2026 DraftKings Best Ball Rankings
DraftKings has launched its Best Ball Millionaire tournament (with $3 million to first) and a variety of other best ball tournaments. We have you covered with rankings, updated daily.
2026 Underdog Best Ball Rankings
Best Ball Mania 7 is live, and we have you covered with rankings. These will be updated daily throughout the summer. Happy drafting!
2026 Legendary RB Upside in the Dead Zone
Last week, I published my 2026 Legendary RB Scenarios for the first two rounds of the draft. 2026 Legendary RB Scenarios - Round 1Five years ago, I wrote an article on Rotoworld called Don’t Draft an Early Round RB Without Legendary Upside. And as a follow-up to that article,
Mat Irby's Apex Score: Tight Ends
If you’ve been sticking with me lately, you’ve seen me slowly roll out a metric I’m calling Apex Score. The idea behind Apex Score is to boil indicators of future upside down to a single number. This, alone, may be foolish. I’ve gotten really deep into
An MRI on ADP: Fantasy Football Medical Analysis
I’m excited to introduce LegUp’s newest author, Artrell, a sports medicine trained physician with multiple years of experience at the D1 level of collegiate athletics. This summer, Artrell has been helping us behind the scenes to dial in our injury input for the Sidekick and LegUp ranks. With
Mat Irby's Apex Score: Quarterbacks
In the last two weeks, I’ve written damn near 15,000 words about WRs and RBs, going round-by-round to compare Apex Scores to ADP in search of market inefficiencies. This time, I’m doing things differently. * Introducing Apex Score: Quantifying Upside and Beating Redraft ADP at Running
2026 Legendary RB Scenarios - Round 2
If you're looking for Part 1 of my 2026 legendary RB scenarios, or if you stumbled across this article and are wondering what legendary RB scenarios even are... start here: 2026 Legendary RB Scenarios - Round 1Five years ago, I wrote an article on Rotoworld called Don’t Draft
2026 Legendary RB Scenarios - Round 1
Five years ago, I wrote an article on Rotoworld called Don't Draft an Early Round RB Without Legendary Upside. And as a follow-up to that article, I detailed whether or not that year's highly drafted RBs would turn in legendary seasons or become silent killers.
Mat Irby's Apex Score: Wide Receiver
Apex Score vs. Redraft Market ADP Vol. 2: Wide Receivers Last week, I introduced Apex Score using my beta RB model, which correlated to future Apex results better than any other common Primary or advanced stat in fantasy analysis (but with the caveat that this is sort of eating its
