The Stats Machine, Week 7: Re-Staffing

October 23, 2015 | 2015 Buy/Sell, 2015 Fantasy Football | 34 Comments

Last week. The Stats Machine had a chance to rest its algorithms and recharge its data structures. This week, it's ready to pinpoint last week's top performances. Looking back is always easier than looking ahead, but it's important that when looking back, to ensure we are examining the right stats. The Stats Machine does that for us. Let's see what it saw last week.

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FanDuel, Week 7: Gurley Power

by: Zach

This week, like always featured many good players, many shockingly good players, some busts, Eddie Lacy, and Philip Rivers. Good job to those DFS players out there who picked players like Matthew Stafford, DeAndre Hopkins, Chris Ivory, etc. If you did, congratulations, and if you didn't, that's okay. I didn't either. Let's review. So for the first time ever, Razzball had a $5-Entry tournament, where ksmily06 took down the Top Prize, which was $60 and a ticket to the Week 7 Sunday Million tournament. Congrats to you sir/ma'am. Please, if you have the time, I'd like to learn from your ways, and how to be successful at Daily Fantasy Football. However, with that being said, I will finally enter this Week's Razzball's Week 7 Fantasy Football League, so bring it Jay, Razzball Writers and Viewers! Zach (or zachrob) will try to take down the top prize. Let's see what ya got!

When Were the 49ers Supposed to Show Up?

October 23, 2015 | 2015 Fantasy Football, Fantasy Football Daily Notes | 112 Comments

by: Jay

This was the only game highlight worth showcasing. Seriously.

I could have watched Fear Factor re-runs and come away with the same general feelings that I left with at the end of this game. In true Thursday Night Football fashion, I wasn't quite sure what I was watching, and at what approximate time the 49ers actually showed up. I'm pretty sure it was around the third quarter, but my memory of that moment is fuzzy at best, and they must have left quickly thereafter. Maybe they were never there to begin with? (Not that it would have made any difference.) I think it's fair to say that the Seahawks problem still exist, but lucky for them, teams like the 49ers exist to allow a reprieve comparable to a bye week and the almighty sports term "momentum" to be built. Now, that won't solve Seattle's long-term problem of their away jerseys looking like they accidentally washed them with their home jersey's, but a win here is a start. And look, Jim Tomsula may not be the best rookie coach out there, but I swear to God, he did an absolute fantastic job cleaning my windshield the other day... (And by the way, that was three Pearl Jam songs CBS played last night, for those keeping score at home.) Join me and your fellow readers in a special Razzball-only Contest! Buy-in is just $5.00 and the top-12 finishers in a 55-team league are all part of the prize pool! Sign up here! Want to win a Razzball T-Shirt? Try out our new Fantasy Football Team Name Generator and post your favorite below in the comment section. We'll select a random winner next Thursday!

Thursday Night Football, Week 7: Seahawks vs. 49ers

October 22, 2015 | 2015 Fantasy Football, 2015 GameDay Notes | 23 Comments

by: Jay

It's been well documented that the dumpster fire the 49ers transformed themselves into this offseason has been a resounding success and ahead of schedule thus far, six games into the regular season. And by success, I mean the fire has gotten bigger, and the dumpster has stayed the same size. In fact, the only redeeming quality at this point is the fact that Jim Tomsula looks to be about as batsh*t crazy as Jim Harbaugh was when being physically emotive. Is it enough to keep the 49ers afloat this season? Of course not, but it certainly improves their watchability. Meanwhile, schadenfreude is in full bloom for the Seattle Seahawks as they sit a woeful 2-4 and are battling the aforementioned ~~dumpster fires~~ 49ers for last place in a division that usually has the Cardinals and Rams taking carry of the NFC West basement. That fact right there makes this game worthy of my attention, even if it is Thursday Night Football. Get your recovery water folks, this should be a good one! Rankings have been updated for tonight's game and can be found here.

The Injury Report, Week 7: Jeremy Maclin and the Concussion Conundrum

October 22, 2015 | 2015 Fantasy Football, 2015 Injury Report | 26 Comments

by: RotoLance

Jeremy Maclin (concussion) missed practice on Wednesday. Occasionally you see a player suffer a concussion on Sunday and return to practice by Wednesday. At another extreme, you have players that miss several weeks with a concussion, something that seems to happen to players with a concussion history. To my knowledge, Maclin does not have a history of suffering concussions, but I suspect he'll miss this week. I'm thinking it's a one or two week injury, but with the Chiefs having their bye in week 9 expect him back no later than Week 10.

The Max Factor: Old Man Palmer

October 22, 2015 | 2015 Buy/Sell, 2015 Fantasy Football | 6 Comments

by: Max

I am BACK! I apologize for my absence last week, as I had some personal issues come up. PLEASE FORGIVE ME. Tehol would. Man, the Cardinals looked so good then they go ahead and lose to the Rams and Roethlisberger-less steelers. I was hoping they could give the Packers a run; lets face it, the Falcons and Panthers are pretenders. They are the Broncos of the NFC. I see the Pats, Bengals, Packers, and healthy Steelers as the only real contendersn. The Cards and Seahawks always have a sneaky chance if they can get it right. Today we’ll talking about the Cardinals offense! I’m sure you could have guessed that. But first, let’s look at how extremely accurate I was at predicting the Post Ben injury Steelers...

IDP Rankings, Week 7: Snap Back To Reality

October 22, 2015 | 2015 Fantasy Football, 2015 IDP Rankings, 2015 IDP Report | 19 Comments

by: Kevin Kumpf

Period	Accuracy	Rank	High	Low	Percentile
Week 6	62.6%	2 out of 21	65.2%	26.9%	Top 10%
2015	58.5%	3 out of 20	60.4%	50.0%	Top 15%

By all accounts this has been a weird year for Fantasy Football. On the offensive side of the ball, the combination of high profile injuries and disappointments, as well as the Devonta Freeman Experience, have pre-draft rankings looking like shots in the dark at best. In the IDP world, we had our share of surprises over the first five weeks as well. Some of the unexpected results so far will hold true through the season, but we finally saw some positive regression in Week 6, and that was most evident in Miami. I'll cover the Ndamukong Suh situation at a different time, but Cameron Wake and Olivier Vernon were the stories of the week to me. Prior to playing Tennessee, these two preseason DL1s had put up a total of 5 tackles, with only one coming from Wake. In one game, they flipped the script and put up a whopping 8 tackles and 5 sacks between them. This is obviously great news for those who held on for that terrible first month, but if for some reason either of these guys were dropped, pick them up immediately. The same goes for Cameron Jordan, who wasn't nearly as disappointing as the Miami duo, but finally exploded with 6 tackles, 3 sacks, and a forced fumble that he recovered. I say it every year, but it bares repeating: Don't panic if a highly drafted IDP isn't producing in the first few weeks (especially a DL). You drafted them for a reason, and unless there is significant injury, your patience will likely pay off.

Rankings, Week 7: Unless You’ve Got Power!

October 22, 2015 | 2015 Fantasy Football, 2015 Weekly Rankings | 165 Comments

by: Jay

Period	Accuracy	Rank	High	Low	Percentile
Week 6	54.0%	84 out of 131	65.2%	45.7%	Top 65%
Week 5	54.4%	37 out of 130	59.7%	41.9%	Top 30%
Week 4	56.4%	12 out of 135	59.9%	41.1%	Top 10%
Week 3	59.1%	18 out of 134	65.0%	42.1%	Top 15%
Week 2	53.4%	85 out of 135	65.2%	46.2%	Top 65%
Week 1	56.8%	54 out of 137	62.8%	46.3%	Top 40%
2015	55.7%	28 out of 125	59.1%	47.9%	Top 25%
2014	58.1%	31 out of 125	60.7%	50.6%	Top 25%

Everyone got to have so much fun with Back to the Future yesterday, but since it was my day off on the site, I couldn't add to the discussion. And now that I'm here, I really have nothing to say that hasn't been said by everyone else. I loved the movies. I guess that's my official comment. So, I had something to add, but it was a really short comment (she's never said that, I swear), and... it really has nothing to do with Fantasy Football. Regardless, the rankings were rough for everyone last week, with the top-20 "experts", including yours truly, getting discombobulated. I'd say it was a one week outlier, so let's see how this batch turns out. Also, as we went over the Future of Razzball last week, tying into the theme of today's post, we've completely revamped our Fantasy Football Team Name Generator, and released it to the masses. That's you. You're the mass. And a quite good looking mass if I don't say so myself. Not only do we have a new Razzball Contest going on this week (join here!), but I'd like to create another fun event for you, the readers. I'll be awarding a random commenter their choice of a Razzball T-Shirt simply by testing the new generator (which can be found here) and submitting your favorite team names in the comment section of any post here on Razzball Football up to next Tuesday. I'll announce the winner during our Week 8 Rankings post. So let's see those crazy names! And now, your Week 7 Rankings...

Who Are These Guys?, Week 7: Keep Diggs-ing Watson

October 21, 2015 | 2015 Fantasy Football, 2015 Roster Strategy | 46 Comments

by: malamoney

Last week The Dillon Panthers, my team in the Razzball Writers League, scored 168.64 points, making quick work of Jay's team and elevating me to an astounding 6-0 record. Out of all the RCL's, there are currently only thirteen undefeated teams remaining. Yours truly is fired up to be a member of that list and will look to keep rolling this week. But before we step ahead into the future, let's jump in our DeLorean DMC-12 and go back in time to last weekend and see what lineup would have been strong enough to have knocked me out of the ranks of the unbeaten.

When asked for a list of players that would have outscored 168.64 points, Biff Tannen opened his Gray's Sports Almanac and muttered, "How about these buttheads" as he rattled off the following list of players. "Together they combined for 173.81 points. Now why don't you make like a tree and get out of here."

Smokey Says, Week 7: Don’t Let Wilson Get Cast Away

October 21, 2015 | 2015 Buy/Sell, 2015 Fantasy Football | 26 Comments

by: Smokey

So, I always take on the week's views of who I think you should roster that not everyone else is noticing, or really not paying attention to. The funniest thing is that my posts, for the past four weeks, which start on Wednesday and then echo to the following week, have been right on. Whatever it's "on", well, it can be whatever you so desire. They have been so on that I will say that I am a pioneer of sorts, minus the Sacajawea guide and the talks of irrational bowel syndrome from eating undetermined berries. I am normally not one to gloat or blow my own anything, but I just wanted to point out that the people who aren't reading my post on a weekly basis are basically running to the wire the following week because the guy I told them to pick up just huffed and puffed and blew there fantasy world down. So this week, we are praying on the sick, the weak, the dizzy, and that is in the land of the best steaks I have ever encountered, Kansas City. This is where my home slice, Albert Wilson and beneficiary of this week's highlight if, and that's an if, Jeremy Maclin is still concussed. If that's the case, Wilson will play a prominent role for the Chiefs this week against the Steelers.

Disgraces and Delights, Week 7: Captain Kirk, Take Me Where No Man Has Taken Me Before

October 21, 2015 | 2015 Buy/Sell, 2015 Fantasy Football | 137 Comments

by: LT Murray IV

Greetings! There ain't no rest for the wicked, so I must push forward even while desiring nothing more than a hot bubble bath and a 500th viewing of the Paris Hilton sex tape. It's a been a long day, a long week for that matter, as the Seattle Seahawks crumbled in the fourth quarter like Nicolas Cage the last time he auditioned in front of Scorsese. Now they travel to face their former archrival, the San Francisco 49ers, and the Elder Gods have been sending me signs all week that the final result will send me into the sort of life-altering tailspin that I read about in James Frey's biography, A Million Little Pieces. You know, the one that turned out to be completely made up after he melted the hearts of Americans everywhere, letting us know that however screwed up we were, that we could overcome any obstacles in our path? Oh powerful Elders, I ask you here and now to bless me with a team I can get behind. Something to believe in to carry me through the unbearable tortures that life bestows upon us! WHYYYYYYYYYYYYY!? I am Tehol Beddict and this is Disgrace/Delight! Take heed! Join Jay and your fellow readers in a special Razzball-only Contest! Buy-in is just $5.00 and the top-12 finishers in a 55-team league are all part of the prize pool! Sign up here!

Through the Wire, Week 7: Hoyer Voyeur

October 20, 2015 | 2015 Fantasy Football, 2015 Waiver Wire | 93 Comments

by: Geoff

Dearly beloved, we're gathered here today to discuss a problem that affects us all. That problem is Peyton Manning. Let's imagine for a moment that all of you are as dumb as the author of this article, and you drafted Manning. I drafted him a lot, like all over. So before you look at me with judgmental stares, understand I'm not very smart, and I make it usual practice to kill as many brain cells as possible. So now that we've established the problem (Manning), and the reasons behind it (my lack of intellectual capacity). It's time to discuss some solutions, and how we can triage this problem. Yes, I really wanted to use "triage" in a sentence.... Let's begin by saying it's the Broncos bye week, so even if for some God forsaken reason you decide to hold onto old fuss and feathers, you're going to need a fill-in. For the rest of us rational thinking normies, we need a replacement. So begins our Wavier Wire adds for Week 7.