Our goal with the Zero RB Watch List is to help you locate RB breakouts and waiver adds before they happen, but this column isn’t just for Zero RB owners. We’re just as focused on the high-profile backs. Understanding workloads is key to making tough redraft and dynasty trades. The RotoViz Screener and NFL Stat Explorer provide a smorgasbord of data as we dive into…...

Things don’t translate perfectly from the game of real NFL football to our beloved spin-off, fantasy football. Andy Dalton rewarded fantasy owners far more than New Orleans fans last weekend by finishing fourth at the position despite throwing two pick-sixes in less than a minute of gameplay and burying the Saints’ hopes for victory. Joe Mixon continues to be a fantasy RB1 despite the fifth-worst…...

Angad Uppal uses the Strength of Schedule Streaming App and other RotoViz tools to find the top buy-low opportunities. Your leaguemates may be souring on these players, but their fantasy fortunes may be about to turn around. The app also helps us identify trendy players with difficult upcoming schedules that you can cash in on now. Through seven weeks, the 2022 NFL season has certainly…...

Welcome back to the GLSP review. In this weekly article, we’ll use the RotoViz GSLP projections to identify streaming options at the quarterback position. We’ll also look at running backs and wide receivers that make compelling cases for flex consideration. If you’re new to the site or unfamiliar with the GLSP process, please read through the link below before making use of GLSP this season. Game Level…...

Get an early start on your preparation for the upcoming week with the RotoViz Monday Review tool. Every week in 1 Big Thing, Blair Andrews uses the tool for a deep dive into an interesting and potentially actionable development from the last week of fantasy football. Travis Etienne had 19 total opportunities in Week 7, good for 18.7 total expected points, both career highs. By…...

All told, #NationalTightEndsDay was a bit of a letdown this year, wasn’t it? I mean yes, we got what we wanted out of Travis Kelce and George Kittle. But Mark Andrews did nothing. Daniel Bellinger suffered a gruesome eye injury. David Njoku suffered an injury that should see him miss weeks, not days. All told there were six TE touchdowns in Week 7, two scored…...

Bjorn Yang-Vaernet examines which players on the waiver wire are worth prioritizing for Week 8 and highlights others to stash preemptively. Fantasy football can feel like a game of attrition sometimes. I never head into a season thinking that injuries happen as frequently as they do, but each week someone important goes down. In Week 7, several fantasy-relevant players left their respective games early, including:…...

Shawn Siegele celebrates the emergence of Zero RB stars, laments the loss of 2022’s best story (and perhaps best overall player), and grapples with a zero-catch performance from Mark Andrews. Zero RB Options Continue to Roll Week 7 was a great example of the way Zero RB works to build power teams that annihilate opponents during the bye-week stretch. Michael Hitchcock and I were lucky…...

Seamus Carr brings you all the biggest storylines from Week 7, including the arrival of several young RB stars and the re-emergence of the NFL’s most powerful offenses. AFC Fireworks From The Bengals, Chiefs Last year’s AFC Championship game opponents put on exciting offensive displays, totaling 79 points and 904 passing yards between the two teams. Both teams are starting to find their offensive strides,…...

Shawn Siegele looks at Eno Benjamin’s breakout game, Christian McCaffrey’s new situation in San Francisco, and plenty more in the Week 7 edition of Zero RB Playbook. Well, that got exciting. I wrote a big chunk of the Zero RB Playbook Thursday afternoon, and then everything seemed to happen at once. RotoViz favorite Eno Benjamin blew up in Arizona’s dominant Thursday night performance, and Christian…...

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 this article will leverage a great deal of information from the Passing Game Matchup Rater (PGMR), we took a quick walkthrough…...

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 blow-up WR in DFS. Week 6 is in the books, and it was filled with some crazy upsets. The Bills-Chiefs game was as wild as expected, with Josh…...

We’re back for the Week 7 installment of running back advanced stats. Each week, I’ll use the Advanced Stats Explorer to examine the underlying metrics of notable rushers. I’m also including routes run and receiving data to provide a more complete picture of a player’s usage and skills.  Metrics like yards before and after contact, evasion rate, stuff rate, and designed gap rate tell us how a running…...

Our goal with the Zero RB Watch List is to help you locate RB breakouts and waiver adds before they happen, but this column isn’t just for Zero RB owners. We’re just as focused on the high-profile backs. Understanding workloads is key to making tough redraft and dynasty trades. The RotoViz Screener and NFL Stat Explorer provide a smorgasbord of data as we dive into…...

At this point in the NFL season we’ve had a good look at how teams want to play football, and those sample sizes get bigger every time they take the field. We’re not the only ones who have more data to go on though. Mid-season is when reactive coaching starts to make a huge difference, and no one is safe from being game-planned out of…...

Angad Uppal uses the Strength of Schedule Streaming App and other RotoViz tools to find the top buy-low opportunities. Your leaguemates may be souring on these players, but their fantasy fortunes may be about to turn around. The app also helps us identify trendy players with difficult upcoming schedules that you can cash in on now. 3 Players to Buy Tyler Allgeier When Cordarelle Patterson…...

Another week has come and gone. Week 6 of the NFL season continued to show the importance of having one of the stud tight ends on your fantasy roster. The top-10 scorers at the position included faithful troopers like Travis Kelce, George Kittle, and Zach Ertz. It also featured some surprising names, including a little-known, seldom-used Falcons TE called Kyle Pitts. “But Dutton” I hear…...

Get an early start on your preparation for the upcoming week with the RotoViz Monday Review tool. Every week in 1 Big Thing, Blair Andrews uses the tool for a deep dive into an interesting and potentially actionable development from the last week of fantasy football. I skipped last week due to an illness, but this week I’m making up for it, because the one…...

Bjorn Yang Vaernet examines which players on the waiver wire are worth prioritizing for Week 7 and highlights others to preemptively stash. Week 6 was a great reminder of why the waiver wire is so important. Here’s a list of the top RBs that were missing from each team heading into this week (and this is only Week 6): Arizona – James Conner, Darrell Williams…...

After focusing on three separate elements of the RB position in his Week 5 articles, Shawn Siegele takes stock of the receiver position six weeks into the 2022 season. Week 6 featured more fireworks at the wide receiver position, but the variety made it special. We got further confirmation from Stefon Diggs and Tyreek Hill that the 2022 season will revolve around them. Bounceback performances…...