
2025 Fantasy Football Draft Guide: Where To Target Each Position
One of the great things about fantasy football is that every year is different, and if you simply deploy the same strategy and approach to your drafts every season, you're probably not going to give yourself the best chance to win every year. Everyone has their favorite way to approach drafts, and there are multiple […]

The 8 Biggest Mistakes Fantasy Football Players Make: Kasey's Expert Advice and Analysis (2025)
What makes fantasy football so much fun is the lessons you learn as you play. Sure, you can do all the research and suffer from carpal tunnel from all the mock drafts you've participated in, but nothing compares to "learning on the job". Every season, we deal with our fair share of "never again" moments. […]

Identifying Wide Receiver Fantasy Football Breakouts: Build-A-Breakout Workshop
Welcome back for this next installation of my RotoBaller breakout series — it's been a blast, and I'm learning a bunch while we're at it. By now, we're three workshop visits deep and on the verge of fantasy glory—no stopping what cannot be stopped. In case you've missed it, we're spending August at the Build-A-Breakout […]

The Best Fantasy Football Team Names - 50 Funny Team Names for 2025
Football season is creeping up on us, and before we know it, we'll all be knee deep in fantasy drafts. Having a good team name is arguably more important than drafting a winning team when it comes to fantasy football. You can go any way that you desire with your team name, but some of […]

Fun Ways To Determine Your Fantasy Football League's Draft Order
The most wonderful time of the year has arrived! No, not Christmas. It's fantasy football draft season! The time to hang out with loved ones as you draft the team that is going to decimate each and every other one in your league. The time to trash talk your opponents and make them feel worthless. […]

NFL Survivor League Picks - Expert Strategies To Win Your Knockout Pool (2025)
The start of the 2025 NFL regular season is less than a month away, and the fervor that football enthusiasts are feeling for the upcoming season is growing by the day. At RotoBaller, we continue to develop our tools and content to help you win your fantasy football leagues of all formats. One way to […]

Scott Engel's Fantasy Football Draft Review: Scott Fish Bowl 15 Picks and Analysis (2025)
My 2025 draft recently concluded in the legendary Scott Fish Bowl, the largest and most notable tournament in the fantasy football industry. The competition includes over 400 leagues and nearly 5,000 teams. This year, the theme was divisions named after favorite sports teams, so I competed in a 12-team league in the Seattle Seahawks division, […]

Best Ball Fantasy Football Mock Draft - RotoBaller Staff Strategies, Roster Construction, Sleepers, Value Picks
You've probably heard your favorite fantasy football analyst say it: "I'd only draft that guy in Best Ball". What does that mean, really? When someone says they'd only take a player in Best Ball, they're usually referring to players who are prone to spike weeks. That's one of the biggest reasons Best Ball can be […]

Fantasy Football All-Bench RB Strategy: Round Out Your Draft With These Backup Running Backs (2025)
Every year, I write about the merits of an #AllBenchRB strategy during the season. It is a strategy employed in fantasy football leagues that can lead to success for fantasy players if implemented correctly. Then I had an epiphany when @RealTalkRaph said to me, “Brett, your All-Bench RB strategy would work for the draft!” Mind […]

Fantasy Football Best Ball Cheat Sheet – Tiered Rankings, Sleepers & Strategy (2025)
Getting the best stacks in best ball is one of the easiest ways to make your team as competitive as possible. Every year, specific quarterback and receiver combinations produce multiple massive boom games that propel best ball teams to glory. Additionally, examining each team's schedule and identifying the teams they face can also give you […]

The RB Dead Zone In Fantasy Football: What Is It And Do You Need To Avoid It?
The running back dead zone examines players going in the early to middle rounds at the position. We'll use Rounds 4 through 8 as arbitrary markers for running backs going in Fantasy Football Players Championship (FFPC) leagues. However, these running backs have been pushed up the draft board, and they might be riskier than anticipated. The […]

Is the Fantasy Football Late-Round QB Strategy Still Viable in 2025?
Now that the calendar has flipped to July, it is time to start locking in on the 2025 fantasy football season. Over the next few months, fantasy managers will pore through endless amounts of information through articles and podcasts. Some of that information will be more focused on individual players. However, the real value lies […]

Fantasy Football Mock Draft for 2025: (12 Teams, Single-QB) - Round 1
The first round is the best part of fantasy drafts. These are the players who are going to lead your team throughout the year and could carry you to a potential fantasy championship. However, that doesn't mean these early-round players can't bust in fantasy football. Just look at Christian McCaffrey, Tyreek Hill, and Breece Hall […]

Is the Zero RB Strategy Viable in 2025? Expert Fantasy Football Draft Analysis
The Zero RB draft strategy in fantasy football, in which fantasy managers prioritize drafting multiple wide receivers before selecting a single running back in their drafts, has been very popular in recent years. It's regularly touted as the best strategy to build league-winning teams. This isn't some stroke of genius, though. It's obvious that when […]

Scott Fish Bowl 15 Fantasy Football Draft Strategy Guide: Expert Tips and Advice
With the first selection of the 2025 Scott Fish Bowl, the Texas State Fighting Armadillos select Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver/cornerback Travis Hunter. Perhaps 1.01 for Hunter is a bit of a stretch, but it’s not ridiculous. Dick Steele said it best, “Crazy is walking down the street with half a cantaloupe on your head, muttering, […]

Superflex Fantasy Football Draft Strategies: Is QB-QB Still the Best Start in Dynasty? (2025)
NFL OTAs are underway, which means the start of the 2025 NFL season is drawing near. While the beginning of the season is still a few months away, this is a very popular time of year for dynasty startup drafts. If you’ve never played dynasty football before, now is a great time to start. There […]

Fantasy Football Zero RB Strategy - 4 Running Back Sleepers to Target and Draft (2025)
Zero-RB was possibly the worst strategy you could have followed in fantasy football drafts last season. If you missed out on a few key players, like Cincinnati Bengals running back Chase Brown, you likely would have regretted your choices greatly. This is primarily due to the rash of injuries that struck many of the league's […]

Superflex Fantasy Football Mock Draft: Expert Picks from the No. 8 Slot
The fantasy football world is knee-deep in its dynasty leagues. Whether they are focused on rookie or startup drafts, few fantasy players are thinking about redraft leagues at this point in the offseason. However, it’s never too early to prepare for your redraft leagues. The best way to prepare for your fantasy leagues is by […]

How To Master NFL Survivor Pools: Top Strategies to Win Your Survivor Leagues
Key Takeaways Survivor Pool Basics: NFL Survivor Pools are elimination contests where participants pick one team to win each week, but can’t reuse teams throughout the season. A single loss eliminates your entry. Winning Strategies: Success in Survivor Leagues requires strategic planning, like mapping out picks weeks in advance, avoiding popular or "chalk" selections to […]

FFPC Fantasy Football Dynasty Startup Strategies And Tips For 2025
FFPC, or the Fantasy Football Players Championship, is a website and fantasy football league hosting service that allows fantasy football managers to raise the stakes of their leagues and put significant money on the line. Considering how much you can bet on these leagues, there's a lot to win (or lose) by approaching startups with […]

Scott Engel's Fantasy Football Mock Draft - The King's 2025 Offseason One-Man Mock
Throughout the fantasy football offseason, I am constantly revising player outlooks and potential rankings based on the latest news, player movement, and ongoing research. This is the first of my offseason one-man mock drafts, where I pick players for every one of 12 teams in the first four rounds of a projected seasonal PPR draft. […]

Dynasty Fantasy Football Strategy - How To Rebuild Your Roster
It's never easy going from worst to first in Dynasty fantasy football. But it's possible. Just because something isn't easy doesn't mean it's not possible, and certain strategies can help you achieve what might seem impossible at first -- going from the worst team in your league to making a championship run. There are a […]

Dynasty Superflex Startups: Fantasy Football Strategy Guide
While the NFL regular season might be over, if you're a dynasty enthusiast you know what that means. A time to sit back and take a 30,000-foot view of the current NFL landscape and how you predict things will play out for all 32 teams heading into 2025. It's a part of what makes dynasty […]

Who Are the Top 5 Picks for 2025 Fantasy Football Drafts?
The 2024 NFL regular season is finally over, and it's now time to look back on what happened and try to ascertain how that will affect rankings next year. Of course, there's plenty of time until the 2025 regular season kicks off, as we haven't even made it through the playoffs yet. Still, it's extremely […]

Fantasy Football Lessons Learned - Things I Missed On This Year
The 2024 fantasy football season is now complete. As with every season, there were a lot of hits and misses in terms of my preseason takes and expectations. There are always going to be big whiffs and huge wins. It’s the nature of the game. However, we’re not trying to be right 100% of the […]

Fantasy Football Lessons Learned - Things I Was Right About This Year
The 2024 fantasy football season is over. Now is the time to look back to see what we got right and wrong. Every wrong doesn't mean we were wrong; every right doesn't mean we were right. Technically, it does, but that shouldn't always be the takeaway. Sometimes, our process was correct, but bad luck just […]

Ranking the Best Fantasy Football QB Seasons of All-Time
Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson just had one of the greatest fantasy football seasons of all time, but how does it stack up to the other great seasons from quarterbacks? Let's take a look at the 10 best fantasy football seasons ever from quarterbacks. Below are the 10 best fantasy football quarterback seasons of all […]

2024 Fantasy Football Awards - RotoBaller Writers Picks
Greetings and welcome to the official 2024 Fantasy Football Awards Show, presented by RotoBaller. These awards are voted on by RotoBaller's NFL writers, with some goofy ones thrown in alongside the expected. We are here to celebrate the good, the bad, and the downright frustrating. Once again, I'm your host, Nick Mariano. We won't have […]

Five Fantasy Football Strategies To Help You Win NFL 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 brand new fantasy football team(s) of […]