Air Yards Primer: The Nerds Don’t Know What to do With a C-Kupp

September 9, 2021 | Air Yards Report | 2 Comments

All of us nerds in our basements writing out fantasy football stats on the back of comic books will never be satisfied, will we? It’s not enough that we have receiving yards, target share, snap counts, aDOT, RACR, and WOPR for wide receivers and tight ends. Now we have to dissect and analyze how far a football was thrown in the air no matter whether the ball was caught or not? Does that even really matter?

Well, whenever you get a stat that is as predictive and actionable as air yards, you bet your nerdy ass it matters. What in the name of Dungeons and Dragons is air yards? Glad you asked. Let’s dig in.

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Terry McLaurin: Magnum Opus

September 9, 2021 | Fantasy Football Strategy | 3 Comments

by: Gavin Faulkner

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Expectations were low for McLaurin as a third-round selection out of Ohio State. He was the definition of an outlier—poor college resumé, underwhelming analytics profile, and returned for his senior year. Furthermore; he was a 24 year-old rookie, without a registered Break Out Age. Yikes.

Guys like that aren’t supposed to succeed, but he wasted no time proving everyone wrong, posting 125 receiving yards and a touchdown in his first-ever NFL game. He should’ve had 198 yards and two touchdowns, but Case Keenum badly overthrew McLaurin on a double move after torching the poor Eagles secondary. Go figure.

He posted one of the best rookie seasons ever by a WR drafted in round three or later. Compare his numbers to the leaders in yards among WRs with similar-or-worse draft capital:

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Fantasy Football Podcast: Don’t Gamble, Use Rudy’s Projections

September 9, 2021 | Fantasy Football Podcast |

by: B_Don

Before week 1 of the season, B_Don and Donkey Teeth bring in the big gun, Razzball co-founder, Rudy Gamble. We go over some news with the Le’Veon signing, Latavius Murray getting cut, and some last minute week 1 injuries. The guys weigh in on some of the primary waiver wire targets and how they would prioritize them (none of us agree btw). Then, we move on to ask Rudy about the Razzball football tools and his weekly in-season projections. The guys ask him about Baker Mayfield and his hatred for Jameis Winston. Last, we ask Rudy to explain his Raheem Mostert love.

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FABulous Targets for Dynasty and Deep Leagues

September 9, 2021 | Deep Leagues |

by: Paul Blake

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My first deep league article seemed to help some of you with your backend roster decisions, so I offer more help here. I will try to list diverse position options for those you looking for position specific players. For this week’s edition, I have two Quarterbacks, one Runningback, two Wide Receivers, and one Tight End. These are players you may want to target in your dynasty or deep leagues:

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Week 1 Fantasy Football Primer

September 9, 2021 | 2021 Fantasy Football, Fantasy Football Strategy | 58 Comments

by: everywhereblair

What is up everybody! Got your seatbelts fastened? Masks on? Wallet emptied? Let’s head out on this fantasy football journey together!

This fantasy football season, I’ll be priming the pump for your fantasy football week and then doing game recaps of the Sunday and Monday night games. Feel free to drop any questions you’ve got below, and catch either me or DT on Sunday mornings to get your lineups in order. On with the good words!

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Hobbstradamus: 5 Bold Predictions for the 2021 Fantasy Football Season

September 8, 2021 | Fantasy Football Strategy | 12 Comments

by: Hobbs

It was a world unknown — and I was using an egregiously overused portmanteau in place of my name: Hobbstradomus. I awoke to tell all what I envisioned: an unimaginable world of fantasy football in which Chris Collinsworth did not exist and yet the legendary John Madden was back in full color yelling BOOM! Every two seconds. Literally. But yet I saw the cards as they were to fall, rolled over to my left, and whispered in my dear fiancé’s ear…

Her reaction was not what I expected. She called me foolish — an idiot in fact — and promptly went back to bed. Although I cannot understand her reaction to a breakthrough as important as mine at 2:49 p.m. that fateful night — I can share my findings with those who do care. And so, I present to you my five bold predictions for the 2021 fantasy football season.

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Weekly Rankings for 2021 Fantasy Football: Week 1

September 8, 2021 | Weekly Rankings | 85 Comments

by: Donkey Teeth

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:

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Broken Hearts & Busts

September 7, 2021 | Fantasy Football Strategy | 28 Comments

by: thejoeywright

The night was May 14, 2003. A night I was greatly anticipating because of two big events. First the series finale of my favorite tween television series, Dawson’s Creek or The Creek to the cool kids, was airing and at midnight. Then I was going to see the sequel to The Matrix, which was easily one of the best science fiction films of the previous ten years. It turned out to be the most disappointing night of my twenty-something pop culture obsessed life.

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Zach is Buried So Far in the Rankings that it Ertz

September 6, 2021 | Fantasy Football Strategy | 40 Comments

by: Son

As with most rookie tight ends, it took a few years for Zach Ertz to get comfortable in the league but once he got comfortable, he got COMFORTABLE. From 2015 to 2019, he garnered at least 100 targets in each season, caught at least 74 passes, racked up at least 800 yards, and had a yards-per-target of at least 7.5 in all but one season. In 2018, he caught 116 of 153 targets for 1163 yards and eight touchdowns. He finished as the number 11, 8, 3, 3, and 5 fantasy tight end over that span. Then 2020 happened: 36 catches on 72 targets for 335 yards and one touchdown in 11 games. Writing that Ertz me. Do you know what Ertz me even more, though? Before the start of last season, he was being drafted as the number 55 overall player in NFFC drafts. This season? Number 177. Here’s why he’s a value:

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Top 200 for 2021 Fantasy Football Update: The Home Stretch

September 4, 2021 | Fantasy Football Rankings | 44 Comments

by: Donkey Teeth

The biggest fantasy football draft weekend of the season is finally upon us. Saturday morning, as you shower and brush your teeth for the first time in three weeks in anticipation of the big day, don’t forget to pull up your buddy Donkey Teeth’s handy dandy top 200 rankings for reference—these rankings will be frequently updated all weekend as football news breaks. Also, don’t forget to put pants on. I know you haven’t been wearing pants very often the past three weeks, but it’s time to put some bottoms on and get out there. Unless you’re in a nudist fantasy league, then you’re already good to go. Speaking of which, does anyone have any openings in their nudist fantasy league? Asking for a friend. Anyway, here’s who’s moving most in my rankings in recent days, along with my updated top 200 rankings for 2021 fantasy football:

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Best Ball: Top Late-Round Targets

September 4, 2021 | Fantasy Football Targets | 2 Comments

by: Sam Shefrin

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Best Ball is a new type of fantasy football that has gained major traction in recent years. This is due to its unique format and lack of commitment needed. Similar to DFS, you draft once, and your work is done. Best ball is now available in almost all states where daily fantasy sports can be found, including Arizona. DFS and Best Ball launched on August 28th in the state, and Arizona Sports Betting is coming September 9th, right in time for the NFL season. This means that you can not only play fantasy but also bet on sports in Arizona. Several of the major brands like DraftKings & FanDuel are offering DFS, Best Ball, and sports betting in the state.

The NFL Season is right around the corner, and our staff has done a ton of Underdog Fantasy Best Ball drafts in preparation for the new season. Best Ball is one of the most exciting and simple ways to play, as once you draft your lineup, you don’t have to do anything else for the remainder of the year. Underdog automatically starts your best quarterback, two best running backs, three best wide receivers, best tight end, and best flex every week throughout the season. With that type of format, the upside is king in the later rounds as you’re looking for players who can break through to your starting lineup over your highly-drafted players. Once you get to the last few rounds in your draft, though, it can be easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer number of names and not know where to turn for that week-winning upside. The following are some of my favorite targets in the late rounds using Underdog ADP:

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QB Pockets – Where to Draft Your Quarterback

September 4, 2021 | Fantasy Football Strategy | 10 Comments

by: JB Barry

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It’s the holiday weekend and football season is right around the corner. Leagues everywhere are scrambling to set up their fantasy drafts before kickoff this week. Today’s article is going to help you prepare for your draft and help you plan when and how to draft your quarterbacks. The most common leagues are 10 or 12 team redraft leagues where you start 1 QB each week, so in those leagues, you want to have 2 starting quarterbacks when you walk out of the draft room. There are 32 teams in the NFL so you can do this with no problem, but you also don’t want to come out of your draft with Tyrod Taylor as your backup QB. What I’m going to break down for you here in this article is specifically where to target drafting your quarterbacks this year.

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