Welcome to Going Deep! This weekly article will make use of charting data, advanced metrics, and other RotoViz tools — specifically the 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 watch the tutorial/walkthrough and…...

Following the conclusion of Week 6, the action kept on rolling with the trades of Davante Adams and Amari Cooper on Tuesday. Both wide receivers have been staples in fantasy for the better part of the last decade, and it will be interesting to see how they acclimate to their new surroundings. Adams joins many of his old teammates from Green Bay in New York,…...

Welcome to The Wrong Read. This weekly article uses advanced team-level metrics to preview the week’s upcoming matchups. The goal is to try to understand how an upcoming matchup might play out in terms of each offense’s ability to execute their game plan. How successful will they be when trying to pass? How much will they be able to run the ball? It’s impossible to…...

A few weeks ago I asked whether Brock Bowers was already the TE1 in both redraft and dynasty. That was perhaps somewhat premature after Week 2, but the answer to both questions has since become obvious. I’m sensitive to Betteridge’s law of headlines, but at the very least my previous Bowers article provides a counterexample. After six weeks of 2024, Bowers is the TE1 in…...

Welcome to Going Deep! This weekly article will make use of charting data, advanced metrics, and other RotoViz tools — specifically the 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 watch the tutorial/walkthrough and…...

Shawn Siegele breaks down the Zero RB Universe with trade ideas, deep stashes, start/sit thoughts, and much more as we head toward Week 7 of the 2024 fantasy football season. The Zero RB Universe is about understanding the position well enough to make those start/sit decisions easier, to help you win dynasty trades, to stay two steps out in front of your league with look-ahead…...

Week 7 is a tricky one. The best matchups aren’t without their red flags, and most of the best plays have their upside thoroughly baked in in daily fantasy. But all isn’t lost! The worst OPRK offenses are all available in most leagues, and we have a string of exploitable multiweek windows coming up for several top D/STs. The brutal injury to Aidan Hutchinson along with…...

And so here we are, Week 7 of the 2024 season. Week 6 saw 12 tight ends all hit double-digit PPR points, with another two players perched dangerously close with 9.9 and 9.6, respectively. What a time to be alive. Stats do not include players from Monday Night Football But that was the past. All we are concerned with here is the future. Here are…...

Week 6 of the 2024 NFL season was the poster child for Zero-RB builds, as a ton of backup RBs were not only were given a chance to see the field, but also capitalized on their opportunities in some huge ways. Some of the names we expected, while others came out of nowhere to put up big-time fantasy performances. Team contexts will surely dictate how…...

“Look, you wanna know the truth? I don’t really care about the stats or the cup or the trophy or anything like that. In fact even the games aren’t that important to me. What matters to me is the perfect throw, making the perfect catch, the perfect step and block. Perfection. That’s what it’s about. It’s those moments. When you can feel the perfection of…...

In his Wrong Read series, Blair Andrews labeled Week 6 “Rookie QB Week,” and with good reason. With five rookie signal callers set to start for their teams, including two making their first starts, both fantasy and reality fans would be heavily critiquing each player’s performance. When the dust settled, it was clear which QBs are on their way to stardom, and which are still works in…...

Welcome to The Wrong Read. This weekly article uses advanced team-level metrics to preview the week’s upcoming matchups. The goal is to try to understand how an upcoming matchup might play out in terms of each offense’s ability to execute their game plan. How successful will they be when trying to pass? How much will they be able to run the ball? It’s impossible to…...

Welcome to Going Deep! This weekly article will make use of charting data, advanced metrics, and other RotoViz tools — specifically the 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 watch the tutorial/walkthrough and…...

Welcome to The Wrong Read. This weekly article uses advanced team-level metrics to preview the week’s upcoming matchups. The goal is to try to understand how an upcoming matchup might play out in terms of each offense’s ability to execute their game plan. How successful will they be when trying to pass? How much will they be able to run the ball? It’s impossible to…...

Welcome to Going Deep! This weekly article will make use of charting data, advanced metrics, and other RotoViz tools — specifically the 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 watch the tutorial/walkthrough and…...

I’m not superstitious, but I am a little stitious. — Michael Scott We have all heard of the “Madden Curse,” but the “WR Advanced Stats Curse” may be just as real for those who subscribe to such theories. The only player featured as the cover boy for the article this year who has not been injured the following week has been Jameson Williams. (If Brandon…...

Welcome to The Wrong Read. This weekly article uses advanced team-level metrics to preview the week’s upcoming matchups. The goal is to try to understand how an upcoming matchup might play out in terms of each offense’s ability to execute their game plan. How successful will they be when trying to pass? How much will they be able to run the ball? It’s impossible to…...

Shawn Siegele breaks down the Zero RB Universe with trade ideas, deep stashes, start/sit thoughts, and much more as we head toward Week 6 of the 2024 fantasy football season. The Zero RB Universe covers the entire RB landscape, not just a single type of build. This isn’t a waiver wire piece. Kevin Szafraniec has you covered for that. We’re trying to understand the RB position…...

It’s a great week for streaming low-owned D/STs. The kind of week that makes us all pat ourselves on the back for not having wasted draft capital on the Jets’ admittedly fantastic secondary. We’re also hitting that point in the season where we have enough information to aim for defenses that have not just one good upcoming matchup, but several in a row. Defenses like…...

Garrett Wilson finished Week 5 with 22 targets. Since 2000, a wide receiver has had that many targets in a game only seven previous times. Season Week Player Targets reFPOE PPR 2024 5 Garrett Wilson 22 -9.8 29.1 2015 9 Antonio Brown 23 8.7 47.6 2015 4 DeAndre Hopkins 22 -11.4 24.7 2013 7 Vincent Jackson 22 -2.2 35.8 2010 1 Roddy White 23 -13.8…...