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Welcome to Going Deep! This weekly article will make use of charting data, advanced metrics, and other RotoViz tools — specifically the newly released Passing Game Matchup Rater — to help readers better understand the challenges facing wide receivers and tight ends in the coming week. As my process makes heavy use of the Matchup Rater, I’d highly recommend that you set aside half an hour to…...
Curtis Patrick reviews the performance of key 2023 rookie quarterbacks and tight ends and provides strategic notes for dynasty fantasy football application. Dynasty Command Center 2023: Week 4 – Rookie Synopsis Many rookies from the 2023 NFL Draft class have outperformed fantasy football expectations after just three weeks of action. Others seem to be just existing, and some are still lying dormant. Breakouts occur on different…...
One of the more underappreciated ways that Underdog best ball is different from a normal redraft league is the “points chase” scoring. There are no weekly matchups and no W/L records, only points. Total points scored matters to an extent in redraft, but it’s typically relevant on the margins as a tie breaker or similar. This makes spike weeks less impactful in redraft. All of…...
Shawn Siegele uses the RotoViz tools to find three tight end plays for Week 4. I’m filling in for our TE guru, Neil Dutton, this week. Let’s dive right into the intel from the Game Level Similarity Projections, Strength of Schedule Streamer, and NFL Player Explorer to find three options at different price levels for Week 4. 1 Trade, 1 Sleeper, and 1 Streamer with…...
Knowing when to react and when not to is crucial in fantasy football. It’s important to distinguish what is truly significant and what is not. This article aims to clarify what requires our full attention and what can be disregarded. FIVE THINGS THAT MATTER FROM WEEK 3 These items caught my attention over the weekend and are now on my radar, whether they require immediate…...
The Dallas Cowboys, D/ST1 over the first two weeks, finally met its match facing Josh Dobbs and the Arizona Cardinals. The Denver Broncos, one of the best defenses of 2022, had a 70-point nuclear bomb dropped on them courtesy of the Miami Dolphins. The Jets’ elite real-world defense has another hum drum fantasy day against a mediocre Patriots offense. There’s just no counting on anyone…...
Bjorn Yang Vaernet examines which players on the waiver wire are worth prioritizing for Week 4 and highlights others to preemptively stash. Week 3 marks the point in the waiver wire article series where the article starts to tighten up a bit. At this point in the season, the players that have surprised in terms of early-season roles have been picked up — e.g. Puka…...
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 . . . 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 experience as alarming as it will…...
The Wrong Read has had many lives — first as a reflection on insights from the RotoViz podcasts; then as a freeform 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…...
The Wrong Read has had many lives — first as a reflection on insights from the RotoViz podcasts; then as a freeform 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…...
Welcome to Going Deep! This weekly article will make use of charting data, advanced metrics, and other RotoViz tools — specifically the newly released Passing Game Matchup Rater — to help readers better understand the challenges facing wide receivers and tight ends in the coming week. As my process makes heavy use of the Matchup Rater, I’d highly recommend that you set aside half an hour to…...
RotoViz subscribers know that winning often hinges on meticulous analysis of various factors: player statistics, team dynamics, and even the whims of Mother Nature herself. Weather conditions, often overlooked, can play a pivotal role in any game’s outcome. A few of the most well-known and craziest examples include the Fog Bowl, the Tuck Rule Game, and the Ice Bowl. The NFL is unique in its willingness to embrace…...
Dan: I’m older, and I’m much less friendly to $%#@ing change. Al Swearengen: Change ain’t lookin’ for friends. Change calls the tune we dance to. — Deadwood Rest-of-season rankings felt like the appropriate frame for this week’s Zero RB Universe. Nothing distills the backward- and forward-looking elements of RB evaluation quite like having to rank the players ROS. To understand where the backfields have gone…...
The pace of play at the team level is instructive in fantasy football. The faster a team is, the more plays they will tend to run. The more plays a team tends to run, the more players on those teams tend to score. Using the RotoViz Pace Tool, we can see the tendencies of every team in these areas so far in 2023. I toggled to…...
Welcome to Going Deep! This weekly article will make use of charting data, advanced metrics, and other RotoViz tools — specifically the newly released Passing Game Matchup Rater — to help readers better understand the challenges facing wide receivers and tight ends in the coming week. As my process makes heavy use of the Matchup Rater, I’d highly recommend that you set aside half an hour…...
In this week’s Dynasty Command Center, Curtis Patrick shares major updates to his superflex dynasty rankings for RotoViz TriFlex leagues and key waivers targets. Dynasty Command Center 2023: Week 3 Dynasty Rankings Shake-Up Puka Nacua has been a trendy name for a decade. Aaron Rodgers, Nick Chubb, and J.K. Dobbins used to be players in the NFL. Kareem Hunt plays for the Browns again. I can’t believe…...
The elite defenses have been elite for fantasy over the first two weeks. Only Tyreek Hill has outscored the Dallas D/ST in PPR leagues. Last week, no running back outscored the Pittsburgh D/ST. For this series, I focus on D/STs available in at least 30% of leagues, but in every league elite defenses make it onto the waiver wire from time to time. Two of the…...
Two weeks into the 2023 NFL season and we already have a few clear candidates for the best ball MVP. They show up in redraft leagues as waiver wire headliners and late-round dart throws, but how do these studs leave their mark in Underdog’s Best Ball Mania IV? (BBM4) In this week’s BBM4 advance rate model review, we’ll identify a few late round stars and…...
Knowing when to react and when not to is crucial in fantasy football. It’s important to distinguish what is truly significant and what is not. This article aims to clarify what requires our full attention and what can be disregarded. FIVE THINGS THAT MATTER FROM WEEK 2 These items caught my attention over the weekend and are now on my radar, whether they require immediate…...
In this article we’ll explore the power of k-means clustering analysis to figure out how we could have taken down the slate the most effectively. By isolating the projected Vegas spread, game total, matchup, projected points, salary, risk, and reward, we should be able to uncover some insights to help us in the coming weeks. Week 2 of the NFL season brought us a plethora…...
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