical correlations based on a significant event that just happened. Yesterday, when news broke of Nelson (probably) tearing his ACL, the reactions were immediate, plentiful, and full of narratives based on assumptions. Using the Game Splits App, the AYA App, a dash of…...

“When Odysseus heard the thunder of Zeus, he was pleased and knew that the day of punishment had come” -Homer Earlier this summer I wrote about how perception of the Rams offense was so negative that every player was a value at their ADP. Through Labor Day, the Chiefs offense can’t seem to shed a similar negative perception, causing all of their weapons to be…...

“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned” -W. Congreve This article is part of an ongoing series that explores ideas related to exploiting recency bias. The first concept, “chasing the dragon,” applies to Rob Gronkowski and Andrew Luck and can be found here. If players outperform their ADPs significantly, it creates a situation where they are drafted near their ceilings in the following year because everyone…...

@14TeamMocker might be the only C.J. Anderson denier left. He doesn’t think Anderson is worth his ADP cost of RB8, 13th overall.[1]ADP data courtesy of FantasyPros 8/17/15 Heith Krueger is going to attempt to shut him up, and get him to change his mind, before the season begins and it officially becomes too late. @14TeamMocker Peyton Manning was undeniably injured at the end of last…...

Mohamed Sanu started for Cincinnati in their first preseason game. If When people overreact and take Marvin Jones off their deep sleeper lists, the combination of price and upside will intersect like the sunshine and moisture that forms rainbows. Or the wind and moisture. Or whatever, I have no idea how rainbows are formed, but Marvin Jones could be the money sauce.   HEALTH According…...

“Father Time is undefeated” -Unknown This is not fun. There is nothing enjoyable about watching a Hall of Fame talent wind down their career and become a shell of their former self. Having to objectively, honestly analyze beloved players as they show age and usage related declination is extremely difficult to do emotionlessly. Extensive research has been done that shows curves players can be expected…...

Earlier in the summer I wrote about exploiting recency bias, and how people were overpaying for Rob Gronkowski and Andrew Luck because of something called Fear of Missing Out (FOMO). There is a frequently applied false correlation in fantasy football that the immediate future will resemble the immediate past, and it causes expectations to let price inflate beyond reason. The opposite of this is also…...

@RotoDoc has a PhD in Mathematics while @14TeamMocker has just been obsessed with Jamaal Charles for years. Below they debate the points and counterpoints of taking Charles as a top 3 overall redraft pick in 2015. (@14TeamMocker) This all started when @RotoDoc contributed to an article entitled “7 Fantasy Draft Ideas So Simple They Have To Be Right” by saying not to draft Jamaal Charles. The…...

“The best time to buy is when there’s blood in the streets.” -J.P. Morgan Don’t let ADPs fool you, they actually still play football in St. Louis. For some reason, Jeff Fisher is still the head coach, despite only winning 34 games in his last 5 seasons. While offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer was run out of town, Fisher was allowed to promote quarterbacks coach Frank…...

“Targets are the lifeblood of fantasy scoring.” A powerful title for a RotoViz article, and also a mantra for drafters. A lot of work is done trying to project which wide receivers will see massive volume, such as this piece, part of an ongoing series by our Kevin Cole. There is also a constant, ongoing effort to quantify how effective WRs are with their targets, both for…...

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