Shawn Siegele

Author of the original Zero RB article and 2013 NFFC Primetime Grand Champion. 11-time main event league winner. 2015, 2017, 2018 titles in MFL10 of Death.

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Drake Maye Is a Rich Man’s Mix of Josh Allen and Justin Herbert . . . and Should Be the Rookie 1.01

On a recent episode of Ship Chasing, we ended up joking about both multiple universes and my contention that the battle for rookie 1.01 went six players deep. Pat and Pete suggested that I split myself into six individual Shawns and make the case for each. This is that series. And it’s just in time to help you calibrate expectations before the 2024 NFL draft…....

The Rookie 1.01: Marvin Harrison Is Safer at WR Than Caleb Williams at QB (and Has More Upside)

On a recent episode of Ship Chasing, we ended up joking about both multiple universes and my contention that the battle for rookie 1.01 went six players deep. Pat and Pete suggested that I split myself into six individual Shawns and make the case for each. This is that series. And it’s just in time to help you calibrate expectations before the 2024 NFL draft…....

Jayden Daniels Is About to Reset the Scale and Should Be the Rookie 1.01

On a recent episode of Ship Chasing, we ended up joking about both multiple universes and my contention that the battle for rookie 1.01 went six players deep. Pat and Pete suggested that I split myself into six individual Shawns and make the case for each. This is that series. And it’s just in time to help you calibrate expectations before the 2024 NFL draft…....

Caleb Williams Will Soon Be the Overall 1.01: Don’t Miss on Him Now as the Rookie 1.01

On a recent episode of Ship Chasing, we ended up joking about both multiple universes and my contention that the battle for rookie 1.01 went six players deep. Pat and Pete suggested that I split myself into six individual Shawns and make the case for each. This is that series. And it’s just in time to help you calibrate expectations before the 2024 NFL draft…....

Bo Nix Is the QB Teams Should Be Fighting Over

Shawn Siegele explains why the loaded 2024 quarterback class could feature a consolation prize that pays off in a huge way and at a fraction of the price.  Everybody knows that Bo Nix is entering the NFL as an elderly prospect who just spent his final season throwing underneath relentlessly. He looks like the type of pure system QB who usually fails at the professional…...

Is This 2024 Draft Slider About to Follow in Terry McLaurin’s Footsteps?

Shawn Siegele begins the 2024 draft prospects sleeper series with an intriguing wide receiver who goes late in pre-draft best ball contests. Terry McLaurin burst onto the NFL stage as a rookie. During the 2019 season he flashed serious vertical ability, and while he’s never fully emerged as a star — perhaps due to a series of poor quarterbacks pulling the trigger — McLaurin has…...

What Will the First 2 Rounds of Superflex Rookie Drafts Look Like in 2024?

Shawn Siegele explores his projections for the first two rounds of 2024 Superflex rookie drafts. The combine was an absolute blast as always. Although arguably overstated and frequently dangerous, it fills out our understanding of prospect athleticism and occasionally delivers record-breaking performances.  Blair Andrews and Neil Dutton have broken down the three positions where player testing has the most relevance for fantasy projection. Records…...

Superstars and Sleepers: These 2024 RB Prospects Excel in an Undervalued Metric

Shawn Siegele discusses the role of forced missed tackles in NFL draft evaluation and breaks down the top RB prospects in the 2024 class. We’re about to release the first edition of the 2024 RotoViz Rookie Guide, and I’m excited for what will be our best product yet. We’ll be using all of the signature RotoViz rookie metrics, including data from the Box Score Scout…...

Which 2024 RB Draft Prospects Look Like Broken Tackle Monsters?

Shawn Siegele discusses the role of broken tackles in NFL draft evaluation and breaks down the top prospects in the 2024 class. The first edition of the 2024 RotoViz Rookie Guide will be out shortly, and I’m excited for what will be our best product yet. We’ll be using all of the signature RotoViz rookie metrics, as well as a ton of advanced stats from…...

The Gauntlet Returns: How to Navigate Underdog’s Divisional Round ADP

Shawn Siegele explores the nuances of building Underdog playoff rosters now that we’re down to eight teams as we enter the Divisional Round. Wild Card weekend lived up to its branding and delivered in a way that regular season football generally did not in 2023. As Colm and I broke down on Overtime yesterday, the initial wave of playoff games followed our expected script but…...

FFPC Playoff Contest: The RV Tools Give Us Scenarios for Every Team But One (and Not the Obvious One)

Shawn Siegele dives deep into the RotoViz tools and presents his game plan for attacking the 2024 FFPC Playoff contest. Perhaps no fantasy game is quite as fun to enter, discuss, and debate as the FFPC Playoff contest. You get to choose your own players without interference from other drafters, eliminating every excuse. You can win $500,000 in the course of a month instead of…...

All of the Best Options for Exploiting Underdog Playoff ADP Ahead of the Wild Card Round

In the first of a two-part series breaking down the FFPC and Underdog playoff contests, Shawn Siegele helps you build a juggernaut in this week’s Underdog drafts. If you were waiting on the playoff matchups to dive into the Underdog playoff drafts, they’re currently offering six different contest structures to drafters. In today’s exercise, we’ll work through the general tactics, the differences between the contests,…...

Happy New Year! And Congrats to All of the New Fantasy Football Champions

Week 17 didn’t let off the brakes. Shawn Siegele shares some initial thoughts in the aftermath of one of the biggest roller coaster seasons ever.  Fantasy football will break your heart . . . but in the best possible way. Ben and I finished Saturday night in third place overall in the FFPC Main Event. Unfortunately, we crashed and burned on the fantasy season’s final…...

Zero RB Universe: The Championships – Addressing the Tough Matchup Questions for Finals Weekend

Shawn Siegele breaks down the biggest usage takeaways from Week 16 and looks ahead to all of the key matchups in the fantasy finals. Breece Hall’s 43-point outburst helped us in a big way in the Main Events and carried Colm Kelly and me into the FFPC Superflex finals where we’ll face off against a handful of other managers from the RotoViz community. I hope…...

A Week 16 Sunday of Epic Performances Sets Us Up for an Unforgettable Christmas Day

Merry Christmas to everyone in the RotoViz community. I hope you’ve enjoyed the Monday articles, with a bit of a pod emphasis. A large chunk of the draft pods featured teams that went on to a good deal of success, including a BBM semifinal squad with Ben Gretch on Stealing Bananas, a BBM semifinal squad with Peter Overzet on the Best Ball Banana Stand, and…...

Underdog Playoff Strategy – The Best Team You Can Draft Today and What to Watch For on Sunday

Shawn Siegele looks at some Saturday options for loading your Underdog playoff portfolio with the next big movers ahead of Week 16’s Sunday action. Our recommendation last week to load up on the Bills and Rams has paid big dividends for drafters. Buffalo’s pieces made a big jump in ADP, while L.A. is now up to a 72% chance to make the playoffs. The Rams…...

Zero RB Universe Week 16: Breaking Down All of the Top Plays for the Fantasy Semifinals

It was a huge week for RotoViz squads in fantasy tournaments, which makes the semifinals even more fun for our community. In today’s edition of the Zero RB Universe, I’ll again be using the tools like the Weekly Stat Explorer, NFL Player Explorer, Strength of Schedule Streamer, and Advanced Stats Explorer to give a combined picture of usage and matchup. How do the evolving workload…...

The Fantasy Playoffs Arrive and Everything Is Intense and Immediate

“Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn’t take it.” ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Whew! Nothing highlights the agony and the ecstasy of fantasy football quite like a high-scoring playoff week where healthy first-round picks score anywhere from 41 to 0.4, where Josh Allen completes seven passes but Baker Mayfield throws for 381 and 4, where Jaylen…...

Drake Maye Is a Rich Man’s Mix of Josh Allen and Justin Herbert . . . and Should Be the Rookie 1.01

On a recent episode of Ship Chasing, we ended up joking about both multiple universes and my contention that the battle for rookie 1.01 went six players deep. Pat and Pete suggested that I split myself into six individual Shawns and make the case for each. This is that series. And it’s just in time to help you calibrate expectations before the 2024 NFL draft…....

The Rookie 1.01: Marvin Harrison Is Safer at WR Than Caleb Williams at QB (and Has More Upside)

On a recent episode of Ship Chasing, we ended up joking about both multiple universes and my contention that the battle for rookie 1.01 went six players deep. Pat and Pete suggested that I split myself into six individual Shawns and make the case for each. This is that series. And it’s just in time to help you calibrate expectations before the 2024 NFL draft…....

Jayden Daniels Is About to Reset the Scale and Should Be the Rookie 1.01

On a recent episode of Ship Chasing, we ended up joking about both multiple universes and my contention that the battle for rookie 1.01 went six players deep. Pat and Pete suggested that I split myself into six individual Shawns and make the case for each. This is that series. And it’s just in time to help you calibrate expectations before the 2024 NFL draft…....

Caleb Williams Will Soon Be the Overall 1.01: Don’t Miss on Him Now as the Rookie 1.01

On a recent episode of Ship Chasing, we ended up joking about both multiple universes and my contention that the battle for rookie 1.01 went six players deep. Pat and Pete suggested that I split myself into six individual Shawns and make the case for each. This is that series. And it’s just in time to help you calibrate expectations before the 2024 NFL draft…....

Bo Nix Is the QB Teams Should Be Fighting Over

Shawn Siegele explains why the loaded 2024 quarterback class could feature a consolation prize that pays off in a huge way and at a fraction of the price.  Everybody knows that Bo Nix is entering the NFL as an elderly prospect who just spent his final season throwing underneath relentlessly. He looks like the type of pure system QB who usually fails at the professional…...

Is This 2024 Draft Slider About to Follow in Terry McLaurin’s Footsteps?

Shawn Siegele begins the 2024 draft prospects sleeper series with an intriguing wide receiver who goes late in pre-draft best ball contests. Terry McLaurin burst onto the NFL stage as a rookie. During the 2019 season he flashed serious vertical ability, and while he’s never fully emerged as a star — perhaps due to a series of poor quarterbacks pulling the trigger — McLaurin has…...

What Will the First 2 Rounds of Superflex Rookie Drafts Look Like in 2024?

Shawn Siegele explores his projections for the first two rounds of 2024 Superflex rookie drafts. The combine was an absolute blast as always. Although arguably overstated and frequently dangerous, it fills out our understanding of prospect athleticism and occasionally delivers record-breaking performances.  Blair Andrews and Neil Dutton have broken down the three positions where player testing has the most relevance for fantasy projection. Records…...

Superstars and Sleepers: These 2024 RB Prospects Excel in an Undervalued Metric

Shawn Siegele discusses the role of forced missed tackles in NFL draft evaluation and breaks down the top RB prospects in the 2024 class. We’re about to release the first edition of the 2024 RotoViz Rookie Guide, and I’m excited for what will be our best product yet. We’ll be using all of the signature RotoViz rookie metrics, including data from the Box Score Scout…...

Which 2024 RB Draft Prospects Look Like Broken Tackle Monsters?

Shawn Siegele discusses the role of broken tackles in NFL draft evaluation and breaks down the top prospects in the 2024 class. The first edition of the 2024 RotoViz Rookie Guide will be out shortly, and I’m excited for what will be our best product yet. We’ll be using all of the signature RotoViz rookie metrics, as well as a ton of advanced stats from…...

The Gauntlet Returns: How to Navigate Underdog’s Divisional Round ADP

Shawn Siegele explores the nuances of building Underdog playoff rosters now that we’re down to eight teams as we enter the Divisional Round. Wild Card weekend lived up to its branding and delivered in a way that regular season football generally did not in 2023. As Colm and I broke down on Overtime yesterday, the initial wave of playoff games followed our expected script but…...

FFPC Playoff Contest: The RV Tools Give Us Scenarios for Every Team But One (and Not the Obvious One)

Shawn Siegele dives deep into the RotoViz tools and presents his game plan for attacking the 2024 FFPC Playoff contest. Perhaps no fantasy game is quite as fun to enter, discuss, and debate as the FFPC Playoff contest. You get to choose your own players without interference from other drafters, eliminating every excuse. You can win $500,000 in the course of a month instead of…...

All of the Best Options for Exploiting Underdog Playoff ADP Ahead of the Wild Card Round

In the first of a two-part series breaking down the FFPC and Underdog playoff contests, Shawn Siegele helps you build a juggernaut in this week’s Underdog drafts. If you were waiting on the playoff matchups to dive into the Underdog playoff drafts, they’re currently offering six different contest structures to drafters. In today’s exercise, we’ll work through the general tactics, the differences between the contests,…...

Happy New Year! And Congrats to All of the New Fantasy Football Champions

Week 17 didn’t let off the brakes. Shawn Siegele shares some initial thoughts in the aftermath of one of the biggest roller coaster seasons ever.  Fantasy football will break your heart . . . but in the best possible way. Ben and I finished Saturday night in third place overall in the FFPC Main Event. Unfortunately, we crashed and burned on the fantasy season’s final…...

Zero RB Universe: The Championships – Addressing the Tough Matchup Questions for Finals Weekend

Shawn Siegele breaks down the biggest usage takeaways from Week 16 and looks ahead to all of the key matchups in the fantasy finals. Breece Hall’s 43-point outburst helped us in a big way in the Main Events and carried Colm Kelly and me into the FFPC Superflex finals where we’ll face off against a handful of other managers from the RotoViz community. I hope…...

A Week 16 Sunday of Epic Performances Sets Us Up for an Unforgettable Christmas Day

Merry Christmas to everyone in the RotoViz community. I hope you’ve enjoyed the Monday articles, with a bit of a pod emphasis. A large chunk of the draft pods featured teams that went on to a good deal of success, including a BBM semifinal squad with Ben Gretch on Stealing Bananas, a BBM semifinal squad with Peter Overzet on the Best Ball Banana Stand, and…...

Underdog Playoff Strategy – The Best Team You Can Draft Today and What to Watch For on Sunday

Shawn Siegele looks at some Saturday options for loading your Underdog playoff portfolio with the next big movers ahead of Week 16’s Sunday action. Our recommendation last week to load up on the Bills and Rams has paid big dividends for drafters. Buffalo’s pieces made a big jump in ADP, while L.A. is now up to a 72% chance to make the playoffs. The Rams…...

Zero RB Universe Week 16: Breaking Down All of the Top Plays for the Fantasy Semifinals

It was a huge week for RotoViz squads in fantasy tournaments, which makes the semifinals even more fun for our community. In today’s edition of the Zero RB Universe, I’ll again be using the tools like the Weekly Stat Explorer, NFL Player Explorer, Strength of Schedule Streamer, and Advanced Stats Explorer to give a combined picture of usage and matchup. How do the evolving workload…...

The Fantasy Playoffs Arrive and Everything Is Intense and Immediate

“Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn’t take it.” ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Whew! Nothing highlights the agony and the ecstasy of fantasy football quite like a high-scoring playoff week where healthy first-round picks score anywhere from 41 to 0.4, where Josh Allen completes seven passes but Baker Mayfield throws for 381 and 4, where Jaylen…...

Drake Maye Is a Rich Man’s Mix of Josh Allen and Justin Herbert . . . and Should Be the Rookie 1.01

On a recent episode of Ship Chasing, we ended up joking about both multiple universes and my contention that the battle for rookie 1.01 went six players deep. Pat and Pete suggested that I split myself into six individual Shawns and make the case for each. This is that series. And it’s just in time to help you calibrate expectations before the 2024 NFL draft…....

The Rookie 1.01: Marvin Harrison Is Safer at WR Than Caleb Williams at QB (and Has More Upside)

On a recent episode of Ship Chasing, we ended up joking about both multiple universes and my contention that the battle for rookie 1.01 went six players deep. Pat and Pete suggested that I split myself into six individual Shawns and make the case for each. This is that series. And it’s just in time to help you calibrate expectations before the 2024 NFL draft…....

Jayden Daniels Is About to Reset the Scale and Should Be the Rookie 1.01

On a recent episode of Ship Chasing, we ended up joking about both multiple universes and my contention that the battle for rookie 1.01 went six players deep. Pat and Pete suggested that I split myself into six individual Shawns and make the case for each. This is that series. And it’s just in time to help you calibrate expectations before the 2024 NFL draft…....

Caleb Williams Will Soon Be the Overall 1.01: Don’t Miss on Him Now as the Rookie 1.01

On a recent episode of Ship Chasing, we ended up joking about both multiple universes and my contention that the battle for rookie 1.01 went six players deep. Pat and Pete suggested that I split myself into six individual Shawns and make the case for each. This is that series. And it’s just in time to help you calibrate expectations before the 2024 NFL draft…....

Bo Nix Is the QB Teams Should Be Fighting Over

Shawn Siegele explains why the loaded 2024 quarterback class could feature a consolation prize that pays off in a huge way and at a fraction of the price.  Everybody knows that Bo Nix is entering the NFL as an elderly prospect who just spent his final season throwing underneath relentlessly. He looks like the type of pure system QB who usually fails at the professional…...

Is This 2024 Draft Slider About to Follow in Terry McLaurin’s Footsteps?

Shawn Siegele begins the 2024 draft prospects sleeper series with an intriguing wide receiver who goes late in pre-draft best ball contests. Terry McLaurin burst onto the NFL stage as a rookie. During the 2019 season he flashed serious vertical ability, and while he’s never fully emerged as a star — perhaps due to a series of poor quarterbacks pulling the trigger — McLaurin has…...

What Will the First 2 Rounds of Superflex Rookie Drafts Look Like in 2024?

Shawn Siegele explores his projections for the first two rounds of 2024 Superflex rookie drafts. The combine was an absolute blast as always. Although arguably overstated and frequently dangerous, it fills out our understanding of prospect athleticism and occasionally delivers record-breaking performances.  Blair Andrews and Neil Dutton have broken down the three positions where player testing has the most relevance for fantasy projection. Records…...

Superstars and Sleepers: These 2024 RB Prospects Excel in an Undervalued Metric

Shawn Siegele discusses the role of forced missed tackles in NFL draft evaluation and breaks down the top RB prospects in the 2024 class. We’re about to release the first edition of the 2024 RotoViz Rookie Guide, and I’m excited for what will be our best product yet. We’ll be using all of the signature RotoViz rookie metrics, including data from the Box Score Scout…...

Which 2024 RB Draft Prospects Look Like Broken Tackle Monsters?

Shawn Siegele discusses the role of broken tackles in NFL draft evaluation and breaks down the top prospects in the 2024 class. The first edition of the 2024 RotoViz Rookie Guide will be out shortly, and I’m excited for what will be our best product yet. We’ll be using all of the signature RotoViz rookie metrics, as well as a ton of advanced stats from…...

The Gauntlet Returns: How to Navigate Underdog’s Divisional Round ADP

Shawn Siegele explores the nuances of building Underdog playoff rosters now that we’re down to eight teams as we enter the Divisional Round. Wild Card weekend lived up to its branding and delivered in a way that regular season football generally did not in 2023. As Colm and I broke down on Overtime yesterday, the initial wave of playoff games followed our expected script but…...

FFPC Playoff Contest: The RV Tools Give Us Scenarios for Every Team But One (and Not the Obvious One)

Shawn Siegele dives deep into the RotoViz tools and presents his game plan for attacking the 2024 FFPC Playoff contest. Perhaps no fantasy game is quite as fun to enter, discuss, and debate as the FFPC Playoff contest. You get to choose your own players without interference from other drafters, eliminating every excuse. You can win $500,000 in the course of a month instead of…...

All of the Best Options for Exploiting Underdog Playoff ADP Ahead of the Wild Card Round

In the first of a two-part series breaking down the FFPC and Underdog playoff contests, Shawn Siegele helps you build a juggernaut in this week’s Underdog drafts. If you were waiting on the playoff matchups to dive into the Underdog playoff drafts, they’re currently offering six different contest structures to drafters. In today’s exercise, we’ll work through the general tactics, the differences between the contests,…...

Happy New Year! And Congrats to All of the New Fantasy Football Champions

Week 17 didn’t let off the brakes. Shawn Siegele shares some initial thoughts in the aftermath of one of the biggest roller coaster seasons ever.  Fantasy football will break your heart . . . but in the best possible way. Ben and I finished Saturday night in third place overall in the FFPC Main Event. Unfortunately, we crashed and burned on the fantasy season’s final…...

Zero RB Universe: The Championships – Addressing the Tough Matchup Questions for Finals Weekend

Shawn Siegele breaks down the biggest usage takeaways from Week 16 and looks ahead to all of the key matchups in the fantasy finals. Breece Hall’s 43-point outburst helped us in a big way in the Main Events and carried Colm Kelly and me into the FFPC Superflex finals where we’ll face off against a handful of other managers from the RotoViz community. I hope…...

A Week 16 Sunday of Epic Performances Sets Us Up for an Unforgettable Christmas Day

Merry Christmas to everyone in the RotoViz community. I hope you’ve enjoyed the Monday articles, with a bit of a pod emphasis. A large chunk of the draft pods featured teams that went on to a good deal of success, including a BBM semifinal squad with Ben Gretch on Stealing Bananas, a BBM semifinal squad with Peter Overzet on the Best Ball Banana Stand, and…...

Underdog Playoff Strategy – The Best Team You Can Draft Today and What to Watch For on Sunday

Shawn Siegele looks at some Saturday options for loading your Underdog playoff portfolio with the next big movers ahead of Week 16’s Sunday action. Our recommendation last week to load up on the Bills and Rams has paid big dividends for drafters. Buffalo’s pieces made a big jump in ADP, while L.A. is now up to a 72% chance to make the playoffs. The Rams…...

Zero RB Universe Week 16: Breaking Down All of the Top Plays for the Fantasy Semifinals

It was a huge week for RotoViz squads in fantasy tournaments, which makes the semifinals even more fun for our community. In today’s edition of the Zero RB Universe, I’ll again be using the tools like the Weekly Stat Explorer, NFL Player Explorer, Strength of Schedule Streamer, and Advanced Stats Explorer to give a combined picture of usage and matchup. How do the evolving workload…...

The Fantasy Playoffs Arrive and Everything Is Intense and Immediate

“Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn’t take it.” ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Whew! Nothing highlights the agony and the ecstasy of fantasy football quite like a high-scoring playoff week where healthy first-round picks score anywhere from 41 to 0.4, where Josh Allen completes seven passes but Baker Mayfield throws for 381 and 4, where Jaylen…...

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