10 Lineup Busts and Avoids for Week 16

It's championship week for many of you, a week where you need to make sure you avoid making any big mistakes in a must win circumstance. The pressure is on! I've gone through all the games this week and identified ten players to watch out for in Week 16, players who have the potential to... Read More

Deeper Sleepers for Fantasy Football (Week 16)

It's (probably) your championship week and you might have some issues if, for instance, you're an Antonio Brown owner in a deep league. That's why Rotoballer is here: to help you through this final week of your fantasy season. Because so many of our readers are done after this week, none of these targets take... Read More

Fantasy Basketball Risers and Fallers (Week 10)

Another week of the season is the in the books and it was, as always, a wild one. We had that fun Oklahoma City/Indiana game. We had the Bulls winning games. We had the Rockets being the Rockets. Andre Drummond almost getting a triple-double. The NBA! It's a fun place. It's also likely been a... Read More

10 Lineup Busts and Avoids for Week 15

The playoffs are in full swing now. How's it going? I'm heading into a bitter, two week showdown in one of my leagues against the guy who lets me watch RedZone on his new television every Sunday and I'm actually excited about it. As I close in on the end of my first year at Rotoballer,... Read More

Dede Westbrook (WR, JAX) - Week 15 Waiver Wire Adds

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 29% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: The Jacksonville Jaguars offense is on a bit of a hot streak over the past few games, with quarterback Blake Bortles starting to look like a serviceable NFL quarterback. Bortles, according to Jaguars Public Relations Manager Tad Dickman, has completed 71.0 percent of his... Read More

Peyton Barber (RB, TB) - Week 15 Waiver Wire Adds

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 36% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: With Doug Martin healthy and starting, it looked like the Peyton Barber hype train was pulling back into the station, especially after Martin found the end zone early in Week 14. But aside from that score, Martin was ineffective, finishing with 10 carries... Read More

Tarik Cohen (RB, CHI) - Week 15 Waiver Wire Adds

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 44% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Chicago Bears rookie running back Tarik Cohen has had an up-and-down year. The Bears opened the season with Cohen heavily involved in the run game and passing game as starting running back Jordan Howard struggled to get going, but Cohen began to see... Read More

Deeper Sleepers for Fantasy Football (Week 15)

Happy playoffs, y'all! If you're still checking Rotoballer, you've probably either made the playoffs or you care very deeply about crushing some opponents in the consolation bracket. We're here to help you with whatever your current goals are! Waivers are pretty bare at this point, but not all is lost--there are still some under the... Read More

Fantasy Basketball Risers and Fallers for NBA Week 9

The NBA season keeps chugging along, though it feels like injuries are starting to take a toll across the league. John Wall. Anthony Davis. Nikola Jokic. But for every injury, there's (probably) someone who's benefiting, right? In New Orleans, for example, DeMarcus Cousins has been on fire, including a 40-point, 22-rebound game against Denver. Why... Read More

10 Lineup Busts and Avoids for Week 14

It's time to turn up the pressure! Week 14 is here and that means the playoffs have probably begun in your leagues. If you made it, congrats! If you didn't, there's always next year! Or there's the consolation bracket, which comes with a tiny, tiny amount of bragging rights. Or there's daily fantasy. Fantasy football... Read More

Cameron Brate (TE, TB) - Week 14 Waiver Wire Adds

BALLER MOVE: Add in 10-12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 54% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: You would have been forgiven if you'd dropped Cameron Brate after he went four weeks without recording more than one catch in a game. Brate got off to a hot start in 2017, finding the end zone every week between Week 3 and Week... Read More

Marquise Goodwin (WR, SF) - Week 14 Waiver Wire Adds

BALLER MOVE: Add in 10-12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 32% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo made his first start as a 49er on Sunday and Marquise Goodwin benefited from that, finishing with a season-high eight catches in San Francisco's win over the Bears. It was Goodwin's second-best week in terms of yardage and his fourth game... Read More

Stephen Anderson (TE, HOU) - Week 14 Waiver Wire Adds

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-14+ Team PPR Leagues OWNED IN: 0% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: In addition to losing starting tight end C.J. Fiedorowicz to a concussion (his third of the season and fourth in the past twelve months) in Week 13, the Houston Texans's loss to Tennessee saw wide receivers Bruce Ellington (hamstring) and Braxton Miller... Read More

Ricky Seals-Jones (TE, ARI) - Week 14 Waiver Wire Adds

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 28% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: After a pair of huge games that seemingly came out of nowhere, Arizona Cardinals tight end Ricky Seals-Jones came back down to earth in the Cardinals Week 13 loss to the Los Angeles Rams, finishing with two catches for 44 yards. Seals-Jones did continue... Read More

Brett Hundley (QB, GB) - Week 14 Waiver Wire Adds

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team / 2 QB Leagues OWNED IN: 12% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: It's been an up and down season for Brett Hundley since taking over for the injured Aaron Rodgers. Two weeks ago, Hundley threw for 245 yards and three touchdowns against a tough Steelers defense, but he followed that up with a... Read More

Deeper Sleepers for Standard Fantasy Football Leagues (Week 14)

It's fantasy playoff time, y'all, which means your waiver claims have to stop being lottery tickets and start being pieces that you believe can actively contribute to your playoff run. That makes everyone's job harder, because there's much less room for error. Thankfully, there are some good options for this week, especially at quarterback! For... Read More

Marlon Mack (RB, IND) - Week 14 Waiver Wire Adds

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 23% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Indianapolis Colts running back Marlon Mack has had an up-and-down year in terms of consistency, but he's trending upwards right now after accounting for 54 yards on just seven touches against a tough Jaguars defense. With the Colts out of contention in the AFC... Read More

10 Lineup Busts and Avoids for Week 13

Week 13 is here, which means some people are starting the playoffs (if you're playing two-week playoff match-ups in leagues with four playoff teams and aren't doing Week 17, or if you have some weird system of playoff byes) and many more people are preparing for their final game before the playoffs begin. It's at... Read More

Fantasy Basketball Risers and Fallers for NBA Week 8

Hey there! I'm Justin Carter. If you play fantasy football in addition to fantasy basketball, you may have seen me around this site this season, giving you advice on such things as which NFL players are going to be bad this week and which players you should add to your teams in deep leagues, but... Read More

Arizona Cardinals - A Team to Buy Into for Dynasty Leagues?

If you play fantasy football and owned David Johnson at the beginning of this season, you were very disappointed when he went down with a season-ending injury (COME ON ARIZONA DO NOT ACTUALLY RISK PLAYING HIM AT THE END OF THIS YEAR!). Ditto for when Carson Palmer went down. The Arizona Cardinals were a team... Read More

Tyrod Taylor (QB, BUF) - Week 13 Waiver Wire Adds

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team/Two-QB Leagues OWNED IN: 49% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: After a one-week absence from the starting lineup as the Bills turned to rookie Nathan Peterman (who threw five interceptions before being benched), Tyrod Taylor returned for Week 12. Taylor didn't throw for many yards in Buffalo's 16-10 win over the Chiefs, but he... Read More

Cordarelle Patterson (WR, OAK) - Week 13 Waiver Wire Adds

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 4% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Cordarelle Patterson finds himself thrust into a key role in Oakland's passing attack after Amari Cooper left Week 12's game with both a concussion and sprained ankle while Michael Crabtree left it in a flurry of punches and penalty flags that resulted in a... Read More

Deeper Sleepers for Standard Fantasy Football Leagues (Week 13)

Another week of football in the books! Sunday's games felt a little more...boring?...than usual, but that's probably because there were less of them. I did get treated to something nice, though, in the second slate of games, when my friend with RedZone's new television arrived and we were able to actually see what was happening... Read More

Austin Ekeler (RB, LAC) - Week 13 Waiver Wire Adds

BALLER MOVE: Add in All PPR Leagues OWNED IN: 34% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Austin Ekeler had his worst game of the month on Thanksgiving against the Cowboys. His stat-line? Six carries for 15 yards, and three catches for 55. Ekeler has carved out a role in the Chargers offense as a change-of-pace back and a receiving threat... Read More

Playoffs Strategy - Rookies Who Are Ready To Rock

It is hard--very hard--to trust your fantasy season to an unproven rookie late in the season. Early in the year? Whatever-anything goes! That first-round wide receiver playing on a run-first team? Hey, it's Week 2, so I'll take the risk! But by Week 12? The level of trust you have to show at this point... Read More

10 Lineup Busts and Avoids for Week 12

Another year of Thanksgiving games has come and gone, and I want to go on a quick rant that is only tangentially related to fantasy football, and isn't at all related to the actual premise of this column: the Dish Network and CBS dispute. I was invited to a friend's family Thanksgiving and went with... Read More

Deeper Sleepers for Standard Leagues (Week 12)

We've reached the point where some leagues are wrapping up their regular seasons, which means some of us are under immense pressure in Week 12 to win our games. There are two ways of thinking that I subscribe to at various times and for various reasons. If my team has been pretty solid all year... Read More

10 Lineup Busts and Avoids for Week 11

I planned on writing up a long introduction about this current fantasy football season, but I had computer issues the entire time I was working on this week's column, so something had to suffer due to time constraints. I don't think it would be a good idea to let the actual bust picks suffer, so... Read More

Deeper Sleepers for Standard Leagues (Week 11)

There's a surprising amount of players I considered for this list this week--especially at the running back position, where there were a lot of players whose ownership was under 20% but who ended up with five or more carries this week. This is anecdotal, but it felt like running backs were more active this week than... Read More

10 Lineup Busts and Avoids for Week 10

We're getting closer to the end of the season--we've reached the double-digit weeks now!--which means that the decisions you make become amplified. That can be good if you make some good choices, but it can also come back to bite you if you make some bad ones. Here at Rotoballer, we want to give you... Read More