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Best Ball Analysis, rankings, and tiers.

Mat Irby
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Overlooked Stats: Nine Undervalued Chain Movers at Wide Receiver

In fantasy football, gaining an edge means going beyond rankings and uncovering predictive stats that go overlooked. Legacy stats like receptions, yards, and past PPR output are solid but are also low-hanging fruit. Every bushy-haired grandpa with a fantasy football magazine who enters your draft room uses these. That limits

Pat Kerrane
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2025 Week 17 Mnemonics

We now know the NFL schedule, including the Week 17 matchups... but do you know all those matchups yet? Can you remember them in an instant? Here are some simple mnemonics to help you quickly recall your bring-back options as the clock ticks down. Thanks to the many user submissions

Mat Irby
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A Framework for Correctly Applying Regression and Studying Outliers from 2024, Volume 3: Wide Receivers and Tight Ends

Welcome to Volume 3—the final edition of the TD regression series. In this edition, we’ll be analyzing WRs and TEs. In Volume 1, we used regression to better understand QB TD production, where high volume creates larger samples, smoothing out volatility and enhancing the signals. In Volume 2,

Pat Kerrane
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2025 DraftKings Best Ball Rankings

DraftKings has launched their 2025 best ball contests, and we have you covered with uploadable rankings. These are a bit less tied to ADP than usual to help you deal with the chaos of the early draft environment. Once ADP settles, we'll bake it in a bit more.

Pat Kerrane
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2025 Underdog Best Ball Rankings

Best Ball Mania is set to launch any minute now... and we have you covered with our Underdog best ball rankings. Typically, the LegUp rankings are tied to ADP to help you scoop as much value as possible. However, if you're jumping into early drafts, you'll

Pat Kerrane
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Dear Travis Hunter, Please Play WR. 2025 Rookie WRs—Tiers 1-2

Since 2020, we've been blessed with a series of very strong WR classes. And many of those impressive prospects have gone on to deliver on their promising profiles. Of course, not every class was as strong as 2020, which included Justin Jefferson, CeeDee Lamb, Jerry Jeudy, Brandon Aiyuk,

Michael Dubner
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Rookie Running Back Risers and Fallers: 2025's Generational Class

Rookie running backs are fantasy football playoff league-winners. Playoff production has an outsized impact on your best ball tournament results, as 70% of your team's expected value comes from Weeks 16-17. The back-weighted production offered by rookie RBs in the weeks that matter most is a feature – not

Pat Kerrane
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Brashard Smith's Underrated Upside. Rookie RBs—Tiers 6-8

The top of the 2025 RB class is very impressive. The premium depth of the class is also unusually strong. The combination of these elements makes it highly likely that talented running backs will be taken too late in this year's draft or fall out of it entirely.