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Javonte Williams Hopes for a Fast Start and Jaxon Smith-Njigba Gets a Warm Welcome: The Wrong Read, Week 1 – Part 2
Blair Andrews
September 10, 2023
The Wrong Read has had many lives — first as a reflection on insights from the RotoViz podcasts; then as a free-form space for exploring a variety of metrics and strategies. It will likely continue in that latter function, but at least for now — in season — it’s an in-depth matchup lookahead article. Each week I’ll gather advanced stats from our tools to paint…...
Bijan Robinson Gets His First Test and Ja’Marr Chase Attempts a Bounceback: The Wrong Read, Week 1
Blair Andrews
September 10, 2023
The Wrong Read has had many lives — first as a reflection on insights from the RotoViz podcasts; then as a free-form space for exploring a variety of metrics and strategies. It will likely continue in that latter function, but at least for now — in season — it’s an in-depth matchup lookahead article. Each week I’ll gather advanced stats from our tools to paint…...
Blair’s Updated Draft Tactics and Targets for 3 Crazy Days of FFPC Main Event and FantasyPros Drafts
Blair Andrews
September 7, 2023
With the kickoff of the NFL season just around the corner, the next three days present some exciting challenges for drafters. The FFPC Main Event and FantasyPros Championship drafts run through Saturday. If you’re drafting after the Thursday night game, you’re able to put those points directly into your starting lineup. These drafts are simultaneously some of the craziest, with Thursday night players moving up…...
RotoViz and Ship Chasing Team Up for a Shot at $1 Million, Part 2: The Great Pittsburgh Steelers Wide Receiver Debate
Blair Andrews
August 29, 2023
In what has become an offseason tradition, my RotoViz Report co-host Hasan Rahim and I joined up with the boys from Ship Chasing — Pat Kerrane, Peter Overzet, and Ben Gretch — to co-draft and co-manage an FFPC Main Event team. In past seasons we’ve drafted live on stream. This season we’re trying something different: a slow draft. In Part 1 we detailed the chaos…...
RotoViz and Ship Chasing Team Up for a Shot at $1 Million: The 5 Horsemen of the Main Event Bring Chaos to a Slow Draft
Blair Andrews
August 24, 2023
In what has become an offseason tradition, my RotoViz Report co-host Hasan Rahim and I joined up with the boys from Ship Chasing — Pat Kerrane, Peter Overzet, and Ben Gretch — to co-draft and co-manage an FFPC Main Event team. In past seasons we’ve drafted live on stream. This season we’re trying something different: a slow draft. The chaos of trying to mesh five…...
My Favorite Targets in Each Round: August Edition Part 2 – Filling Out a $3 Million Squad
Blair Andrews
August 14, 2023
Earlier in the offseason I looked at my favorite targets in Best Ball Mania IV. But a lot has changed since then. Now that we’re in the home stretch of best ball drafting season, let’s look again at some of the top targets in each round. Using our Underdog ADP tool — now with the ability to show an ADP Draft Grid — we can…...
My Favorite Targets in Each Round: The August Edition Part 1 – Foundation Picks
Blair Andrews
August 11, 2023
Earlier in the offseason I looked at my favorite targets in Best Ball Mania IV. But a lot has changed since then. Now that we’re in the home stretch of best ball drafting season, let’s look again at some of the top targets in each round. Using our Underdog ADP tool — now with the ability to show an ADP Draft Grid — we can…...
The Crucial Wide Receiver Stat That Drafters Forgot: How to Use Advanced WR Metrics to Beat ADP
Blair Andrews
August 2, 2023
My previous article examined which metrics are most predictive for wide receivers. I was concerned in that piece to show which metrics were both stable (predicted themselves) and useful (predicted fantasy points.) Today I want to ask a slightly different but even more important question: which WR metrics are most valuable? That is, which metrics give us an edge in fantasy drafts? It doesn’t help…...
How to Predict the Future: Why Fantasy Wide Receiver Evaluation Is Easier Than You Think, and Why So Many Get It Wrong
Blair Andrews
July 26, 2023
About two years ago I performed a deep dive into some of the advanced wide receiver metrics we had recently added to the site. The advanced metrics from Sports Info Solutions gave us a lot of predictive power and nuance, and helped to explain why some of the longstanding metrics we’ve used for years continue to be among the best for fantasy managers. With now…...
Late-Round Tight End Never Works — But It Might Work for Us: 7 Tight Ends in the Double-Digit Rounds to Help You Lean Into the WR Avalanche
Blair Andrews
July 18, 2023
Elite-tight-end builds — or even double-elite-TE builds — have long been a staple of winning roster construction principles at RotoViz. Even in Shawn Siegele’s foundational Zero-RB article, he mentions that his preferred construction in the first five rounds includes four WRs and a TE. Looking back at the win rates for elite TE builds shows that beginning your draft with a top TE provides a…...
Is the QB Window Still Viable? Exploring the Impact of Quarterback Breakouts and Injuries
Blair Andrews
July 8, 2023
Earlier this offseason, Michael Dubner suggested that elite quarterbacks can carry teams to the playoffs despite the elevated cost. Shawn Siegele has found a number of late options with breakout potential. Both rightly pointed out that the QB window did not provide the returns in 2022 that we’ve come to expect. Yet, in many ways, the death of the QB window has been greatly exaggerated…....
How to Use the Win the Flex and Range of Outcomes Tools to Find Undervalued Wide Receivers
Blair Andrews
June 22, 2023
RotoViz was a pioneer of the idea of structural drafting, often in tandem with the idea that the flex wins championships and that fantasy football drafts are a race to fill the flex. But we’ve always paired structural drafting with evidence-based player-level research. Success in fantasy is not as simple as drafting the right number of RBs or drafting a QB in the right round,…...
My Favorite Targets in Each Round of Early Underdog Drafts: Part 2 – The Correlation Picks
Blair Andrews
May 31, 2023
Best Ball Mania IV is in full swing, and player ADPs are becoming more rigid every day as drafters anchor to the number next to a player’s name. This situation gives savvy drafters an advantage though, as it makes it much easier to plan a draft round-by-round. Using our Underdog ADP tool — now with the ability to show an ADP Draft Grid — we…...
My Favorite Targets in Each Round of Early Underdog Drafts: Part 1 – The Foundation Picks
Blair Andrews
May 29, 2023
Best Ball Mania IV is in full swing, and player ADPs are becoming more rigid every day as drafters anchor to the number next to a player’s name. This situation gives savvy drafters an advantage though, as it makes it much easier to plan a draft round-by-round. Using our Underdog ADP tool — now with the ability to show an ADP Draft Grid — we…...
This Method for Crushing Underdog Tournaments With Rookie RBs Is Counterintuitive But Powerful
Blair Andrews
May 11, 2023
In Part 1, Blair Andrews argued that Jahmyr Gibbs is undervalued in best ball, even at his current valuation, right at the Round 3/4 turn. Rookie running backs drafted in the first 100 reality picks — especially those who are young — have a better chance than most other RBs to put up big scores in the fantasy playoffs. But an obvious question remains: can…...
Jahmyr Gibbs Is the Best Value in Every Draft: How to Find Rookie RB Stars in Underdog’s Best Ball Mania IV
Blair Andrews
May 9, 2023
Shawn Siegele, Dave Caban, Curtis Patrick, and I spent NFL Draft Sunday night arguing (in a friendly way) about rookie rankings and completing mock drafts for Volume 3 of the RotoViz Rookie Guide. I spent much of that time trying to convince my co-rankers that reasonable people could rank Jahmyr Gibbs as the rookie 1.01. I even took him first overall in one of our…...
Chase Brown’s Elite Production and Athleticism Could Help Him Earn an Immediate Role in Cincinnati
Blair Andrews
April 29, 2023
RotoViz writers have been keeping busy over the last two days with up-to-minute reactions for all the fantasy-relevant draft picks in the first three rounds. Be sure to check out our previous draft coverage and pre-draft research. Day 1 Instant Fantasy Reactions: Where the Stars Belong Now Superflex Rookie Draft Projections Following Round 1 Day 2 Instant Reactions: Rising Studs and Super Sleepers on a…...
Tyler Scott Has the Production Profile We Like to See, But Can He Make the Most of His Opportunities in Chicago?
Blair Andrews
April 29, 2023
RotoViz writers have been keeping busy over the last two days with up-to-minute reactions for all the fantasy-relevant draft picks in the first three rounds. Be sure to check out our previous draft coverage and pre-draft research. Day 1 Instant Fantasy Reactions: Where the Stars Belong Now Superflex Rookie Draft Projections Following Round 1 Day 2 Instant Reactions: Rising Studs and Super Sleepers on a…...
How to Smash the NFL Draft: Key RB Receiving Stats, Plus Other Advanced Metrics To Gain a Fantasy Edge
Blair Andrews
April 27, 2023
The NFL Draft is only hours away, and when it comes we will get our most telling indication of how our favorite prospects’ NFL careers might go. Nothing predicts NFL success better than draft position, in part because nothing determines early NFL opportunity quite like draft position. But just because draft position is the most predictive metric, that doesn’t mean it’s entirely efficient. . …....
Is the NFL Draft Efficient? Running Back Metrics That Help You Project the NFL Draft . . . and Then Beat It In Fantasy
Blair Andrews
April 27, 2023
The NFL Draft is only hours away, and when it comes we will get our most telling indication of how our favorite prospect’s NFL careers might go. Nothing predicts NFL success better than draft position, in part because nothing determines early NFL opportunity quite like draft position. But just because draft position is the most predictive metric, that doesn’t mean it’s entirely efficient. What do…...
Javonte Williams Hopes for a Fast Start and Jaxon Smith-Njigba Gets a Warm Welcome: The Wrong Read, Week 1 – Part 2
Blair Andrews
September 10, 2023
The Wrong Read has had many lives — first as a reflection on insights from the RotoViz podcasts; then as a free-form space for exploring a variety of metrics and strategies. It will likely continue in that latter function, but at least for now — in season — it’s an in-depth matchup lookahead article. Each week I’ll gather advanced stats from our tools to paint…...
Bijan Robinson Gets His First Test and Ja’Marr Chase Attempts a Bounceback: The Wrong Read, Week 1
Blair Andrews
September 10, 2023
The Wrong Read has had many lives — first as a reflection on insights from the RotoViz podcasts; then as a free-form space for exploring a variety of metrics and strategies. It will likely continue in that latter function, but at least for now — in season — it’s an in-depth matchup lookahead article. Each week I’ll gather advanced stats from our tools to paint…...
Blair’s Updated Draft Tactics and Targets for 3 Crazy Days of FFPC Main Event and FantasyPros Drafts
Blair Andrews
September 7, 2023
With the kickoff of the NFL season just around the corner, the next three days present some exciting challenges for drafters. The FFPC Main Event and FantasyPros Championship drafts run through Saturday. If you’re drafting after the Thursday night game, you’re able to put those points directly into your starting lineup. These drafts are simultaneously some of the craziest, with Thursday night players moving up…...
RotoViz and Ship Chasing Team Up for a Shot at $1 Million, Part 2: The Great Pittsburgh Steelers Wide Receiver Debate
Blair Andrews
August 29, 2023
In what has become an offseason tradition, my RotoViz Report co-host Hasan Rahim and I joined up with the boys from Ship Chasing — Pat Kerrane, Peter Overzet, and Ben Gretch — to co-draft and co-manage an FFPC Main Event team. In past seasons we’ve drafted live on stream. This season we’re trying something different: a slow draft. In Part 1 we detailed the chaos…...
RotoViz and Ship Chasing Team Up for a Shot at $1 Million: The 5 Horsemen of the Main Event Bring Chaos to a Slow Draft
Blair Andrews
August 24, 2023
In what has become an offseason tradition, my RotoViz Report co-host Hasan Rahim and I joined up with the boys from Ship Chasing — Pat Kerrane, Peter Overzet, and Ben Gretch — to co-draft and co-manage an FFPC Main Event team. In past seasons we’ve drafted live on stream. This season we’re trying something different: a slow draft. The chaos of trying to mesh five…...
My Favorite Targets in Each Round: August Edition Part 2 – Filling Out a $3 Million Squad
Blair Andrews
August 14, 2023
Earlier in the offseason I looked at my favorite targets in Best Ball Mania IV. But a lot has changed since then. Now that we’re in the home stretch of best ball drafting season, let’s look again at some of the top targets in each round. Using our Underdog ADP tool — now with the ability to show an ADP Draft Grid — we can…...
My Favorite Targets in Each Round: The August Edition Part 1 – Foundation Picks
Blair Andrews
August 11, 2023
Earlier in the offseason I looked at my favorite targets in Best Ball Mania IV. But a lot has changed since then. Now that we’re in the home stretch of best ball drafting season, let’s look again at some of the top targets in each round. Using our Underdog ADP tool — now with the ability to show an ADP Draft Grid — we can…...
The Crucial Wide Receiver Stat That Drafters Forgot: How to Use Advanced WR Metrics to Beat ADP
Blair Andrews
August 2, 2023
My previous article examined which metrics are most predictive for wide receivers. I was concerned in that piece to show which metrics were both stable (predicted themselves) and useful (predicted fantasy points.) Today I want to ask a slightly different but even more important question: which WR metrics are most valuable? That is, which metrics give us an edge in fantasy drafts? It doesn’t help…...
How to Predict the Future: Why Fantasy Wide Receiver Evaluation Is Easier Than You Think, and Why So Many Get It Wrong
Blair Andrews
July 26, 2023
About two years ago I performed a deep dive into some of the advanced wide receiver metrics we had recently added to the site. The advanced metrics from Sports Info Solutions gave us a lot of predictive power and nuance, and helped to explain why some of the longstanding metrics we’ve used for years continue to be among the best for fantasy managers. With now…...
Late-Round Tight End Never Works — But It Might Work for Us: 7 Tight Ends in the Double-Digit Rounds to Help You Lean Into the WR Avalanche
Blair Andrews
July 18, 2023
Elite-tight-end builds — or even double-elite-TE builds — have long been a staple of winning roster construction principles at RotoViz. Even in Shawn Siegele’s foundational Zero-RB article, he mentions that his preferred construction in the first five rounds includes four WRs and a TE. Looking back at the win rates for elite TE builds shows that beginning your draft with a top TE provides a…...
Is the QB Window Still Viable? Exploring the Impact of Quarterback Breakouts and Injuries
Blair Andrews
July 8, 2023
Earlier this offseason, Michael Dubner suggested that elite quarterbacks can carry teams to the playoffs despite the elevated cost. Shawn Siegele has found a number of late options with breakout potential. Both rightly pointed out that the QB window did not provide the returns in 2022 that we’ve come to expect. Yet, in many ways, the death of the QB window has been greatly exaggerated…....
How to Use the Win the Flex and Range of Outcomes Tools to Find Undervalued Wide Receivers
Blair Andrews
June 22, 2023
RotoViz was a pioneer of the idea of structural drafting, often in tandem with the idea that the flex wins championships and that fantasy football drafts are a race to fill the flex. But we’ve always paired structural drafting with evidence-based player-level research. Success in fantasy is not as simple as drafting the right number of RBs or drafting a QB in the right round,…...
My Favorite Targets in Each Round of Early Underdog Drafts: Part 2 – The Correlation Picks
Blair Andrews
May 31, 2023
Best Ball Mania IV is in full swing, and player ADPs are becoming more rigid every day as drafters anchor to the number next to a player’s name. This situation gives savvy drafters an advantage though, as it makes it much easier to plan a draft round-by-round. Using our Underdog ADP tool — now with the ability to show an ADP Draft Grid — we…...
My Favorite Targets in Each Round of Early Underdog Drafts: Part 1 – The Foundation Picks
Blair Andrews
May 29, 2023
Best Ball Mania IV is in full swing, and player ADPs are becoming more rigid every day as drafters anchor to the number next to a player’s name. This situation gives savvy drafters an advantage though, as it makes it much easier to plan a draft round-by-round. Using our Underdog ADP tool — now with the ability to show an ADP Draft Grid — we…...
This Method for Crushing Underdog Tournaments With Rookie RBs Is Counterintuitive But Powerful
Blair Andrews
May 11, 2023
In Part 1, Blair Andrews argued that Jahmyr Gibbs is undervalued in best ball, even at his current valuation, right at the Round 3/4 turn. Rookie running backs drafted in the first 100 reality picks — especially those who are young — have a better chance than most other RBs to put up big scores in the fantasy playoffs. But an obvious question remains: can…...
Jahmyr Gibbs Is the Best Value in Every Draft: How to Find Rookie RB Stars in Underdog’s Best Ball Mania IV
Blair Andrews
May 9, 2023
Shawn Siegele, Dave Caban, Curtis Patrick, and I spent NFL Draft Sunday night arguing (in a friendly way) about rookie rankings and completing mock drafts for Volume 3 of the RotoViz Rookie Guide. I spent much of that time trying to convince my co-rankers that reasonable people could rank Jahmyr Gibbs as the rookie 1.01. I even took him first overall in one of our…...
Chase Brown’s Elite Production and Athleticism Could Help Him Earn an Immediate Role in Cincinnati
Blair Andrews
April 29, 2023
RotoViz writers have been keeping busy over the last two days with up-to-minute reactions for all the fantasy-relevant draft picks in the first three rounds. Be sure to check out our previous draft coverage and pre-draft research. Day 1 Instant Fantasy Reactions: Where the Stars Belong Now Superflex Rookie Draft Projections Following Round 1 Day 2 Instant Reactions: Rising Studs and Super Sleepers on a…...
Tyler Scott Has the Production Profile We Like to See, But Can He Make the Most of His Opportunities in Chicago?
Blair Andrews
April 29, 2023
RotoViz writers have been keeping busy over the last two days with up-to-minute reactions for all the fantasy-relevant draft picks in the first three rounds. Be sure to check out our previous draft coverage and pre-draft research. Day 1 Instant Fantasy Reactions: Where the Stars Belong Now Superflex Rookie Draft Projections Following Round 1 Day 2 Instant Reactions: Rising Studs and Super Sleepers on a…...
How to Smash the NFL Draft: Key RB Receiving Stats, Plus Other Advanced Metrics To Gain a Fantasy Edge
Blair Andrews
April 27, 2023
The NFL Draft is only hours away, and when it comes we will get our most telling indication of how our favorite prospects’ NFL careers might go. Nothing predicts NFL success better than draft position, in part because nothing determines early NFL opportunity quite like draft position. But just because draft position is the most predictive metric, that doesn’t mean it’s entirely efficient. . …....
Is the NFL Draft Efficient? Running Back Metrics That Help You Project the NFL Draft . . . and Then Beat It In Fantasy
Blair Andrews
April 27, 2023
The NFL Draft is only hours away, and when it comes we will get our most telling indication of how our favorite prospect’s NFL careers might go. Nothing predicts NFL success better than draft position, in part because nothing determines early NFL opportunity quite like draft position. But just because draft position is the most predictive metric, that doesn’t mean it’s entirely efficient. What do…...
Javonte Williams Hopes for a Fast Start and Jaxon Smith-Njigba Gets a Warm Welcome: The Wrong Read, Week 1 – Part 2
Blair Andrews
September 10, 2023
The Wrong Read has had many lives — first as a reflection on insights from the RotoViz podcasts; then as a free-form space for exploring a variety of metrics and strategies. It will likely continue in that latter function, but at least for now — in season — it’s an in-depth matchup lookahead article. Each week I’ll gather advanced stats from our tools to paint…...
Bijan Robinson Gets His First Test and Ja’Marr Chase Attempts a Bounceback: The Wrong Read, Week 1
Blair Andrews
September 10, 2023
The Wrong Read has had many lives — first as a reflection on insights from the RotoViz podcasts; then as a free-form space for exploring a variety of metrics and strategies. It will likely continue in that latter function, but at least for now — in season — it’s an in-depth matchup lookahead article. Each week I’ll gather advanced stats from our tools to paint…...
Blair’s Updated Draft Tactics and Targets for 3 Crazy Days of FFPC Main Event and FantasyPros Drafts
Blair Andrews
September 7, 2023
With the kickoff of the NFL season just around the corner, the next three days present some exciting challenges for drafters. The FFPC Main Event and FantasyPros Championship drafts run through Saturday. If you’re drafting after the Thursday night game, you’re able to put those points directly into your starting lineup. These drafts are simultaneously some of the craziest, with Thursday night players moving up…...
RotoViz and Ship Chasing Team Up for a Shot at $1 Million, Part 2: The Great Pittsburgh Steelers Wide Receiver Debate
Blair Andrews
August 29, 2023
In what has become an offseason tradition, my RotoViz Report co-host Hasan Rahim and I joined up with the boys from Ship Chasing — Pat Kerrane, Peter Overzet, and Ben Gretch — to co-draft and co-manage an FFPC Main Event team. In past seasons we’ve drafted live on stream. This season we’re trying something different: a slow draft. In Part 1 we detailed the chaos…...
RotoViz and Ship Chasing Team Up for a Shot at $1 Million: The 5 Horsemen of the Main Event Bring Chaos to a Slow Draft
Blair Andrews
August 24, 2023
In what has become an offseason tradition, my RotoViz Report co-host Hasan Rahim and I joined up with the boys from Ship Chasing — Pat Kerrane, Peter Overzet, and Ben Gretch — to co-draft and co-manage an FFPC Main Event team. In past seasons we’ve drafted live on stream. This season we’re trying something different: a slow draft. The chaos of trying to mesh five…...
My Favorite Targets in Each Round: August Edition Part 2 – Filling Out a $3 Million Squad
Blair Andrews
August 14, 2023
Earlier in the offseason I looked at my favorite targets in Best Ball Mania IV. But a lot has changed since then. Now that we’re in the home stretch of best ball drafting season, let’s look again at some of the top targets in each round. Using our Underdog ADP tool — now with the ability to show an ADP Draft Grid — we can…...
My Favorite Targets in Each Round: The August Edition Part 1 – Foundation Picks
Blair Andrews
August 11, 2023
Earlier in the offseason I looked at my favorite targets in Best Ball Mania IV. But a lot has changed since then. Now that we’re in the home stretch of best ball drafting season, let’s look again at some of the top targets in each round. Using our Underdog ADP tool — now with the ability to show an ADP Draft Grid — we can…...
The Crucial Wide Receiver Stat That Drafters Forgot: How to Use Advanced WR Metrics to Beat ADP
Blair Andrews
August 2, 2023
My previous article examined which metrics are most predictive for wide receivers. I was concerned in that piece to show which metrics were both stable (predicted themselves) and useful (predicted fantasy points.) Today I want to ask a slightly different but even more important question: which WR metrics are most valuable? That is, which metrics give us an edge in fantasy drafts? It doesn’t help…...
How to Predict the Future: Why Fantasy Wide Receiver Evaluation Is Easier Than You Think, and Why So Many Get It Wrong
Blair Andrews
July 26, 2023
About two years ago I performed a deep dive into some of the advanced wide receiver metrics we had recently added to the site. The advanced metrics from Sports Info Solutions gave us a lot of predictive power and nuance, and helped to explain why some of the longstanding metrics we’ve used for years continue to be among the best for fantasy managers. With now…...
Late-Round Tight End Never Works — But It Might Work for Us: 7 Tight Ends in the Double-Digit Rounds to Help You Lean Into the WR Avalanche
Blair Andrews
July 18, 2023
Elite-tight-end builds — or even double-elite-TE builds — have long been a staple of winning roster construction principles at RotoViz. Even in Shawn Siegele’s foundational Zero-RB article, he mentions that his preferred construction in the first five rounds includes four WRs and a TE. Looking back at the win rates for elite TE builds shows that beginning your draft with a top TE provides a…...
Is the QB Window Still Viable? Exploring the Impact of Quarterback Breakouts and Injuries
Blair Andrews
July 8, 2023
Earlier this offseason, Michael Dubner suggested that elite quarterbacks can carry teams to the playoffs despite the elevated cost. Shawn Siegele has found a number of late options with breakout potential. Both rightly pointed out that the QB window did not provide the returns in 2022 that we’ve come to expect. Yet, in many ways, the death of the QB window has been greatly exaggerated…....
How to Use the Win the Flex and Range of Outcomes Tools to Find Undervalued Wide Receivers
Blair Andrews
June 22, 2023
RotoViz was a pioneer of the idea of structural drafting, often in tandem with the idea that the flex wins championships and that fantasy football drafts are a race to fill the flex. But we’ve always paired structural drafting with evidence-based player-level research. Success in fantasy is not as simple as drafting the right number of RBs or drafting a QB in the right round,…...
My Favorite Targets in Each Round of Early Underdog Drafts: Part 2 – The Correlation Picks
Blair Andrews
May 31, 2023
Best Ball Mania IV is in full swing, and player ADPs are becoming more rigid every day as drafters anchor to the number next to a player’s name. This situation gives savvy drafters an advantage though, as it makes it much easier to plan a draft round-by-round. Using our Underdog ADP tool — now with the ability to show an ADP Draft Grid — we…...
My Favorite Targets in Each Round of Early Underdog Drafts: Part 1 – The Foundation Picks
Blair Andrews
May 29, 2023
Best Ball Mania IV is in full swing, and player ADPs are becoming more rigid every day as drafters anchor to the number next to a player’s name. This situation gives savvy drafters an advantage though, as it makes it much easier to plan a draft round-by-round. Using our Underdog ADP tool — now with the ability to show an ADP Draft Grid — we…...
This Method for Crushing Underdog Tournaments With Rookie RBs Is Counterintuitive But Powerful
Blair Andrews
May 11, 2023
In Part 1, Blair Andrews argued that Jahmyr Gibbs is undervalued in best ball, even at his current valuation, right at the Round 3/4 turn. Rookie running backs drafted in the first 100 reality picks — especially those who are young — have a better chance than most other RBs to put up big scores in the fantasy playoffs. But an obvious question remains: can…...
Jahmyr Gibbs Is the Best Value in Every Draft: How to Find Rookie RB Stars in Underdog’s Best Ball Mania IV
Blair Andrews
May 9, 2023
Shawn Siegele, Dave Caban, Curtis Patrick, and I spent NFL Draft Sunday night arguing (in a friendly way) about rookie rankings and completing mock drafts for Volume 3 of the RotoViz Rookie Guide. I spent much of that time trying to convince my co-rankers that reasonable people could rank Jahmyr Gibbs as the rookie 1.01. I even took him first overall in one of our…...
Chase Brown’s Elite Production and Athleticism Could Help Him Earn an Immediate Role in Cincinnati
Blair Andrews
April 29, 2023
RotoViz writers have been keeping busy over the last two days with up-to-minute reactions for all the fantasy-relevant draft picks in the first three rounds. Be sure to check out our previous draft coverage and pre-draft research. Day 1 Instant Fantasy Reactions: Where the Stars Belong Now Superflex Rookie Draft Projections Following Round 1 Day 2 Instant Reactions: Rising Studs and Super Sleepers on a…...
Tyler Scott Has the Production Profile We Like to See, But Can He Make the Most of His Opportunities in Chicago?
Blair Andrews
April 29, 2023
RotoViz writers have been keeping busy over the last two days with up-to-minute reactions for all the fantasy-relevant draft picks in the first three rounds. Be sure to check out our previous draft coverage and pre-draft research. Day 1 Instant Fantasy Reactions: Where the Stars Belong Now Superflex Rookie Draft Projections Following Round 1 Day 2 Instant Reactions: Rising Studs and Super Sleepers on a…...
How to Smash the NFL Draft: Key RB Receiving Stats, Plus Other Advanced Metrics To Gain a Fantasy Edge
Blair Andrews
April 27, 2023
The NFL Draft is only hours away, and when it comes we will get our most telling indication of how our favorite prospects’ NFL careers might go. Nothing predicts NFL success better than draft position, in part because nothing determines early NFL opportunity quite like draft position. But just because draft position is the most predictive metric, that doesn’t mean it’s entirely efficient. . …....
Is the NFL Draft Efficient? Running Back Metrics That Help You Project the NFL Draft . . . and Then Beat It In Fantasy
Blair Andrews
April 27, 2023
The NFL Draft is only hours away, and when it comes we will get our most telling indication of how our favorite prospect’s NFL careers might go. Nothing predicts NFL success better than draft position, in part because nothing determines early NFL opportunity quite like draft position. But just because draft position is the most predictive metric, that doesn’t mean it’s entirely efficient. What do…...
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