Week 1 PPR Rankings (Top 300)

What's up RotoBallers. Below you will find our overall Week 1 PPR rankings for fantasy football. Three of our lead fantasy football columnists, Bill Dubiel, Pierre Camus and Frankie Soler, have analyzed the NFL matchups and game slates for Week 1. Below you will find their consensus staff ranks. Feel free to click those links and give these fine gentlemen a follow, or […]

Fantasy Football Mailbag – Let The Games Begin!

Football is back! After 213 days of free agent signings, training camp reports, beat writer projections, and fantasy drafts, the new NFL season officially gets underway tonight as the Patriots welcome Kansas City to Foxboro. That typically triggers a sense of excitement to fans and fantasy players, but it can also trigger anxiety and hasty decision […]

2017 Standard Ranking Analysis - Wide Receiver

With the NFL season just around the corner, it's time to check in with the Rotoballer experts and see what they're thinking about at the wide receiver position. Whether you're getting ready for a last minute draft or trying to figure out your lineup for Week 1, we're here to help. The wide receiver position […]

2017 Standard Ranking Analysis - Running Back

The 2017 season is finally almost here! You've probably drafted your team by now and are looking at your roster while either thinking about how great it looks or thinking about how you really, really messed up. Don't worry! Rotoballer is here to help you figure out what to do with your present mess. Our […]

Half-PPR Rankings Analysis – Tight Ends

You know the fantasy football season is right around the corner when the first starting quarterback tears an ACL and the first top tailback gets suspended for off-the-field fiascos. Tight ends are not as valuable as quarterbacks, running backs and receivers in fantasy football, but the points they provide, especially in half-PPR leagues, can propel […]

2017 Fantasy Football Team Outlook - New England Patriots

This article continues our team outlook series where we will break down each NFL team from a fantasy football perspective. We will cover the major changes on each roster from this off-season and project what the team will do in the upcoming year. Today we take a look at the New England Patriots. The Patriots began […]

2017 NFL Team Outlook - Cincinnati Bengals

This article continues our team outlook series where we will break down each NFL team from a fantasy football perspective. We will cover the major changes on each roster from this off-season and project what the team will do in the upcoming year. Today we take a look at the Cincinnati Bengals. The Cincinnati Bengals […]

Thursday NFL Matchup Analysis: Chiefs @ Patriots

Football season is finally back, bringing a whole new breath of excitement into Sundays, Mondays, and of course Thursdays! On the fantasy football side of things, it can also mean stressing about whether to put certain players in your lineup for the Thursday Night Football matchup over later games on the weekend. My goal with […]

RotoBaller's Fantastic Four - 2017 Bold Predictions

Oh hot damn, RotoBaller's big dawgs are back for football season. You know you never get sick of bold predictions and hot taeks, and our taeks are the hottest around. Unplug your smoke detectors--here comes the fire. Our "Fantastic Four" is comprised of JB Branson (@RowdyRotoJB), Nick Mariano (@NMariano53), Max Petrie (@Max_Petrie) and Bill Dubiel (@Roto_Dubs). The […]

Five Deeper Wide Receiver Sleepers for 2017 Fantasy Football

In fantasy football, the wide receiver position has by and far the most depth of any player group. This is not to say that all wide receivers should be passed on in favor of quarterbacks or running backs on draft day, but it does mean that there are plenty of hidden gems lurking in the […]

Half-PPR Wide Receiver Rankings Analysis

Heading into 2016, wide receivers were considered the “safest” fantasy option, but that changed in a hurry. Running backs were three of the top five non-QB scorers according to ESPN scoring in 2016. Every team does need to fill in wide receiver positions, and this year there is certainly an amount of depth at the […]

2017 NFL Team Outlook - Buffalo Bills

New faces: that is the phrase that can be used to describe the Buffalo Bills roster coming into the 2017 NFL season. After finishing 7-9 in the brutal AFC East, the Bills look as if they are trying to rebuild their team to contend for the division title. However, that will not happen this season, […]

Half-PPR Running Back Rankings Analysis

Playing in half-point per reception leagues are one of the more difficult things to do in fantasy. Owners need to weight which players not only will catch passes, but also have touchdown upside as well. Running backs that catch more passes should certainly have increased value over backs that are strictly running the football on […]

2017 Rankings Analysis - Quarterback

Hey Rotoballers! The start of the NFL season is right around the corner at this point. With several drafts likely scheduled for Labor Day weekend, or even next week leading up to next Thursday's New England Patriots-Kansas City Chiefs opener, the rankers here at Rotoballer have made some final tweaks to their rankings. That said, […]

Bold Predictions for 2017 Fantasy Football - Pierre

If you think about it, everything we do is a bold prediction in this industry. We know not what the future holds, yet we are tasked with ranking players, suggesting waiver wire adds and evaluating trades. That's what makes it so fun. There is a chance that every single one of these predictions becomes laughably incorrect […]

The Running Back Handcuff Hedge - Who To Handcuff

We have learned over time that the running back position is without question the most volatile in fantasy football. This understanding is based upon the percentage of injuries versus the other skilled positions, NFL teams increasingly using split back committees, and also takes into account weekly fantasy scoring consistency. Along with this natural order of chaos, […]

2017 Running Back Depth Chart Analysis

Running backs are important--you can't win a fantasy league if you don't get at least solid production from the position. But with the increased usage of committees and the high risk of injuries at the position, picking out who to own from a team can feel like a crapshoot. Quality running backs tend to come […]

Later Round Gems - Deeper PPR Sleepers

What's up RotoBallers. The NFL and fantasy football seasons are right around the corner, and will be kicking off in just a few short days. At this point, you're getting ready for your final fantasy football drafts or anxiously awaiting your first. Today I will help you win. I'm here to discuss some PPR draft values […]

Late-Round Wide Receivers - ADP Draft Values

A general discussion of strategy seems like as good a preface as any for this topic. There’s something to be said for predictability in fantasy football. When you take a player in the early rounds, it makes you feel a little bit more warm and fuzzy to have some idea what that player is going […]

Chris Hogan (WR, NE) - Fantasy Football Draft Value

BALLER MOVE: Target ~90 CURRENT ADP: ~115 ANALYSIS: There are a lot of mouths to feed in New England, but Hogan posted respectable numbers on a scant 58 targets a year ago. Give him 80 targets at the same rate of production and he finishes at WR28 just ahead of Kenny Stills. Give him 100 targets and […]

Take a Hike - The Importance of Grabbing an Elite QB

Depending on when you learned, or were taught, to play fantasy football, you picked up on a certain trend, whether consciously or subconsciously. While the fantasy community loves to talk about "Zero RB", it's a strategy that only got its name a few years ago. Many of us that get tweeted or asked fantasy football […]

2017 PPR Rankings Analysis - Running Back

Hey there Rotoballers! The start of the NFL season is right around the corner at this point. With several drafts likely scheduled for Labor Day weekend, or even next week leading up to next Thursday's New England Patriots-Kansas City Chiefs opener, the experts here at Rotoballer have made some final tweaks to their rankings. With […]

Updated Standard Rankings and Tiers: Top 375

The preseason is roaring, injuries have hit, and position battles are being finalized. That means it's time for another round of rankings updates for your draft prep. Below are our staff's updated fantasy football standard (non-PPR) rankings, including rankings tiers and auction dollar values. Use these as your rankings guide to standard drafts, to know which players to draft and […]

RotoBaller PPR Mock Draft Recap - Rounds 4-6

We continue our look at RotoBaller's recent PPR Mock Draft 2.0 with a recap of rounds 4-6. Earlier in August, we gathered 12 RotoBaller experts writers to conduct a week-long, email draft, MFL10-style, in order to evaluate ADP values and draft strategies in standard scoring fantasy football leagues. If you didn't catch it earlier, start […]

Stop That Hype Train! - Mike Gillislee

Hey there Rotoballers! Today we are going to continue our new series on overhyped players with Mike Gillislee, running back for the New England Patriots. This series will take a look at several overhyped sleepers across the fantasy football landscape, so be on the lookout for other articles highlighting players who have earned way more […]

Preseason Depth Chart Risers and Fallers

Over the course of the offseason, training camp, and the preseason, many names will be floated around as potentially having fantasy value. The preseason is typically when all that gets cleared up as depth charts are finalized, roster cuts are made, and we get some clarity on who is positioned where on each team. The […]

Shane Vereen (RB, NYG) - Fantasy Football Draft Value

BALLER MOVE: Target ~160 CURRENT ADP: ~175 ANALYSIS: The Giants haven't had any semblance of a reliable rushing attack since Ahmad Bradshaw headed off to Indianapolis back in 2013. Since then, it's been a motley crew along the way. There's a ton of hype regarding sophomore RB Paul Perkins, all of which is understandable. Still, Vereen shouldn't […]

Paul Perkins (RB, NYG) - Fantasy Football Draft Value

BALLER MOVE: Target ~68 CURRENT ADP: ~83 ANALYSIS: Somewhere between the beginning of last season and now, Paul Perkins has become the running back with a great opportunity without a dynamite skillset. That confuses me, because we talked about this 2016 rookie and his pass-catching prowess like it was nothing we had ever seen before. I understand this […]

Running Backs You Must Own in 2017 - Mid-Round ADP Values

Hey RotoBallers! In this article, I'll be looking at running backs to target in the middle rounds (6th-10th in Fantasy Pros Consensus ADP), and I'll explain why these three backs are worth reaching for in hopes of a huge return on investment. I'll try to answer the question that everyone wants to know: who's that running back that […]

Updated PPR Rankings and Tiers: Top 375

The preseason is roaring, injuries have hit, and position battles are being finalized. That means it's time for another round of PPR rankings updates for your draft prep. Below are our staff's updated fantasy football PPR rankings, including rankings tiers and auction dollar values. Use these as your rankings guide to PPR drafts, to know which players to draft […]