Steeler Showdown: Diontae Johnson vs George Pickens

This is my second installment featuring an ADP battle between two teammates. In my last edition, I focused on the Chargers’ receivers, Mike Williams and Keenan Allen which you can find here. Both, like George Pickens Diontae Johnson for the Steelers who we’ll be discussing today, have very similar ADPs. Johnson and Pickens are separated […]

Fantasy Football Early First-Round 2023 Mock Draft

With the 2022 fantasy football season drifting out of our rearview window, it’s time to look forward. Whether you were crowned champion last year or endured a grueling season of agony and heartache, what you reap will soon come to sow. The last-place finishers will be granted the gift of the first overall selection in […]

FFPC Dynasty Fantasy Football Cutdown Day: Trading And Trimming

Dynasty leagues give you the most immersive fantasy football experience possible. From a gaming perspective, they best replicate the feel of being a pro football owner, general manager, and coach in one interactive package. This is especially true in the high-stakes gaming world, on platforms such as the Fantasy Football Players Championship. Dynasty leagues are […]

FFPC Dynasty Fantasy Football Orphan Teams: The Most Intense Challenge

At its best, fantasy football is a user-friendly replication of what it may be like to run a pro football team as a hybrid owner, general manager, and coach. When playing in an annual seasonal league or a new startup league, though, you miss out on some very compelling parts of the experience. Those who […]

2023 NFL Scouting Combine Preview: Wide Receivers

The 2023 NFL Scouting Combine marks a critical milestone in the journey of aspiring NFL players. Each year, the combine provides an opportunity for college football prospects to showcase their athletic abilities and catch the attention of NFL coaches, scouts, and executives. This year, the event promises to be an exciting and competitive one, with […]

2023 NFL Scouting Combine Preview: Running Backs

The 2023 NFL Scouting Combine marks a critical milestone in the journey of aspiring NFL players. Each year, the combine provides an opportunity for college football prospects to showcase their athletic abilities and catch the attention of NFL coaches, scouts, and executives. This year, the event promises to be an exciting and competitive one, with […]

2023 NFL Scouting Combine Preview: Quarterbacks

The 2023 NFL Scouting Combine marks a critical milestone in the journey of aspiring NFL players. Each year, the combine provides an opportunity for college football prospects to showcase their athletic abilities and catch the attention of NFL coaches, scouts, and executives. This year, the event promises to be an exciting and competitive one, with […]

Who Are the Top Five Draft Picks for 2023 Fantasy Football?

The 2022 fantasy football season is over, but that doesn't mean we are done analyzing the game. The 2023 draft season will be here before we know it.  There are plenty of fantasy football-obsessed people out there already thinking about next season, so it's time to take an early look at the potential top-five picks […]

Which Team Has the #1 Pick in the 2023 NFL Draft?

There was a lot of great football played during the 2022 NFL regular season. There was also a lot of bad football played. But the team that played the worst and lost the most games received the first pick in the 2023 NFL Draft. That always presents an exciting opportunity for any franchise, and it […]

FFPC Playoff Challenge - Winning Lineup Strategies

The FFPC (Fantasy Football Players Championship) has long been an industry leader among competitive high-stakes sites for season-long fantasy football. If you are looking for playoff action in the same vein, look no further. Once again, they are offering the FFPC Playoff Challenge and the FootballGuys Playoff Challenge with big prizes up for grabs. We're talking […]

Five Strategies To Help You Win Your Fantasy Football Playoff Leagues

If you won a fantasy football title in the regular season and are looking for more hardware, or if you want redemption after a bad year, the fantasy football season isn't over just yet. You can add to the excitement of the NFL playoffs by assembling a team of your own in an attempt to […]

How to Approach Superflex Fantasy Football Drafts in 2022

Superflex is becoming a much more common format all across the fantasy football landscape and for good reason. When you think about it, the default 1QB format in fantasy football is the complete opposite of real life. In the real-life NFL, half of the league is beyond desperate for a quarterback upgrade and General Managers […]

Scott Engel's 1st Round Fantasy Football Draft Guide: The King's Pick-By-Pick Draft Strategy

At this time of year, the biggest question in the fantasy football universe is naturally, “who do I take in the first round?” As an annual feature, I identify the best potential selections at every draft slot in the first round. We tell you who to consider and why in the first round of a […]

Scott Engel's Fantasy Football Mock Draft - The King's 2022 One-Man Mock

Now that the preseason is officially over, I have delivered my annual exercise that I have been furnishing since the late 1990s, the one-man mock draft. In this feature, I attempt to sit in the draft chairs of all participants in the first four rounds of a 12-team PPR league with four points for a […]

Will Rashaad Penny or Kenneth Walker Be Bell-Cow RBs? Fantasy Football Outlooks

The "Bell-Cow Back" archetype is slowly fading out of fantasy football. With more and more NFL teams employing committees in their backfields, the true workhorses become increasingly valuable to fantasy managers. The Seattle Seahawks spent the end of last season observing Rashaad Penny have the best stretch of games of his career to this point. […]

Running Backs Targets for Zero-RB Fantasy Football Drafts (2022)

There are so many different fantasy football draft strategies nowadays, but no other strategy comes with as much scrutiny and judgment as the zero-running back strategy. For the longest time, the running back position was widely accepted as the most important position in fantasy football. For some, that’s still very much the case. However, with […]

Suggested Roster Builds From Every Draft Slot: Fantasy Football Positions To Prioritize

The most popular preseason fantasy football question is “who do I take with the first pick?” We have covered that here. So we now must address a question that is asked seemingly almost as often, which is “how do I start my draft? What positions should I go for first, and in what order?” Every […]

Is Late-Round QB A Viable Strategy? QB Options To Target in Fantasy Football Drafts

It has generally been an accepted strategy by many in the fantasy community that you should always wait on a quarterback as the position can be hard to predict and the same players don't always repeat at the top every year. This has also rung true in most leagues since the running back position tends […]

Will Denzel Mims Be Traded? Is He Worth Drafting for Fantasy If Traded

Recently, New York Jets wide receiver Denzel Mims requested a trade. This shouldn't come as a shock considering Mims has been underutilized during his two seasons with the team. Still young, Mims is looking for a new start elsewhere, but are the Jets ready to let him go? Coming into the preseason, Mims appeared to […]

The Annual IDP One-Man/Multiple Personalities Mock Draft

As is our tradition, we close the pre-season every summer with a new One Man Mock with Multiple Personalities. As always, this will be a standard IDP format with our traditional IDP scoring (0.5 points per half-tackle, 1 point per solo, 2 points for PDs or FRs, 3 points for sacks, and 4 points for […]

NFL Teams With Favorable Late-Season Schedules: Stack 'Em

Predicting what will happen from one season to the next is hard. But we know what defenses looked vulnerable and could still be vulnerable. So here are what could be favorable matchups when fantasy football crunch time happens.Be sure to check all of our fantasy football rankings for the 2025 playoffs: Quarterback fantasy football rankings […]

Nick Mariano's Salary Cap Draft Strategies and Tips for Fantasy Football (Premium Content)

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Prepare your graph paper and set up those spreadsheets for the entertaining format that is salary cap fantasy football. Also known as auctions, this is where your draft position doesn't lock you into a certain tier of players and it's all about how you […]

Fantasy Football IDP Sleepers and Busts: Defensive Backs Edition

With the offseason finally slipping into our rearview mirror, we at Rotoballer want to give IDP managers an early look at how each defensive position is playing out in the fantasy realm. To do that, we will look at how IDP analysts and managers value players at every defensive position. Based on that, we will […]

Fantasy Football Stock Risers and Fallers After Preseason Week 1

NFL Preseason Week 1 is in the books. Fantasy managers started tackling the games' data to uncover hidden gems. While we enjoyed the fact that football is finally back, it's time to get to work. The noise surrounding NFL teams is deafening but let's look at the who's who after the first week of the […]

Free Fantasy Football Mock Draft Simulator - How To Use The Draft Assistant Tool

We all know fantasy football mock drafts are an ideal method of preparing for upcoming real drafts. But if you would like to get them done very quickly and even complete a few in a shorter time period, there is a solution now available from RotoBaller.com. The Fantasy Football Mock Draft Simulator Tool and Draft […]

Is Deshaun Watson Worth Drafting in 2022? Fantasy Football Draft Outlook

One of the most difficult things to do as a fantasy analyst is to make projections about a player for the upcoming season based off of incomplete information. This has been problematic as it relates to Deshaun Watson due to the NFL's very complicated system when it comes to player discipline. Newly-acquired Cleveland Browns quarterback […]

Introducing RotoBaller’s Standard IDP Scoring System and IDP Players to Target

Earlier this summer, I was given a tough mission. I was asked to come up with an IDP scoring system to use as a standard for doing analysis for RotoBaller. Now we are three weeks away from NFL kickoff. If you haven't set the scoring in your IDP league, you have to get on it. […]

Optimal Running Backs Draft Strategy for 2022 Fantasy Football Drafts

The running back position has been evolving in recent years. While having an elite back is a great way to usually win a fantasy championship, it is important to understand the shift taking place in the NFL landscape when it comes to running backs. Teams are continuing to value the running back position less and […]

Two Strategies to Win Your Fantasy Football League This Year!

We have a very, very interesting and different fantasy year upon us and it is our duty as fake football players to adjust our draft strategies accordingly. That doesn’t mean that you can’t win by executing the well-known draft strategies like balance, Zero RB, value, and so on. But, what it does mean is that […]