Chef’s Miss: Monday Night Football Recap

November 30, 2021 | Fantasy Football Strategy | 9 Comments

Deep in the nacho cheese-smelling depths of NFL Headquarters somewhere under the Mojave Desert, one of the expert schedulers thought, "Russell Wilson vs Ryan Fitzpatrick...the Chef versus the Magician in Prime Time!" And then 2 months later Fitzmagic is benched for an undrafted QB who wasn't in the league for two years...that's Taylor Heinicke bee-tee-dubya. OK, the Magic Man is dealing with a messed-up hip, but it's tough to argue that his NFL career isn't over. Meanwhile, Russell Wilson broke a finger and the resulting surgery took him out of commission for a month. When he returned to action, Gordon Ramsey would have kicked him out of the kitchen immediately. In the two games since returning to the field, Wilson had completed a combined 51% of his passes with no TDs and 2 INT. With so many fantasy teams staring down the playoffs and one of the top quarterbacks failing, did we see a resurgence of Russ' skills? Let's check in to see how Monday Night Football went.

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Donkey On Waivers: Week 13

November 30, 2021 | Waiver Wire | 22 Comments

by: Donkey Teeth

You've just brewed your Tuesday morning honey cappuccino and sat down at the computer to peruse your favorite article of the week: Wright On Waivers. The Joey Wright always knows the exact words needed to brighten your Tuesday mornings, he's the golden boy. But wait! Donkey On Waivers?! What is this bastardization of fantasy football content! The lack of alliteration in the title is concerning, to say the least. I know this is traumatic. Let me apologize in advance, there's no possible way for me to adequately fill The Joey's Shaq-like shoes. But The Joey is nursing a house full of sick women and children—don't worry, he's assured me it's not COVID—so in comes the B-team (Donkey Teeth). If you're lucky The Joey may make a guest appearance later in the week covering the Buy/Sell column.

The Joey's goal was to keep this simple with the waiver wire recommendations in terms of layout. He's demanded that I include player, team, roster percentage, free-agent acquisition budget (FAAB) dollar amount (in percentage) I would use on the player, and of course a little background on why the player is suggested. The players will be listed by position in order of priority. The threshold The Joey tells me to work with is generally less than 50% rostered in leagues. Anyway, here's some players to consider adding for fantasy football week 13:

From Layoff to Playoffs: Leonard Fournette and Week 12 Fantasy Football

November 29, 2021 | Fantasy Football Strategy | 1 Comment

by: everywhereblair

After Jonathan Taylor made me do the TD stutter last week, I get to do another 4 T-Banger for Leonard Fournette. Let's do a montage! [cue wavy lines and St. Elmo's Fire starts playing] Last year, Leonard Fournette was going to be the RB1 on the Jacksonville Jaguars, and right before the regular season, the Jags dumped him for...nothing. The guy who had been the face of the team in 2019...and being the face of the Jags isn't saying much...but the guy who was the offense for the lackluster 2019 Jags was without a job in 2020. He got picked up by the Tampa Bay Buccanneers, a team that was lush with running backs. Like, you couldn't wave a covid stick in that training room without hitting Ronald Jones, LeSean McCoy, or Dare Ogunbowale. Lenny jumped in with the team, took some time to buy into the system, and by the 2020 Super Bowl run, he had found his footing. Fast forward to 2021 [record scratch] -- Lenny's stepping in when The Goat doesn't have his A-Game. Tom Brady was merely mortal this week with 226 yards in the air, while Lenny went for 100 on the ground and 3 TDs and another 7 catches for 31 yards and a TD. Not bad for a guy that was taken as your RB2 or FLEX in draft season this year, right?

Let's see who else made the news for Week 12 Fantasy Football:

Fantasy Football Gameday: Week 12

November 28, 2021 | 2021 Fantasy Football | 49 Comments

by: everywhereblair

Are we all hydrated from post-turkey shenanigans? Are you ready to run headfirst into your fantasy football Sunday with nothing more than your dual-chambered drinking hat? Make sure you’ve got some Fanta loaded up and cross your fingers that you’ll still be in the playoff race come Week 13. Let’s see if we can’t help you stay alive (commence the disco dancing).

Fantasy Football Defense Slot vs. Wide Analysis – Key NFL Out Wide Matchups Week 12

November 27, 2021 | Fantasy Football Strategy |

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 12. 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 over the past 5 weeks.

Week 12 Injury Report: Stuffed

November 27, 2021 | Fantasy Football Strategy |

by: Skorish

Good Afternoon Turkeys and Turkettes. We're back for another riveting injury report after a short bye last week. I hope you're satiated on some delicious food and at least one decent Thursday game. Let's take a look at our slate for Sunday and the poor fellows who won't be attending.

Fantasy Football Defense Slot vs. Wide Analysis – Key NFL Slot Matchups Week 12

November 26, 2021 | Fantasy Football Strategy | 1 Comment

by: Bobby LaMarco

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*Buy, Sell, Hold video was released by Anime Donkey prior to week 11*

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 slot matchups for week 12. To 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 WRs and is listed from the most to the least amount of fantasy points allowed to the slot over the past 5 weeks.

Bread, Turkey and Apple Pie: Thanksgiving Football Recap

November 26, 2021 | Fantasy Football Strategy |

by: JB Barry

On behalf of all of us at Razzball, let me start by wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving. Hopefully you enjoyed the day filled with family, food, and football. As it has been since 2006, we got 6 games on Thanksgiving including the traditional Cowboys and Lions games. The NFL laid these games out perfectly for us as we got a boring bread and butter appetizer game between Detroit and Chicago to kick off the day. After that, we were treated to the main course which was a Dallas and Las Vegas game that had an exciting second half and even went into overtime. The Thanksgiving slate finished with a sloppy pie a la mode game between Buffalo and New Orleans. Let's recap the appetizer, main course, and dessert games.

Week 12 Fantasy Football Primer

November 25, 2021 | Fantasy Football Strategy | 23 Comments

by: everywhereblair

What’s up Turkey Day fans? Hopefully you’re enjoying a ridiculous amount of food and libations in a safe place with people you enjoy today. It’s holiday fantasy football and I’ve been around the community long enough to know it’s just us degenerates sitting at the table playing 500. Did you keep score? Nah, me neither. Pour another libation and turn the TV on loud, it’s going to be a long day. Let’s see if we can’t save our fantasy football teams while we’re at it.

Weekly Rankings for 2021 Fantasy Football: Week 12

November 24, 2021 | Weekly Rankings | 20 Comments

by: Donkey Teeth

*This Buy, Sell, Hold video was released by Anime Donkey prior to week 11*

Each week I'll be spending countless hours flipping coins in order to determine an order for my weekly rankings which will be published bright and early each Wednesday morning. It's an elaborate round-robin coinflipping system for each position. Wide receivers alone take me a full Monday worth of coin flips. And I'm currently in the process of filing for workers comp due to carpal tunnel. But it's well worth it, knowing that you, the loyal Razzball reader, appreciate my pain and sweat. Just so you know you can trust me, here's how my coin flipping system stacked up against all of the other 149 industry analysts competing against me in the 2020 Fantasy Pros Weekly Ranking Competition:

Anyway, here's my week 12 rankings for half PPR 2021 fantasy football that will be frequently updated by coin flip up until kickoff:

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Fantasy Football Podcast: What’s Pie Without Coolwhip?

November 24, 2021 | Fantasy Football Podcast |

by: B_Don

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you Razzball readers and podcast listeners. With Donkey Teeth off doing who knows what, it felt appropriate to bring in Razzball contest extraordinaire, Coolwhip (@CoolwhipRB) to top off the Thanksgiving pod. Fresh off his top 10 finish in the 1st week of the RazzBowl playoffs, we discuss a little bit of his roster and how he built for the RazzBowl and RazzSlam. Before getting into all the football happenings, we answer the biggest question of the week, what is our 1.01 of Thanksgiving food?

We talk about some players returning from injury, Saquon Barkley and Miles Sanders among them. We discuss the big days from Jonathan Taylor and Austin Ekeler, and who could possibly give JT a run for his #1 spot ROS. A couple of QBs had less than stellar weeks. Coolwhip and I give you our thoughts on starting Dak and Mahomes after duds this week. Did you think 2021 would be so weird that Cam Newton would be a more trustworthy start than Russell Wilson?

Rest of Season Rankings for 2021 Fantasy Football: Week 12

November 23, 2021 | Rest of Season Rankings | 2 Comments

by: Donkey Teeth

Tuesdays at Razzball Fantasy Football are going to be "lit," as the kids say. Although I'm not sure if the kids put it in quotation marks, I'll have to check in with VH1 on that. Regardless, we have the one and only The Joey Wright leading off every Tuesday morning with his in-depth waiver wire advice column. Then Blair (or JB!) spins his MNF narrative with an eloquent Monday Night Football recap and Paul Blake shares some deep league thoughts. Finally, I'll bring it up the rear with my rest of season rankings broken down by position. Reminder, these rest of season rankings are only a very rough guideline to be used for trade formulation and other roster decisions. These are geared toward half PPR formats and should be adjusted accordingly for your particular league settings. Anyway, here's the updated positional rankings for the rest of the half PPR 2021 fantasy football season:

*Note: Sortable rest of season rankings will be published on Thursday afternoons. Until then, check out Rudy's sortable rest of season rankings and projections. Also, don't forget to purchase our tools subscription (we have a FREE 3-day trial!!!) for detailed weekly projections, snap counts and target share data. You won't regret it!