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MFL10 of Death: The Best and Most Controversial Picks – 15 Flag-Plant Selections from Top Experts

Shawn Siegele June 7, 2022

Shawn Siegele looks at the best and most controversial picks from Pat Thorman’s MFL10 of Death and explains how his selections fit into an overall strategy. The MFL10 of Death is always my favorite draft to analyze. It’s loaded with the top minds in fantasy football, and it occurs at a moment in the calendar where we’re still operating with partial information on many players…...

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Best Ball Tournament Workshop: Does Draft Speed Matter? Why the Fast Draft Advantage Isn’t Quite What It Seems

Michael Dubner May 31, 2022

Winning a million dollars playing best ball tournaments requires a lot of skill and also a lot of luck. There are many parts of a roster that are completely out of our control, such as our assigned draft pick, what our opponents do, player injuries, and on and on. But before we even draft, there are a few things in our control that affect our…...

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Structural Drafting and Detours for Value in the FFPC Superflex Best Ball Tournament

Shawn Siegele May 30, 2022

Shawn Siegele breaks down an FFPC Superflex Best Ball Tournament draft and explores the intersection of structure and value. The FFPC Best Ball Tournament has been one of my favorite formats to draft this offseason, and its popularity suggests a bigger tournament next year. Until then, I love the intimate 4,752-entry field and compelling $10,000 grand prize. I’ll be drafting fairly heavily in this format,…...

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Best Ball Workshop: Can We Rescue a Weird QB Build in the FFPC Superflex Tournament?

Shawn Siegele May 25, 2022

Can Shawn Siegele and Ben Gretch finish off their contrarian Superflex Best Ball build in style? Shawn breaks down Rounds 9 through 20 and further explores the strategy that could lead to a tournament championship. In Part 1, we examined the key tactics for building out your Superflex Best Ball roster in the FFPC Tournament. To add a personal flair, I used a recent Stealing…...

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Fixing Hyperfragile: Dominating with a Contrarian Approach

Conor O’Driscoll May 24, 2022

Best Ball Mania III is a 451,600-entry tournament with a 470-team Week 17 final. Because of this, finding ways to build high-upside teams that are meaningfully different from the field is of the utmost importance. Accounting for the fact that a large percentage of the prize pool is dedicated to the top few places (38% is for the top-five finishers) is a core facet of…...

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Best Ball Workshop: Early Round Picks and Contrarian Tactics in an FFPC Superflex Best Ball Tournament Draft

Shawn Siegele May 24, 2022

Shawn Siegele breaks down the early picks in an FFPC Superflex Best Ball Tournament draft and explores contrarian tactics from an unfortunate draft slot. Last year, Blair Andrews and I used the FFPC Roster Construction Explorer to win a nice little chunk of money in the Best Ball Superflex formats, and we tended to choose the prize option with a bunch of $35 credits. Those…...

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How to Inexpensively Build Uniqueness and Upside Into Your Best Ball Roster

Shawn Siegele May 20, 2022

Shawn Siegele uses the Best Ball Explorers and best ball research concepts from Michael Dubner and Blair Andrews to build a case for some unlikely options. Getting to co-manage drafts with some of the top minds in the game is one of my favorite parts of working with best ball gurus like Conor O’Driscoll, Michael Dubner, and Zachary Krueger. I’m in drafts with all of…...

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Is Bully Tight End Viable in Best Ball Mania 3?

Madison Parkhill May 19, 2022

As a former tight end, I’ve always had an affinity for using two elite tight ends. In Madden, I’m notorious among my friends for getting two elite ones, like George Kittle and Kyle Pitts, and using their combination of receiving and blocking ability to lock the defense into one personnel and smash them in a hurry-up offense. In short, I’m a full-on tight end nerd…....

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An Unusual Anchor RB Approach With Even More Upside

Conor O’Driscoll May 17, 2022

Best Ball Mania III is a 451,600-entry tournament with a 470-team Week 17 final. Because of this, finding ways to build high-upside teams that are meaningfully different from the field is of the utmost importance. Accounting for the fact that a large percentage of the prize pool is dedicated to the top few places (38% is for the top-five finishers) is a core facet of…...

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Don’t Overthink Uniqueness in a Zero RB Build

Conor O’Driscoll May 11, 2022

Best Ball Mania III is a 451,600-entry tournament with a 470-team Week 17 final. Because of this, finding ways to build high-upside teams that are meaningfully different from the field is of the utmost importance. Accounting for the fact that a large percentage of the prize pool is dedicated to the top few places (38% is for the top-five finishers) is a core facet of…...

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Drafting Early Has Its Advantages Too: Optimal Draft Month for Best Ball Tournaments

Michael Dubner May 10, 2022

Best Ball platforms are starting to release their big tournaments: Underdog’s Best Ball Mania 3 tournament, Drafters’ Million Best Ball Championship, FFPC’s Best Ball Tournament, and DraftKings will likely follow soon as well. Michael Dubner examines when we should draft our best ball teams in order to maximize our odds of finishing in first-place. There are a lot of nuances that go into winning a…...

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Why A.J Brown’s Move to Philadelphia Could Vault Him Into the First Round in Best Ball Drafts

Michael Hitchcock May 9, 2022

We are off and running into the best part of the fantasy football calendar — draft season. 2022 should be the most exciting year yet with best ball tournament prizes growing larger on FFPC and Underdog. Michael Dubner has laid out some incredible thoughts on the optimal time to draft these tournament teams. Conor O’Driscoll has presented a very simple strategy for building a unique…...

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Best Ball Tournament Workshop: Why Best Ball Mania III Hinges on the Tight End Position

Blair Andrews May 7, 2022

Blair Andrews explores the optimal tight end strategy for Best Ball Mania III and other tournaments. Are elite-TE builds still elite? Best Ball Mania III has just opened with a $10 million prize pool, including $2 million to first place, with $1 million each going to the regular season champion and the second place finisher. RotoViz has also just released our new Underdog Best Ball…...

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3 Veterans Who Won the 2022 NFL Draft, and 3 Who Were Not as Fortunate (Plus 3 to Watch Closely)

Angad Uppal May 6, 2022

Angad Uppal examines the veterans who gained the most from the 2022 NFL Draft, along with those whose value took big hits, and some other veterans to keep an eye on over the coming months. The NFL Draft has shuffled a lot of our rookie values. Now that we know landing spots, rankings are beginning to coalesce in surprising ways. Players we once thought of…...

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4 Rookie Quarterbacks Slide All the Way Out of Round 1

Conor O’Driscoll April 29, 2022

Just one quarterback was taken in the first round of the 2022 draft, which is the first time that’s happened since 2013. After writing The Rookie Quarterbacks Who Could Dominate 2022 Best Ball Leagues, it was obviously disappointing news for me. However, I do think there is some nuance to the picture and I will still be excited to the draft rookie QBs this year,…...

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Biggest Best Ball Tournament Impacts and Reactions from Round 1

Conor O’Driscoll April 29, 2022

The NFL has followed up the wildest offseason of our time with the craziest first round we’ve ever seen. Six wide receivers went in the opening stanza and even that was overshadowed by multiple NFL teams transforming their depth charts with trades involving high profile wide receivers. Today I’m looking at the WR news that changed the best-ball tournament landscape. For all of our player…...

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Allen Robinson Is Finally Out Of QB Purgatory, But Does That Make His ADP A Trap?

Michael Hitchcock April 25, 2022

With the NFL draft just a few days away, this means we are on the horizon of best-ball season. Right now, the rookies are the toast of the town, but we need to make sure we dig into these veteran players to see if their cost could present a potential value in drafts. Over the course of the next few weeks and months the discourse…...

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A Gunslinging Approach to the Rookies and Sophomores Tournament on Underdog

Shawn Siegele April 23, 2022

Shawn Siegele analyzes a draft in the Rookies and Sophomores Tournament on Underdog and explains why 2022 offers a unique opportunity. I’m having a hard time containing my enthusiasm for our upcoming Underdog tools, especially after Michael Dubner previewed them in breaking down how each team wins our staff draft and Blair Andrews used them to answer everyone’s favorite question: Does Zero RB Work in Underdog…...

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FFPC Never Too Early Tournament – Zero RB out of the 1.05

Madison Parkhill April 22, 2022

This is the second of a three-part series analyzing my entries into the FFPC Never-Too-Early best ball tournament. This time, I drafted out of the 1.05. The NTE just filled, but many of the principles and decisions will remain when the FFPC releases its next tournament, likely shortly after the NFL draft. 1.05 – The options: Cooper Kupp, Justin Jefferson, or Ja’marr Chase The debate:…...

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How Each Team Wins: Recapping the RotoViz Staff Underdog Best Ball Draft

Michael Dubner April 18, 2022

The RotoViz Staff and Friends best ball draft on Underdog just wrapped up. It was our first staff draft of the season, and there were certainly some fun twists and turns. Perhaps the most surprising move was Zero RB Founding Father Shawn Siegele not drafting a WR through five rounds. In the middle rounds, we saw RBs start to fall down draft boards with Blair Andrews…...

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