Stephen Andress
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Perfect Draft: 4th in a 12-Team ESPN PPR League
Heading into the 2018 season, the first dilemma 1.04 owners face is whether to select the last remaining elite volume running back from Todd Gurley, LeVeon Bell, David Johnson, and Ezekiel Elliott or take Antonio Brown, who has finished as the overall WR1 in four consecutive seasons and second the year before that. Gurley and Bell are likely off the board. David Johnson has 2,000-total-yard… → Read More
11 Risky Fantasy Football Players Based on ADP
There are few things more difficult in this life than avoiding temptation. Part of us knows what is tempting us will not make us happy in the long run, but it looks attractive. “Maybe the consequences won’t be that bad,” we tell ourselves. Ultimately, it’s avoiding that temptation which is the best course of action. Fast food. Passive aggressive workplace e-mails. Anybody you meet at a bar after… → Read More
15 NFL.com Fantasy Football Sleepers
For the past few seasons, I have looked at John Paulsen’s rankings here on 4for4 and put them side-by-side with average draft position (ADP) data from each of the major sites that host our beloved fantasy football leagues. → Read More
15 Fantasy Football Sleepers for CBS Leagues
For the past few seasons, I have looked at John Paulsen’s rankings here on 4for4 and put them side-by-side with average draft position (ADP) data from each of the major sites that host our beloved fantasy football leagues. → Read More
13 Fantasy Football Sleepers for CBS Leagues
For the past few seasons, I have looked at John Paulsen’s rankings here on 4for4 and put them side-by-side with average draft position (ADP) data from each of the major sites that host our beloved fantasy football leagues. → Read More
Perfect Draft: 3rd in a 14-Team ESPN PPR League
Heading into the 2018 season, the first dilemma 1.03 owners face is whether to select one of the two remaining elite volume running backs left from Todd Gurley, LeVeon Bell, David Johnson and Ezekiel Elliott or take Antonio Brown, who has finished as the overall WR1 in four consecutive seasons and second the year before that. Gurley and Bell are likely off the board. David Johnson has… → Read More
Perfect Draft: 3rd in a 14-Team PPR ESPN League
Heading into the 2018 season, the first dilemma 1.03 owners face is whether to select one of the two remaining elite volume running backs left from Todd Gurley, LeVeon Bell, David Johnson and Ezekiel Elliott or take Antonio Brown, who has finished as the overall WR1 in four consecutive seasons and second the year before that. Gurley and Bell are likely off the board. David Johnson has… → Read More
15 ESPN Fantasy Football Sleepers
For the past few seasons, I have looked at John Paulsen’s rankings here on 4for4 and put them side-by-side with average draft position (ADP) data from each of the major sites that host our beloved fantasy football leagues. → Read More
15 Yahoo Fantasy Football Sleepers
For the past few seasons, I have looked at John Paulsen’s rankings here on 4for4 and put them side-by-side with average draft position (ADP) data from each of the major sites that host our beloved fantasy football leagues. → Read More
4for4 PPR Rankings vs. FantasyPros Expert Consensus Rankings
4for4’s Director of Forecasting John Paulsen has twice been named FantasyPros' Most Accurate Expert and has finished in the top six in the nation in rankings accuracy seven of the past eight years. That’s the kind of track record that breeds fantasy championships and profitable seasons. → Read More
15 Overvalued or Undervalued FFPC Players
Fantasy football drafts are in full swing and there’s no bigger fantasy tournament than the Fantasy Football Players Championship (FFPC). → Read More
Perfect Draft: 2nd in a 12-Team ESPN PPR League
Heading into the 2018 season, the first dilemma 1.02 owners face is which high-volume running back to select. Todd Gurley is likely off the board, and LeVeon Bell has an overall RB1 season on his resume as well as back-to-back top-three RB performances. David Johnson has 2,000-total-yards upside as well, and he also has an overall RB1 season to his name. Then there’s Ezekiel Elliott, who may… → Read More
Perfect Draft: 1st in a 12-Team ESPN PPR League
Heading into the 2018 season, the first dilemma 1.01 owners face is which high-volume running back to select. Todd Gurley’s monster end to 2017 is still fresh in our minds, but LeVeon Bell has an overall RB1 season on his resume as well as two top-three RB performances each of the past two seasons. David Johnson has 2,000-total-yard upside as well, as he also has an overall RB1 season to his… → Read More
Players Who Are Helped or Hurt by PPR
My favorite word at any fantasy draft party is ‘magazine’. I buy one each season to get into the fantasy football spirit and get fired up for the season to come. But when somebody in my league brings only a magazine for their draft rankings, I instantly know who the dead money is. I feel like Matt Damon in Rounders in those situations. → Read More
How to Pinpoint Fantasy Football Sleepers
Sleepers. We all love them, but how do you find them? It requires a disciplined approach, with an ability to use information and statistics and not coach speak from OTAs, training camp smokescreens, and Twitter practice videos to form opinions on players. Our goal is to find players our league mates pass over because they have ignored critical information that illustrates an opportunity to… → Read More
How Not to Lose Your Fantasy Draft in the First Round
Do you like roulette? Because picking a successful player in the first round of fantasy drafts is roughly the equivalent of betting on red or black in the casino. That’s what the data tells us over the past six seasons. Since 2011, only 44 percent of high-end RB1s from the previous season (RBs who finished RB1–RB6) and 47 percent of high-end WR1s from the previous season (WRs who finished… → Read More
Running Back and Wide Receiver Consistency Trends
You won’t find sleepers here. What you will find are values and, most of all, data to help avoid busts at or near the top of your fantasy draft. Every fantasy draft season the names at the top of drafts are mostly those who performed best the previous season; however, in fantasy football, if our goal is to project forward, then why do so many managers blindly look backwards and put so much… → Read More
Quarterback and Tight End Consistency Trends
Each draft season too many managers behave like broken records, playing the same notes over and over again, trusting a player’s fantasy points from the previous season to be there again. That results in drafting without proper context. There are various ways to seek context in fantasy prognostication: Targets, fantasy points per touch, yards per attempt, etc. → Read More
Fantasy Sleeper Alert: Dolphins WR Kenny Stills
The Miami Dolphins might really stink this year. This writer cannot help but notice the similarities between what happened to Chip Kelly in Philadelphia and what is happening right now with Adam Gase in Miami. An offensive-minded coach who has not found stability at the quarterback position while also jettisoning his two most talented players this past offseason (Jarvis Landry and Ndamukong… → Read More
Packers WR Randall Cobb Screams Fantasy Value
Let’s keep this as simple as possible by first asking a couple questions: 1. Does Aaron Rodgers still play quarterback for the Green Bay Packers? Yes. 2. Does Jordy Nelson still play wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers? No. That creates a huge fantasy opportunity for somebody. Davante Adams is the obvious name this offseason, but he’s also going to cost you a second-round pick. That’s a… → Read More