The Stats Machine, Week 8: Giving Brady Some Wood Head

October 30, 2015 | 2015 Buy/Sell, 2015 Fantasy Football | 16 Comments

For Halloween this year I heard that many computers are masquerading as The Stats Machine. Just so there is no confusion, let me set the record straight and say that there is only one Stats Machine. It’s formula cannot be duplicated as it is only documented in the mind of its creator. Me. For the last seven weeks TSM has cranked out its interpretation of every players performance and reported to you who it believed were the cream of the crop. The upper crust if you will. The Stats Machine doesn’t care about how many fantasy points a player scores. Instead it looks at raw performance (stats). Opportunity (snaps and targets). And opposing defenses. After the first four weeks of the season I instructed TSM to spit out its YTD rankings. Let’s compare those rankings to the current YTD rankings as defined only by fantasy points. In simpler terms, let’s see how the players TSM ranked as the best are now doing based on fantasy points scored after seven weeks…

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RCL Update, Week 8: Zod the Hitman

by: J-FOH

Welcome back to the best Razzball Football RCL and RazzDP update around. I know, I know, it’s the only one… and that’s why it’s the best! After a little mini-vacation by me (I was sick last week), I have returned to fill you in with what is going on. I have a confession to make. I am having some serious Fantasy Baseball withdrawal right now. Anyone else with me? In the past, football provided the methadone I needed to hold me off til spring, but it’s just not cutting it this year. To kill time, I’ve been buried in Netflix catching up on some series (Narcos!) and watching movies I normally would pay no attention too. I came across Europa Report and The Iceman, and was pleasantly surprised. One is a great space flick, shot very well, that gives you that uneasiness, and the other is a true story about a mob hit man played by the always creepy Michael Shannon. Both these flicks are thumb uppers for me. Hey wait, enough about Netflix, this is suppose to be about football…

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FanDuel: Midseason Breather

October 30, 2015 | 2015 Daily Fantasy, 2015 Fantasy Football |

by: Zach

Alright guys, let’s take a chance to catch our breath.

Wow, what a year so far it has been. From 2014, Daily Fantasy Football has grown so much with advertisements, big winnings, and everything in between. Even here, Razzball didn’t have that much to do with DFS, now we have special contests, cheat sheets, strategy articles (3 cheers!), and a lot of that has to do with you, the readers, and the general public.

However, it is important to take a chance to stop, collect ourselves, and take an opportunity to fix mistakes, change strategy, and figure new ways to cash in with different lineups. This article will touch on mistakes, new strategies to implement, and players that have impacted DFS greatly. Let’s get to it.

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Fish Got Squished

October 30, 2015 | 2015 Fantasy Football, Fantasy Football Daily Notes | 32 Comments

by: Son

That pretty much summed up Thursday night’s game.

The final score score was 36-7 and it wasn’t even that close. The Dolphins’ one successful drive was the first one of the second half. It was good to see some fight, although I suspect that head coach Dan Campbell went all Mick Foley on some fools at halftime.

It was cute to see Miami come into this game with some confidence after dispatching of two Arena-league teams. The Dolphins have talent (I picked them to appear in the Super Bowl). Doh! But… you can’t be a serious contender when you have a fight song like this…

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The Injury Report, Week 8: Joseph Randle’s Situation is Oblique

October 29, 2015 | 2015 Fantasy Football, 2015 Injury Report | 22 Comments

by: RotoLance

This past week had a season ending achilles injury to Arian Foster , a significant knee injury to Vincent Jackson, and Darren McFadden came up big while Joseph Randle missed much of his game due to injury. With Foster being the big and oft covered news item of the week and the fact that it’s already Thursday, I’m turning my attention to other situations, starting with the newly injured, repeat law breaker (allegedly), the one and only…

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Who Are These Guys, Week 8: He Put The “Add” In McFadden

October 29, 2015 | 2015 Fantasy Football, 2015 Roster Strategy | 17 Comments

by: malamoney

Every week I’m amazed that, theoretically, it is very possible to drop my entire team after Monday night’s game and rebuild a winning team with the scraps that are available on the waiver wire. I say theoretically because I really wanted to use that word in this post. That’s not completely true. I say as much because, as they say, hindsight is 20/20. By the way, who the heck are “they”? It’s easy to read Monday morning’s newspaper and pick out the top performers that no one saw coming. After all, that is why they are on the waiver wire in the first place. The skill is being able to identify those players prior to Sunday. Let’s take a look at this week’s collection of misfits that together, combined for over 200 points (201.98).

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IDP Rankings, Week 8: Barron Mark of St. Louis

October 29, 2015 | 2015 Fantasy Football, 2015 IDP Rankings, 2015 IDP Report | 40 Comments

by: Kevin Kumpf

Sometimes it takes players a few years to find their footing in the NFL. Whether it’s experience, a new coach, or a change of scenery, some guys just need a little extra something to jumpstart their careers. In the case of Mark Barron, he checked pretty much all of those boxes. He played a lot as a rookie, got traded to the Rams in his third year, and had two very different coaching situations in Greg Schiano and Jeff Fisher. Oddly enough, it took a drastic position change to give him his biggest game from an IDP perspective. With Alec Ogletree out for the foreseeable future (and finally officially on IR!), the Rams moved Barron to the WLB slot full time last week, and he responded with a whopping 16 tackles. The fact that he’s still listed as a Safety on all sites means that Barron immediately becomes a must own top 10 DB. My biggest concern is consistency, as he’s never shown it in the past, but his two biggest issues – allowing big plays and missing tackles – become less of a concern at WLB, where he’ll have plenty of help, as opposed to being the last line of defense. This could definitely go poorly, but the upside is impossible to ignore.

As far as the rest of the IDP news heading into Week 8, we start in a familiar spot…

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Rankings, Week 8: And the Winner is…

October 29, 2015 | 2015 Fantasy Football, 2015 Weekly Rankings | 161 Comments

by: Jay

Period	Accuracy	Rank	High	Low	Percentile
Week 7	57.8%	37 out of 129	66.8%	43.1%	Top 30%
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	56.0%	26 out of 124	58.6%	47.7%	Top 25%
2014	58.1%	31 out of 125	60.7%	50.6%	Top 25%

We’ve had two contests running, the first being for using our remade Fantasy Football Team Name Generator and yesterday’s Steiner Sports Giveaway. The first was for a Razzball T-Shirt (of your choice) and the second was for $100.00 to use on Steiner Sports Memorabilia Store (which has some pretty awesome stuff.) Both winners were chosen randomly by Rudy, that way if you didn’t win, you can just blame him. I usually find that to be my de facto position at all times anyhow, so I’m sure he’s used to it. So congratulations to the two Razzball readers, you’ll find their names after the jump!

Along with your Week 8 Rankings and FanDuel Week 8 Cheatsheet… (The Rest of Season Rankings have been updated and can be found here.)

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The Max Factor: A Hill to Tanne On

October 28, 2015 | 2015 Buy/Sell, 2015 Fantasy Football | 32 Comments

by: Max

Razzball squire back reporting for duty! In many cases, I would be appalled by the nickname “squire”. I think to myself no one is as great as me! NO ONE. Then I took a look at Tehol’s jawline and general being and… then I realized I had to change my pants. My new jeans then spoke to me and told me “learn from this man and better yourself”. Then I looked at the RCL writers standings and my pants were suddenly no longer dirty. I am ahead of God himself. Bless…

Last week we took a look at the Cardinals offense. Carson Palmer looked fantastic again. He had it all going. Short, medium, and long routes. I’m still sad this is not how Peyton Manning is playing. John Brown looks like he is slowly taking the lead role and stealing Palmer’s heart away from Larry Fitzgerald. It makes me sad because I have no shares in Brown as I was able to steal Larry in the late rounds in many leagues. When it comes to debating whether to start Amendola or Fitz, I instantly get sad. Chris Johnson is clearly the lead back moving forward until he craps the bed, gets injured or fumbles one too many times. Avoid the rest but I would be ok with trying to acquire Ellington at a discount to handcuff CJ2K.

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Smokey Says, Week 8: Brick City Ebron

October 28, 2015 | 2015 Buy/Sell, 2015 Fantasy Football | 33 Comments

by: Smokey

As many of us know by sifting through the waiver wire (and many of us not being Gronk owners), the troublesome times of being a “1-B” tight end owner have become very apparent. For soothe! The streaming tight end Acropolis of Justice has arrived and peered it’s shallow head. Alas, it is Sir Eric of Ebron riding on his trusty steed of Cooter. It’s funny I wrote that without any implications of it being sexually charged in any manner, and when I reread it out loud in front of my church choir, it elicited several “lord have mercies!” and a few “oh my’s!” It’s Fantasy Football, fellow church pundits. There is no sexual being in the house of Jay(Wrong), because the path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by pass-catching tight ends. And you will know my name is the Lord when I strike my YAC on thee. So I am glad that religiousness is all omnipresent up in here, because last week instead of getting Wilson’d, I should have Nae-Nae’d and said Conley… my bad. Alex Smith is the Judas of fantasy quarterbacks, and my coin said tails to his Conley heads. I will atone thee this week with the bye week and future tight end love through my tagging of Eric Ebron as the salvation of the usually blah-flotilla known as the fantasy TE. Intrigued? Of course you are, I just used 3-4 hidden quotes directly from the bible in that first paragraph. Seek further for the divinity of knowledge within!

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Special Razzball Event: $100.00 Steiner Sports Giveaway!

October 28, 2015 | 2015 Fantasy Football, Y to Z | 138 Comments

by: Jay

If you’ve been reading the site this year, you’ve picked up on the fact that we’ve had a lot of giveaways. Whether it’s upping the prize amount for our RCL Leagues, or offering special money contests where you can take me on (and take my money), or… just having fun making team names and winning a Razzball T-shirt, I’m happy to give back and provide for the community that has given so much to me (and the Razzball brand). I hope, as we keep growing, to get even wetter and wilder with future contests, giveaways, and prizes. Just like your mom.

Today, I’m happy to announce a $100.00 giveaway to one lucky reader for use at Steiner Sports. All you have to do is sign-up for our newsletter (which is just an one email per week, and does not contain spam, just a review of our post’s during the past seven days, just to make sure you caught up on everything Razzball.) Sounds easy, right? Right! A random winner will be chosen from those who sign up today, and will receive $100.00. That’s it. (You can sign up in that little spot underneath this post where it says: I don’t have enough spam, give me the Razzball email newsletter!)

And who’s the awesome sponsor to make this all possible? A special shout-out goes to Steiner Sports, home to some pretty sweet sports memorabilia and provider for your gift card! I’d ask that you check out some of their site (click here!), if only because I’ve already bought a few choice LaDainian Tomlinson swag, and I can attest, this stuff is pretty darn neat (as Philip Rivers would describe it), and I’d like some company so I don’t feel so guilty spending that cash monies. They must know me well… show me anything that has blue with a lightning bolt, I’m melted butter. Mmmm, butter. And speaking of butter, it’s one of God’s tools during Thanksgiving. And Thanksgiving means Black Friday. And what does that have to do with anything? I’m glad I asked! Steiner Sports is holding a huge-a-fragilistic (totally a word) sale on that day! Be sure to check it out!

Regardless, good luck Razzballers! (I’ll announce the winner tomorrow in my Week 8 Rankings post, along with the winner of our T-Shirt contest!)

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Through the Wire, Week 8: Hey Nice Cooter!

October 27, 2015 | 2015 Fantasy Football, Waiver Wire | 87 Comments

by: Geoff

Three words Jim Bob Cooter. Why do I begin this week’s edition of Through The Wire with the name of the Lions newly promoted Offensive Coordinator? Not because I feel his advancement will have any sort of positive impact upon the Lions offense. No, not at all, but for two very specific reasons, that are completely unrelated to football.

1. His birth name isn’t Jim Bob. It’s is in fact James Robert Cooter. To this I say he chose the Jim Bob life. That says a great deal about a person.

2. He’s a creep who likes to get a little silly, by breaking into woman’s bedrooms and stripping down to his tightie whities.

So now that I’ve been given my medium to express my feelings of appreciation for all that is The Coot, let’s move on to more pressing matters.I not going to do what everybody thinks I’m going to, and that’s talk about the Arian Foster injury and freak out man. Instead I’m going to quite simply state that I’m rooting for injuries at this point. So Arain Foster’s torn Achilles, good for business. On that note, here are your Week 8 wavier wire adds.

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