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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The Elations of Action and Reaction: 12 Chops and a Champion

“Look, you wanna know the truth? I don’t really care about the stats or the cup or the trophy or anything like that. In fact even the games aren’t that important to me. What matters to me is the perfect throw, making the perfect catch, the perfect step and block. Perfection. That’s what it’s about. It’s those moments. When you can feel the perfection of…...

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Zero RB Universe: Week 6 – The Plot Thickens . . . and Tyrone Tracy Looks Awfully Good

Shawn Siegele breaks down the Zero RB Universe with trade ideas, deep stashes, start/sit thoughts, and much more as we head toward Week 6 of the 2024 fantasy football season. The Zero RB Universe covers the entire RB landscape, not just a single type of build. This isn’t a waiver wire piece. Kevin Szafraniec has you covered for that. We’re trying to understand the RB position…...

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Do Not Eliminate the Impossible: The Bengals Play to (Almost) Win and (Almost) Do; It’s Only a Matter of Time – Brock Bowers Is Going to Go for 40

Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible. ― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency Now this is fantasy football. In today’s exercise I’ll be breaking down the key box score developments and the key plays beyond the box score from Week 5 episodes of Stealing…...

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Zero RB Universe: Week 5 – Time to Dominate the Bye Weeks

Shawn Siegele breaks down the Zero RB Universe with trade ideas, deep stashes, start/sit thoughts, and much more as we head toward Week 5 of the 2024 fantasy football season. The Zero RB Universe covers the entire RB landscape, not just a single type of build. This isn’t a waiver wire piece. Kevin Szafraniec has you covered for that. We’re trying to understand the RB position…...

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Didn’t Even Have to Think About It: Jayden Reed, Chase Brown, and Jordan Addison Offer an ROS Preview

Why would a review make the point of saying someone’s not a genius? You think I’m especially not a genius? [Pause] You didn’t even have to think about it, did you? – Eli Cash, The Royal Tenenbaums Bears’ leaders met with Shane Waldron and he responded with D’Andre Swift Unleashed. But on a week where Rashee Rice was lost for the season, it’s imperative to focus on the…...

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Zero RB Universe: Week 4 – The Upstarts Are Beginning to Make a Push

Shawn Siegele breaks down the Zero RB Universe with trade ideas, deep stashes, start/sit thoughts, and much more as we head toward Week 4 of the 2024 fantasy football season. The Zero RB Universe covers the entire RB landscape, not just a single type of build. This isn’t a waiver wire piece. Kevin Szafraniec has you covered for that. We’re trying to understand the RB position…...

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Endless Imagination, Emergency Landings, and the Fantasy Brilliance of Kyren Williams and Cole Kmet

“Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude Between burgeoning injury lists and…...

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Top 200 Dynasty Rankings: Just How High Do the Rookies Climb? Plus the Updated Trade-Value Tiers

Shawn Siegele works through each of the 10 trade-value tiers and provides his full updated Dynasty Superflex rankings heading into Week 3 of the 2024 fantasy football season. While we put a lot of emphasis on redraft and best ball throughout the year, dynasty is the format where you can best exploit our focus on prospect evaluation and contingency-based drafting. Our dynasty philosophy is to…...

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Zero RB Universe: Week 2 – Jahmyr Gibbs and De’Von Achane Are Closing in on Superstardom

Shawn Siegele breaks down the Zero RB Universe with trade ideas, deep stashes, start/sit thoughts, and much more as we head toward Week 3 of the 2024 fantasy football season. The Zero RB Universe covers the entire RB landscape, not just a single type of build. This isn’t a waiver wire piece. Kevin Szafraniec has you covered for that. We’re trying to understand the RB…...

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Guillotine Leagues: How to Think About the Most Controversial Players in Fantasy

Shawn Siegele provides tactical insight for bidding in guillotine leagues and breaks down the future outlook for Mark Andrews, Stefon Diggs, Josh Allen, Dalton Kincaid, Darnell Mooney, Joe Mixon, and Zack Moss. My favorite scoreboard-watching experience over the first couple of weeks has come in my Guillotine Leagues. Since every week is a must-win — or probably more accurately, a must-not-lose-big — you’re on the…...

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A Horse With An Arrow: The Free JSN Community Can Finally Breathe a Little Bit Easier

A man . . . sees a unicorn cross his path and disappear. That in itself is startling, but there are precedents for mystical encounters of various kinds, or a choice of persuasions to put it down to fancy; until–“My God,” says a second man, “I must be dreaming, I thought I saw a unicorn.” At which point, a dimension is added that makes the…...

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Zero RB Universe: Week 2 – Deep Stashes, Dynasty Trades, Start/Sits, and Much More

Shawn Siegele breaks down the Zero RB Universe with trade ideas, deep stashes, start/sit thoughts, and much more as we head toward Week 2 of the 2024 fantasy football season. The Zero RB Universe is a labor of love, and covers the entire RB landscape, not just a single type of build. This isn’t a waiver wire piece. Kevin Szafraniec has you covered for that…....

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Blood Is Compulsory: The 2 Best Deep League Buys from Sunday’s Most Exhilarating Matchup

I can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and I can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and I can do you all three concurrent or consecutive, but I can’t do you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory—they’re all blood, you see. – Tom Stoppard, Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead This is the quote that always jumps out to…...

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4,500 FantasyPros Teams Remain Across 3 Glorious Days of Drafting: The Dominant Redraft Builds and Contrarian Player Selections to Create $1 Million Upside from Any Draft Slot 

Shawn Siegele breaks down his player selections and tactical decisions for attacking any FFPC FantasyPros draft slot and provides links to the full RotoViz redraft strategy sessions. As we head toward kickoff of the 2024 NFL season this evening, you probably feel excitement tinged with regret for every draft bypassed, every opportunity to win $1 million missed. Here’s the good news: the FFPC will be…...

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Already Looking for a Rest-Of-Season League? Guillotine Formats Offer the Best Home League Experience: Can You Survive the Chop?

Shawn Siegele explains why Guillotine leagues will eventually become your new home-league default, details his strategic objectives in these formats, and breaks down a Stealing Bananas draft with Ben Gretch. A couple of years ago, Colm Kelly, Ben, and I participated in a guillotine league for charity, and it was one of our favorite fantasy experiences. It’s impossible to overstate the excitement of waivers when…...

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2024 Zero RB Candidates Countdown: The Update – 3 Huge Swings Enter, 3 Sadly Depart

Shawn Siegele updates the 2024 Zero RB Candidates Countdown as we head into the home stretch of fantasy football draft season. As I mentioned in yesterday’s Priority Targets – The Update, we’ve received some meaningful new information and I’ve participated in a flurry of high-stakes drafts since the Countdown came out. The list doesn’t change dramatically, because these plays are almost entirely talent-based. In cases…...

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Shawn’s 2024 Redraft Game Plan (The Update): 27 Priority Targets to Crush Your Biggest Drafts

In 2024 Redraft Game Plan: The Update, Shawn Siegele provides his 27 priority targets for fantasy football draft weekend. Since releasing last week’s 24 Priority Targets for High Stakes and 25 Priority Targets for Home Leagues, we’ve published an avalanche of additional research, NFL reality teams have made roster moves, and I’ve drafted a large number of new fantasy rosters. Ben Gretch and I drafted…...

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2024 Zero RB Candidates Countdown: The Watch List – 9 Running Backs to Keep on Speed Dial

Shawn Siegele breaks down the most intriguing deep RB stashes following NFL roster cutdowns. I should have the 2024 Zero RB Candidates Countdown: The Update ready for final prep as you head into your biggest drafts this weekend. Until then, I’ve put together a look at my favorite deep options and final round picks. Last year’s Watch List included Kyren Williams. In case you missed…...

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The 5 Craziest Values in FFPC $350 Redraft Contests: No. 1 – The Best Dead Zone RB Option Is Not James Cook

Shawn Siegele brings you his five favorite upside values in the FFPC FantasyPros contest. At No. 1 we find a Dead Zone running back ready to make the leap to superstardom . . . and it’s not James Cook. Right now there’s no question about your best chance to win $1 million in fantasy football this season. It’s the FFPC $350 FantasyPros contest. Blair Andrews has…...

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Home League Titles Live Forever: 10 Upside Plays to Crush Your Most Important Draft

Shawn Siegele provides his 10 favorite upside plays to crush your home league drafts this weekend. A few days ago I released my 25 Priority Targets for Home Leagues with ESPN ADP. Our priority recommendations are built on three concepts. Crafting rosters with an extreme emphasis on talent Emphasizing players who provide exposure to scenarios with explosive upside Leveraging cost such that drafters have plenty…...

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The Elations of Action and Reaction: 12 Chops and a Champion

“Look, you wanna know the truth? I don’t really care about the stats or the cup or the trophy or anything like that. In fact even the games aren’t that important to me. What matters to me is the perfect throw, making the perfect catch, the perfect step and block. Perfection. That’s what it’s about. It’s those moments. When you can feel the perfection of…...

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Zero RB Universe: Week 6 – The Plot Thickens . . . and Tyrone Tracy Looks Awfully Good

Shawn Siegele breaks down the Zero RB Universe with trade ideas, deep stashes, start/sit thoughts, and much more as we head toward Week 6 of the 2024 fantasy football season. The Zero RB Universe covers the entire RB landscape, not just a single type of build. This isn’t a waiver wire piece. Kevin Szafraniec has you covered for that. We’re trying to understand the RB position…...

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Do Not Eliminate the Impossible: The Bengals Play to (Almost) Win and (Almost) Do; It’s Only a Matter of Time – Brock Bowers Is Going to Go for 40

Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible. ― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency Now this is fantasy football. In today’s exercise I’ll be breaking down the key box score developments and the key plays beyond the box score from Week 5 episodes of Stealing…...

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Zero RB Universe: Week 5 – Time to Dominate the Bye Weeks

Shawn Siegele breaks down the Zero RB Universe with trade ideas, deep stashes, start/sit thoughts, and much more as we head toward Week 5 of the 2024 fantasy football season. The Zero RB Universe covers the entire RB landscape, not just a single type of build. This isn’t a waiver wire piece. Kevin Szafraniec has you covered for that. We’re trying to understand the RB position…...

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Didn’t Even Have to Think About It: Jayden Reed, Chase Brown, and Jordan Addison Offer an ROS Preview

Why would a review make the point of saying someone’s not a genius? You think I’m especially not a genius? [Pause] You didn’t even have to think about it, did you? – Eli Cash, The Royal Tenenbaums Bears’ leaders met with Shane Waldron and he responded with D’Andre Swift Unleashed. But on a week where Rashee Rice was lost for the season, it’s imperative to focus on the…...

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Zero RB Universe: Week 4 – The Upstarts Are Beginning to Make a Push

Shawn Siegele breaks down the Zero RB Universe with trade ideas, deep stashes, start/sit thoughts, and much more as we head toward Week 4 of the 2024 fantasy football season. The Zero RB Universe covers the entire RB landscape, not just a single type of build. This isn’t a waiver wire piece. Kevin Szafraniec has you covered for that. We’re trying to understand the RB position…...

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Endless Imagination, Emergency Landings, and the Fantasy Brilliance of Kyren Williams and Cole Kmet

“Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude Between burgeoning injury lists and…...

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Top 200 Dynasty Rankings: Just How High Do the Rookies Climb? Plus the Updated Trade-Value Tiers

Shawn Siegele works through each of the 10 trade-value tiers and provides his full updated Dynasty Superflex rankings heading into Week 3 of the 2024 fantasy football season. While we put a lot of emphasis on redraft and best ball throughout the year, dynasty is the format where you can best exploit our focus on prospect evaluation and contingency-based drafting. Our dynasty philosophy is to…...

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Zero RB Universe: Week 2 – Jahmyr Gibbs and De’Von Achane Are Closing in on Superstardom

Shawn Siegele breaks down the Zero RB Universe with trade ideas, deep stashes, start/sit thoughts, and much more as we head toward Week 3 of the 2024 fantasy football season. The Zero RB Universe covers the entire RB landscape, not just a single type of build. This isn’t a waiver wire piece. Kevin Szafraniec has you covered for that. We’re trying to understand the RB…...

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Guillotine Leagues: How to Think About the Most Controversial Players in Fantasy

Shawn Siegele provides tactical insight for bidding in guillotine leagues and breaks down the future outlook for Mark Andrews, Stefon Diggs, Josh Allen, Dalton Kincaid, Darnell Mooney, Joe Mixon, and Zack Moss. My favorite scoreboard-watching experience over the first couple of weeks has come in my Guillotine Leagues. Since every week is a must-win — or probably more accurately, a must-not-lose-big — you’re on the…...

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A Horse With An Arrow: The Free JSN Community Can Finally Breathe a Little Bit Easier

A man . . . sees a unicorn cross his path and disappear. That in itself is startling, but there are precedents for mystical encounters of various kinds, or a choice of persuasions to put it down to fancy; until–“My God,” says a second man, “I must be dreaming, I thought I saw a unicorn.” At which point, a dimension is added that makes the…...

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Zero RB Universe: Week 2 – Deep Stashes, Dynasty Trades, Start/Sits, and Much More

Shawn Siegele breaks down the Zero RB Universe with trade ideas, deep stashes, start/sit thoughts, and much more as we head toward Week 2 of the 2024 fantasy football season. The Zero RB Universe is a labor of love, and covers the entire RB landscape, not just a single type of build. This isn’t a waiver wire piece. Kevin Szafraniec has you covered for that…....

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Blood Is Compulsory: The 2 Best Deep League Buys from Sunday’s Most Exhilarating Matchup

I can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and I can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and I can do you all three concurrent or consecutive, but I can’t do you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory—they’re all blood, you see. – Tom Stoppard, Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead This is the quote that always jumps out to…...

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4,500 FantasyPros Teams Remain Across 3 Glorious Days of Drafting: The Dominant Redraft Builds and Contrarian Player Selections to Create $1 Million Upside from Any Draft Slot 

Shawn Siegele breaks down his player selections and tactical decisions for attacking any FFPC FantasyPros draft slot and provides links to the full RotoViz redraft strategy sessions. As we head toward kickoff of the 2024 NFL season this evening, you probably feel excitement tinged with regret for every draft bypassed, every opportunity to win $1 million missed. Here’s the good news: the FFPC will be…...

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Already Looking for a Rest-Of-Season League? Guillotine Formats Offer the Best Home League Experience: Can You Survive the Chop?

Shawn Siegele explains why Guillotine leagues will eventually become your new home-league default, details his strategic objectives in these formats, and breaks down a Stealing Bananas draft with Ben Gretch. A couple of years ago, Colm Kelly, Ben, and I participated in a guillotine league for charity, and it was one of our favorite fantasy experiences. It’s impossible to overstate the excitement of waivers when…...

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2024 Zero RB Candidates Countdown: The Update – 3 Huge Swings Enter, 3 Sadly Depart

Shawn Siegele updates the 2024 Zero RB Candidates Countdown as we head into the home stretch of fantasy football draft season. As I mentioned in yesterday’s Priority Targets – The Update, we’ve received some meaningful new information and I’ve participated in a flurry of high-stakes drafts since the Countdown came out. The list doesn’t change dramatically, because these plays are almost entirely talent-based. In cases…...

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Shawn’s 2024 Redraft Game Plan (The Update): 27 Priority Targets to Crush Your Biggest Drafts

In 2024 Redraft Game Plan: The Update, Shawn Siegele provides his 27 priority targets for fantasy football draft weekend. Since releasing last week’s 24 Priority Targets for High Stakes and 25 Priority Targets for Home Leagues, we’ve published an avalanche of additional research, NFL reality teams have made roster moves, and I’ve drafted a large number of new fantasy rosters. Ben Gretch and I drafted…...

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2024 Zero RB Candidates Countdown: The Watch List – 9 Running Backs to Keep on Speed Dial

Shawn Siegele breaks down the most intriguing deep RB stashes following NFL roster cutdowns. I should have the 2024 Zero RB Candidates Countdown: The Update ready for final prep as you head into your biggest drafts this weekend. Until then, I’ve put together a look at my favorite deep options and final round picks. Last year’s Watch List included Kyren Williams. In case you missed…...

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The 5 Craziest Values in FFPC $350 Redraft Contests: No. 1 – The Best Dead Zone RB Option Is Not James Cook

Shawn Siegele brings you his five favorite upside values in the FFPC FantasyPros contest. At No. 1 we find a Dead Zone running back ready to make the leap to superstardom . . . and it’s not James Cook. Right now there’s no question about your best chance to win $1 million in fantasy football this season. It’s the FFPC $350 FantasyPros contest. Blair Andrews has…...

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Home League Titles Live Forever: 10 Upside Plays to Crush Your Most Important Draft

Shawn Siegele provides his 10 favorite upside plays to crush your home league drafts this weekend. A few days ago I released my 25 Priority Targets for Home Leagues with ESPN ADP. Our priority recommendations are built on three concepts. Crafting rosters with an extreme emphasis on talent Emphasizing players who provide exposure to scenarios with explosive upside Leveraging cost such that drafters have plenty…...

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The Elations of Action and Reaction: 12 Chops and a Champion

“Look, you wanna know the truth? I don’t really care about the stats or the cup or the trophy or anything like that. In fact even the games aren’t that important to me. What matters to me is the perfect throw, making the perfect catch, the perfect step and block. Perfection. That’s what it’s about. It’s those moments. When you can feel the perfection of…...

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Zero RB Universe: Week 6 – The Plot Thickens . . . and Tyrone Tracy Looks Awfully Good

Shawn Siegele breaks down the Zero RB Universe with trade ideas, deep stashes, start/sit thoughts, and much more as we head toward Week 6 of the 2024 fantasy football season. The Zero RB Universe covers the entire RB landscape, not just a single type of build. This isn’t a waiver wire piece. Kevin Szafraniec has you covered for that. We’re trying to understand the RB position…...

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Do Not Eliminate the Impossible: The Bengals Play to (Almost) Win and (Almost) Do; It’s Only a Matter of Time – Brock Bowers Is Going to Go for 40

Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible. ― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency Now this is fantasy football. In today’s exercise I’ll be breaking down the key box score developments and the key plays beyond the box score from Week 5 episodes of Stealing…...

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Zero RB Universe: Week 5 – Time to Dominate the Bye Weeks

Shawn Siegele breaks down the Zero RB Universe with trade ideas, deep stashes, start/sit thoughts, and much more as we head toward Week 5 of the 2024 fantasy football season. The Zero RB Universe covers the entire RB landscape, not just a single type of build. This isn’t a waiver wire piece. Kevin Szafraniec has you covered for that. We’re trying to understand the RB position…...

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Didn’t Even Have to Think About It: Jayden Reed, Chase Brown, and Jordan Addison Offer an ROS Preview

Why would a review make the point of saying someone’s not a genius? You think I’m especially not a genius? [Pause] You didn’t even have to think about it, did you? – Eli Cash, The Royal Tenenbaums Bears’ leaders met with Shane Waldron and he responded with D’Andre Swift Unleashed. But on a week where Rashee Rice was lost for the season, it’s imperative to focus on the…...

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Zero RB Universe: Week 4 – The Upstarts Are Beginning to Make a Push

Shawn Siegele breaks down the Zero RB Universe with trade ideas, deep stashes, start/sit thoughts, and much more as we head toward Week 4 of the 2024 fantasy football season. The Zero RB Universe covers the entire RB landscape, not just a single type of build. This isn’t a waiver wire piece. Kevin Szafraniec has you covered for that. We’re trying to understand the RB position…...

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Endless Imagination, Emergency Landings, and the Fantasy Brilliance of Kyren Williams and Cole Kmet

“Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude Between burgeoning injury lists and…...

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Top 200 Dynasty Rankings: Just How High Do the Rookies Climb? Plus the Updated Trade-Value Tiers

Shawn Siegele works through each of the 10 trade-value tiers and provides his full updated Dynasty Superflex rankings heading into Week 3 of the 2024 fantasy football season. While we put a lot of emphasis on redraft and best ball throughout the year, dynasty is the format where you can best exploit our focus on prospect evaluation and contingency-based drafting. Our dynasty philosophy is to…...

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Zero RB Universe: Week 2 – Jahmyr Gibbs and De’Von Achane Are Closing in on Superstardom

Shawn Siegele breaks down the Zero RB Universe with trade ideas, deep stashes, start/sit thoughts, and much more as we head toward Week 3 of the 2024 fantasy football season. The Zero RB Universe covers the entire RB landscape, not just a single type of build. This isn’t a waiver wire piece. Kevin Szafraniec has you covered for that. We’re trying to understand the RB…...

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Guillotine Leagues: How to Think About the Most Controversial Players in Fantasy

Shawn Siegele provides tactical insight for bidding in guillotine leagues and breaks down the future outlook for Mark Andrews, Stefon Diggs, Josh Allen, Dalton Kincaid, Darnell Mooney, Joe Mixon, and Zack Moss. My favorite scoreboard-watching experience over the first couple of weeks has come in my Guillotine Leagues. Since every week is a must-win — or probably more accurately, a must-not-lose-big — you’re on the…...

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A Horse With An Arrow: The Free JSN Community Can Finally Breathe a Little Bit Easier

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Zero RB Universe: Week 2 – Deep Stashes, Dynasty Trades, Start/Sits, and Much More

Shawn Siegele breaks down the Zero RB Universe with trade ideas, deep stashes, start/sit thoughts, and much more as we head toward Week 2 of the 2024 fantasy football season. The Zero RB Universe is a labor of love, and covers the entire RB landscape, not just a single type of build. This isn’t a waiver wire piece. Kevin Szafraniec has you covered for that…....

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Blood Is Compulsory: The 2 Best Deep League Buys from Sunday’s Most Exhilarating Matchup

I can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and I can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and I can do you all three concurrent or consecutive, but I can’t do you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory—they’re all blood, you see. – Tom Stoppard, Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead This is the quote that always jumps out to…...

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4,500 FantasyPros Teams Remain Across 3 Glorious Days of Drafting: The Dominant Redraft Builds and Contrarian Player Selections to Create $1 Million Upside from Any Draft Slot 

Shawn Siegele breaks down his player selections and tactical decisions for attacking any FFPC FantasyPros draft slot and provides links to the full RotoViz redraft strategy sessions. As we head toward kickoff of the 2024 NFL season this evening, you probably feel excitement tinged with regret for every draft bypassed, every opportunity to win $1 million missed. Here’s the good news: the FFPC will be…...

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Already Looking for a Rest-Of-Season League? Guillotine Formats Offer the Best Home League Experience: Can You Survive the Chop?

Shawn Siegele explains why Guillotine leagues will eventually become your new home-league default, details his strategic objectives in these formats, and breaks down a Stealing Bananas draft with Ben Gretch. A couple of years ago, Colm Kelly, Ben, and I participated in a guillotine league for charity, and it was one of our favorite fantasy experiences. It’s impossible to overstate the excitement of waivers when…...

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2024 Zero RB Candidates Countdown: The Update – 3 Huge Swings Enter, 3 Sadly Depart

Shawn Siegele updates the 2024 Zero RB Candidates Countdown as we head into the home stretch of fantasy football draft season. As I mentioned in yesterday’s Priority Targets – The Update, we’ve received some meaningful new information and I’ve participated in a flurry of high-stakes drafts since the Countdown came out. The list doesn’t change dramatically, because these plays are almost entirely talent-based. In cases…...

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Shawn’s 2024 Redraft Game Plan (The Update): 27 Priority Targets to Crush Your Biggest Drafts

In 2024 Redraft Game Plan: The Update, Shawn Siegele provides his 27 priority targets for fantasy football draft weekend. Since releasing last week’s 24 Priority Targets for High Stakes and 25 Priority Targets for Home Leagues, we’ve published an avalanche of additional research, NFL reality teams have made roster moves, and I’ve drafted a large number of new fantasy rosters. Ben Gretch and I drafted…...

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2024 Zero RB Candidates Countdown: The Watch List – 9 Running Backs to Keep on Speed Dial

Shawn Siegele breaks down the most intriguing deep RB stashes following NFL roster cutdowns. I should have the 2024 Zero RB Candidates Countdown: The Update ready for final prep as you head into your biggest drafts this weekend. Until then, I’ve put together a look at my favorite deep options and final round picks. Last year’s Watch List included Kyren Williams. In case you missed…...

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The 5 Craziest Values in FFPC $350 Redraft Contests: No. 1 – The Best Dead Zone RB Option Is Not James Cook

Shawn Siegele brings you his five favorite upside values in the FFPC FantasyPros contest. At No. 1 we find a Dead Zone running back ready to make the leap to superstardom . . . and it’s not James Cook. Right now there’s no question about your best chance to win $1 million in fantasy football this season. It’s the FFPC $350 FantasyPros contest. Blair Andrews has…...

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Home League Titles Live Forever: 10 Upside Plays to Crush Your Most Important Draft

Shawn Siegele provides his 10 favorite upside plays to crush your home league drafts this weekend. A few days ago I released my 25 Priority Targets for Home Leagues with ESPN ADP. Our priority recommendations are built on three concepts. Crafting rosters with an extreme emphasis on talent Emphasizing players who provide exposure to scenarios with explosive upside Leveraging cost such that drafters have plenty…...

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