With all the prize money up for grabs in BBMIV on Underdog, we are searching for the best ways to optimize both our individual roster construction and our portfolio constrution. One aspect of portfolio construction that goes overlooked is adjusting for the number of teams you are drafting. I will be nowhere near the 150-entry limit when the tournament finally fills. If you are drafting […]

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Shawn Siegele dives deep into the evidence and breaks out the full RotoViz toolkit to help you find a receiver who profiles as the 2023 version of DeVonta Smith. In Part 1 of this series, I framed the project this way: You only have so many early-round selections. Players on the same NFL team are frequently dealing with the same team-level risks. That leads to […]

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RotoViz was a pioneer of the idea of structural drafting, often in tandem with the idea that the flex wins championships and that fantasy football drafts are a race to fill the flex. But we’ve always paired structural drafting with evidence-based player-level research. Success in fantasy is not as simple as drafting the right number of RBs or drafting a QB in the right round, […]

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Finding elite WR talents even just a few rounds later in FFPC fundamentally changes how we’re able to build our teams. After winning the FFPC’s $125 Best Ball tournament in 2021, Conor O’Driscoll used the RV Roster Construction Explorer to show just how important combining winning structures is in that particular format. It is possible to get six elite WRs in BBMIV. But it often […]

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Shawn Siegele examines quarterback tactics in the FFPC Superflex tournament and explains why a tournament-winning approach is still alive and well. The FFPC Best Ball Superflex tournament has always been one of my favorite contests to participate in and write about in the workshop. The most fun I had writing a piece last year may have been How the RotoViz Tools Fueled a Team to […]

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RotoViz has long been synonymous with Zero RB. But never before this season has it been tougher to hit Shawn Siegele’s preferred benchmark: to draft six wide receivers with realistic top-15 upside. The WR rush in Underdog’s BBMIV contest is so pronounced that drafters are passing on three-down running backs to stay ahead of the avalanche. Just a few years ago Rachaad White would have […]

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Does the Wide Receiver Avalanche have you on the defensive in summer best ball drafts? Shawn Siegele breaks down his favorite deep sleeper options at receiver. The 2023 fantasy landscape features brutally WR-heavy tournament drafts. Those drafts become even more aggressive at WR when you look at the toughest rooms. Check out an OT listener league draft or a Best Ball Banana Stand contest. In […]

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In 2023 wide receivers are going earlier than ever before. This, paired with elite quarterbacks going earlier than ever has presented a unique set of challenges for drafters this season. It’s common for 15 or more WRs to go in the first two rounds of drafts. The WRs in the first two rounds are rock solid, but immediately after that, we can poke holes in […]

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Could 2022’s top WR breakout candidate and the best Zero RB option come from the same team? Shawn Siegele debates the best way to play a controversial offense. When RotoViz subscribers talk about crafting a roster, they’re usually thinking about a mix of structural drafting at the squad level and contingency-based drafting at the player level. They’re building their rosters out from back to front […]

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Shawn Siegele examines the fantasy fallout from Dalvin Cook’s release and asks whether Ty Chandler or DeWayne McBride could become the 2023 league winner as Alexander Mattison disappoints. It’s been an open secret that the Minnesota Vikings would move on from Cook this summer. The former star generated 101.5 fantasy points over expectation (FPOE) across the 2019 and 2020 seasons, but that dropped into the […]

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