The Zero RB Watch List provides analysis for Zero RB and RB-heavy owners alike. Shawn Siegele examines the running back workloads for every NFC backfield from Week 6. I’m filling in for Ryan Collinsworth this week and immediately get to discuss hot button players like Miles Sanders and Darrell Henderson. We’ll use the RotoViz Screener and NFL Stats Explorer to dive into the advanced stats…...

Shawn Siegele looks at the most explosive wide receiver performances of Week 6, including a 43-point eruption from Stefon Diggs. After one of the most epic weeks in fantasy football history, Week 6 offered a season-low three WRs reaching double digits in fantasy points over expectation (FPOE). Stefon Diggs Through five weeks, Stefon Diggs was WR52. After his 43.5-point explosion in Week 6, he moves…...

Mike Beers has added the 2019 BestBall10s Player Win Rates Tracker to his suite of advanced best ball apps. This offseason RotoViz users deployed the FFPC Command Center, the multi-format Roster Construction Explorer, and the Exposures and ADP tools to plot strategy and hone tactics for the 2019 season. Now you can track the progress of your individual players and see how they’re contributing to…...

Shawn Siegele looks at the best QB streaming options for Week 6, presents a deep superflex option, and offers a sneaky 2-QB trade target. I’m filling in for Giana Pacinelli during her vacation and will again be focusing on the Game Level Similarity Projections. With the Week 6 matchups in mind, we can pull up the GLSP numbers to see how similar QBs have played…...

Week 5 of the 2019 fantasy football season was one for the ages. Shawn Siegele investigates the impact of heroic performances from Will Fuller, Aaron Jones, Christian McCaffrey, and Michael Thomas. He places these 40-point performances in historical perspective and discusses how a shootout Sunday may change the entire season. When I go through my high stakes, dynasty, and best ball rosters, there are a…...

Shawn Siegele looks at the best QB streaming options for Week 5, presents a deep superflex option, and offers a sneaky 2-QB trade target. I’m filling in for Giana Pacinelli as she enjoys her vacation. I love the format for her piece and won’t sully it by trying to replicate it here. Instead, I’m going to focus on a couple of my obsessions – the…...

Shawn Siegele looks at the most explosive wide receiver performances of Week 4 and praises a sudden outburst from the Titans passing game. The top WR performances in fantasy points over expectation (reFPOE) didn’t come from the usual suspects this week. Instead we had two former first-round busts, last week’s buy-low candidate, a third receiver from a supposedly run-first squad, and an injured player whose…...

Few teams entered the 2019 NFL season with higher expectations than the Cleveland Browns. And few fanbases have ever seemed more deserving of a turnaround. The Browns won only four games from 2015 to 2017, but even that understates the misery. Reaching back to 2003, they have 12 seasons with five or fewer wins. They have only two seasons with double-digit wins since 1989. Enter…...

Mike Evans caught eight passes for 190 yards and three scores in Week 3, leading the wide receiver position with 45 fantasy points. Keenan Allen wasn’t far behind with 13 receptions for 183 yards and two touchdowns. The mega-stars combined for 32 targets, but they also managed to outperform their volume. Evans ranked No. 1 in fantasy points over expectation (FPOE), while Allen finished in…...

Kyler Murray currently leads the league in passing attempts and has thrown for 657 yards. Unfortunately, he’s struggled to find the end zone through the air and has left fantasy owners disappointed with only 17 rushing yards. The rookie phenom sits at QB13 through two weeks. All that is about to change. A Frantic Pace in Passing Attempts In Kliff Kingsbury’s desert air raid, Murray…...

Shawn Siegele breaks down the most explosive wide receiver fantasy performances of Week 2, including a heroic effort from Demarcus Robinson. Blair Andrews does a great job explaining expected points and fantasy points over expectation in the Week 1 EP Report. These metrics translate volume and efficiency directly into fantasy points by looking at the expected results from opportunities that occur at a specific down,…...

Jamison Crowder led the NFL with 14 receptions in Week 1. The Jets underneath receiver was a strong buy according to our staff rankings and the top pick according to our Bounceback Candidates criteria. Shawn Siegele takes a closer look at the 2019 debuts for our bounceback wide receivers after an exciting weekend of fantasy football. In The Wrong Read, No. 46: Anatomy of a…...

Sammy Watkins exploded for 198 yards and 3 touchdowns on nine receptions in Week 1. He scored 46.8 fantasy points, 27.3 more than expected on his volume. In the WR Explosion Report, we look at the most efficient performances during opening weekend. Week 1 always features a handful of crazy results, but yesterday was one of the most exciting opening weekends ever. The elite tier…...