There will be weeks where the tight end position is a little better than we expect. We won’t get explosive scoring all across the board, but there’ll be a good number of fantasy performances that will make managers happy. Well, maybe not happy. But certainly, they won’t be screaming for the abolition of the position from all future fantasy leagues. Last week, between Thursday and…...

Bjorn Yang Vaernet examines which players on the waiver wire are worth prioritizing for Week 3 and highlights others to preemptively stash. It feels like every single lead RB is going down with an injury of late. Week 1 featured Austin Ekeler, Aaron Jones, and Kenneth Gainwell. The biggest name out of Week 2 is of course Nick Chubb, who suffered a nasty knee injury…...

Shawn Siegele breaks down the weekly plan, broaches the important questions in the podcast preview, and explains how subscribers can use the RotoViz tools to capitalize again in Week 3. “We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our…...

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…...

Mat Irby examines the NFL weather in Week 2 and helps you find situations where fantasy start/sits might be infuenced by field conditions. 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…...

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…...

Shawn Siegele examines the evolving running back landscape and breaks down some of the important tactical decisions in redraft and dynasty. The Zero RB Watch list will become the Zero RB Universe and be both the same and different in 2023. It’ll include enough RB peripherals from the Advanced Stat Explorer, Stealing Signals tool, SOS Streamer, Weekly Stat Explorer, NFL Pace tool, Game Splits, FFPC…...

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…...

The Week 1 avalanche of information is here. Some things we learned this week: Every Giants player can be safely dropped. Cooper Kupp has lost his starting job to Puka Nacua. Josh Allen is a lost cause and Jordan Love should go ahead and send his jacket size to the boys in Canton. Okay, maybe not. Pulling signal from the noise is a difficult task after just…...

In this weekly article, Ryan Ramsarran uses the Advanced Stat Explorer and other RotoViz tools to dive deep into wide receiver usage trends. Usage is key for making waiver wire adds, start/sit decisions, and finding the next blowup WR in DFS. We’ll use the advanced WR metrics to highlight a few buy-low options at the position each week. Welcome back to the wide receiver advanced…...

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…...

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, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Week 1 brought a torrent of victories for the…...

Yeah, I know. Week 1 was ugly across the board in fantasy football. I am drowning in an underwhelmed sea. The tight end spot was, as usual, no exception. But seriously, if Travis Kelce and Mark Andrews both miss a game, the overall picture will not be pretty. But we go again. With Week 2 fast on the horizon, I offer three names to plug…...

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 1 These items caught my attention over the weekend and are now on my radar, whether they require immediate…...

Bjorn Yang Vaernet examines which players on the waiver wire are worth prioritizing for Week 2 and highlights others to preemptively stash. Week 1 of the NFL season evoked a range of emotions ranging from sadness about J.K. Dobbins going through another major injury (torn Achilles) to joy watching the back-and-forth scoring affair between the Miami Dolphins and the Los Angeles Chargers. However, the main…...

Shawn Siegele details what the 2023 in-season will look like from a tools, articles, and podcasting perspective. With a glorious, harrowing, and occasionally desultory Week 1 mostly in the books, it’s overreaction season. Talking about Week 1 is almost as much fun as watching it play out on the gridiron (especially if you were starting players like Tua Tagovailoa, Tyler Allgeier, and Brandon Aiyuk). During…...

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…...