Fantasy Football Gameday: Week 8

October 31, 2021 | Fantasy Football Gameday | 32 Comments

What's up Samhain Squad! Fresh off my week as FantasyPros' #1 ranker in the galaxy -- nay -- the universe, I'm here spending this hallowed eve with you all pretending not to be hitting the rum all day. ACKSHUALLY, Donkey Teeth should have asked Roto Wan to do this post, so we coulda called it Hallow-Wan or Roto-Ween or something performative like that. ENYWHEY. Football -- you're not watching it today because you're out with your kids trick or treating or maybe you're still childless and you're in a zombie pub crawl or you're of a particular faith that doesn't observe the banishing of evils or maybe you're welcoming evils or whatever you gotta do. You do you! Let's grab the sage and get smudging folx, we've got some invited and uninvited guests to manage this week.

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Fantasy Football Defense Slot vs. Wide Analysis – Key NFL Out Wide Matchups Week 8

October 30, 2021 | Fantasy Football Strategy | 2 Comments

by: Bobby LaMarco

The goal of this article is to find WRs to fade and buy based on how many fantasy points their opponent allows in the slot vs. out wide. In today’s article we will review the key out wide matchups for week 8. To keep up with the latest defensive trends we updated the analysis to only include the last 5 weeks.

The below chart breaks down where each team allows their fantasy points to WRs and is listed from the most to the least amount of fantasy points allowed out wide to WRs this season.

Week 8 Injury Report: Halloween Horror Show

October 30, 2021 | Fantasy Football Strategy | 4 Comments

by: Skorish

I was working in the lab, late one night. When my eyes beheld an eerie sight. For my monster on his slab began to rise and suddenly to my surprise... He did the Mash. The Monster Mash.

Just take these wise words in for a moment. Breathe them in. The monster... he did the mash. And don't we all do the mash sometimes, much to the chagrin and sometimes excitement to our contemporaries? Yes, even sometimes it will truly be a "graveyard smash".

What was this section about? Oh uh Halloween injury report. Right. There was a thread here but I got carried away in the poetry of Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt Kickers (Side note: Here's a great TV performance of Bobby Pickett doing the Monster Mash, a real masterclass in making really weird faces and being a weirdo).

The teams who will have some extra trick-or-treating time on bye this week are the Ravens and the Raiders. See ya next week!

Let's get into this week's horror show!

Defense Slot vs. Wide Analysis – Key Slot Matchups Week 8

October 29, 2021 | Fantasy Football Strategy | 1 Comment

by: Bobby LaMarco

The goal of this article is to find wide receivers to fade and buy based on how many fantasy points their opponent allows in the slot vs. out wide. In today’s article we will review the key slot matchups for week 8. To stay hip and keep up with the latest trends we updated the analysis to only include the last 5 weeks. The below chart breaks down where each team allows their fantasy points to wide receivers and is listed from the most to the least amount of fantasy points allowed to the slot this season.

RazzBowl Update: Week 8

October 29, 2021 | RazzBowl | 2 Comments

by: Steve Paulo

With just three weeks of games -- and two FAAB runs -- left until the first Cutline, the competition is heating up in the 2021 RazzBowl! How does the Top Ten look after last week's bye-ridden slate? Who blew the last of their FAAB without a runner-up bid? Who flew up the standings, and who dropped like a rock? All this and more is waiting for you inside! So pop the cork on a little frizzante arneis and join me as we explore the current state of RazzBowl 3!

Cardinals Get the Rodgers Rate, Suffer First Loss to Packers

October 29, 2021 | Fantasy Football Strategy | 3 Comments

by: JB Barry

The story leading into this game was Green Bay being without their top wide receivers in Davante Adams and Allen Lazard who are both on the reserve/Covid list. The narrative was that there would be no way they could beat the undefeated Arizona Cardinals without their weapons. The moral of the story ended up being never count out Aaron Rodgers. Even without his best receiving weapons, Rodgers was able to battle the whole game, make the plays when he needed to, and pull out the upset victory for the Packers.

Sortable Rest of Season Rankings for 2021 Fantasy Football: Week 8

October 28, 2021 | Rest of Season Rankings | 20 Comments

by: Donkey Teeth

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*Buy, Sell, Holds released by Anime Donkey prior to week 7—Amine Donkey says ignore the Miles Sanders buy due to injury*

"But Donkey Teeth, didn't you just provide us with very in-depth and meticulously curated positional rest of season rankings for 2021 fantasy football, week 7, only two days ago?" Why yes, dear reader, and thank you for noticing. This is not an error, nor an oversight. It was all very carefully thought out during my recent peyote ceremony with some local natives. While I do get the positional rest of season rankings to the press promptly each and every Tuesday, prior to waivers and FAAB, I also feel it's important to provide more context later in the week to assist in trade negotiations and other important roster decisions. If you desperately need a running back and are rostering all of Keenan Allen, D.J. Moore and Diontae Johnson then my positional breakdown doesn't help you to construct the perfectly reasonable trade offer for Darrell Henderson, James Robinson or Joe Mixon. Now we also have the overall rankings table below to view positional valuations relative to other positions, while still having the option to sort by individual positions. The best of both worlds, which I tasted during that peyote trip. And over the past two days, I've also taken more time to refine these rankings after digesting more of the week one action and listening to some very valuable community feedback from you intelligent readers. The positional rankings from earlier in the week also delve a bit deeper into the rankings compared to this overall top 150 provided below. Anyway, here's my sortable rest of season rankings for half PPR 2021 fantasy football:

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Air Yards Report, Week 7: A Hollywood Blockbuster

October 28, 2021 | Air Yards Report | 2 Comments

by: CableBoxScore

Air Yards are the Gordon Ramsey of fantasy receiving stats. They tell us exactly what was right and clearly what was wrong with how a receiver performed in a given week. Often, it’s not easy to hear. But you as a fantasy manager need to pay attention to the under-the-hood numbers from your receivers instead of just blindly trusting the box score results, you donkey.

Each week, this column will dissect air yards for actionable info in the weeks to come. For Week 8, we will do a quick analysis of the list of the 65 wide receivers who finished last week with at least 30 air yards.

Snap To It: Week 7 Snap Count Review

October 28, 2021 | Snap Counts | 3 Comments

by: B_Don

Get Up, Get On Up

In his first action with the Cardinals, Zach Ertz had a 49% snap rate.
Cordarrelle Patterson's snap rate continues to climb with a season high 73%.
Rashod Bateman took the 2nd most snaps for the Ravens at WR with 63%.
Tommy Tremble has back to back weeks at over a 50% snap rate.
Khalil Herbert saw 77% of the snaps compared to Damien Williams 17%. If you have to start a Bears RB, it's Khalil Herbert.
Without Nick Chubb or Kareem Hunt, D'Ernest Johnson saw 69% of snaps. Unfortunately, with Nick Chubb likely back this week, it was a short run for D'Ernest as the primary back in Cleveland.
Kalif Raymond has lead the Lions in WR snap count the last 2 weeks.
For the first time all season, Jonathan Taylor had 70% of the snaps for the Colts.
Van Jefferson saw a season high 95% snap rate in week 7.
Michael Carter had a season high 73% snap rate this week! FWIW, he's the RB1 for the J-E-T-S.
Dallas Goedert, 94% snap rate. O yeah, baby!

Fantasy Football Podcast: Airport T-Shirt, “I Survived Vegas And Bye-mageddon”

October 28, 2021 | Fantasy Football Strategy |

by: B_Don

B_Don is back from Vegas and he brought in JB Barry to fill in while DT is stuck out there paying debts off to the Vegas cashiers. I wonder what is harder, the recovery after 4 days in Vegas or surviving Bye-mageddon?

We run through positions starting with the signal callers. We talk about where we are on Tua for the rest of the season. Then, we talk about who currently falls into our QB5 spot in dynasty. On a much shorter timeline, we talk about what we're doing with Aaron Rodgers this week sans Davante Adams and Allen Lazard.

We move on to RBs with some of the more intriguing time split situations Elijah Mitchell, Damien Harris, Kenneth Gainwell, and Myles Gaskin. We wrap up the show with some TE talk where we discuss the former Eagles duo of Dallas Goedert and Zach Ertz. Finally, we wrap up with a discussion about Mike Gesicki and what his value looks like over the ROS.

Week 8 Fantasy Football Primer

October 28, 2021 | Fantasy Football Strategy | 22 Comments

by: everywhereblair

How did the Bye-mageddon go for everybody? Or was it more of a Bye-pocalypse? Did you support the Bye-din Administration? Or did you get a bit Bye-curious and start changing up your roster? Maybe you finally addressed that Bye-polar condition you have. ENYWHEY (I ran out of Bye-related jokes). The average fantasy footballer (Hi Grey's mom!) is nearing the playoff stretch already. How weird is that? Didn't we just start the season? Some of those big leagues have playoffs starting in week 12. And as we all know, the most important league in the world -- the RazzBowl -- has that week 9 cutline. Lemme check if I'm going to pass go and collect $200...hmmm, gonna be close. My risky strategy to draft the 49ers stack (Kittle, Samuel, Aiyuk, and Lance) did not pay off. So my RazzBowl effort may be closing here soon, but I've got a bit of good news after the jump! Join me to celebrate!

Target Report: Week 8

October 27, 2021 | Fantasy Football Strategy | 23 Comments

by: Nic Romero

Taking inventory of target share (TS) and snap share (SS) data is a critical tool to help with start-sit decisions, and provide a framework for buy-low/sell-high trade candidates. Every Wednesday the Target Report will highlight key TS/SS data and takeaways from the weekend. Success in fantasy football is built around opportunity, especially consistent opportunity. Don’t get caught up only chasing fantasy points. Peyton Manning focused more on what happened between endzones versus what transpired on the scoreboard. It is important not to overreact to a poor fantasy outing when the usage is still there. Or overreact to a fantasy explosion for a player that barely found the field or was barely targeted in the game. Trust the data and trust the process…