Fantasy Football: Mining For Tight End Sleepers
C.D. Carter uses the fantasy points per route run metric to see what the 2014 fantasy football season may hold for Marcedes Lewis and Mychal Rivera.
Fantasy Football: Checking in On FPPRR
Rich Hribar examines which running backs have the most fantasy points per route run to find the best PPR waiver wire gems.
Fantasy Football: Daryl Richardson Receives the FPPRR Treatment
The news that was not really news at all was made official on Monday. Daryl Richardson will be the Rams starting running back for week one. This wasn’t much of a surprise to anyone since we knew fellow Rams runner Isaiah Pead will be out for the season opener while serving a one game suspension […]
Fantasy Football: Steven Jackson and FPPRR Failure
Normally the FPPRR Machine is used for the purposes of good.
Over the past month, we here at Sports Jerks have promoted the receiving value of Reggie Bush, Jamaal Charles, Matt Forte and even the all-questionable trio of DeMarco Murray, Darren McFadden and Ryan Mathews.
FPPRR: The All Questionable Team
Darren McFadden? Throws remote. Ryan Mathews? Kicks dog. DeMarco Murray? Cries self to sleep. It can be hard to hide our scorn for certain players who have burned us before. We’ve all been there, kicked to the curb like a jilted lover by a player we thought would carry us over the fake football threshold. Today, […]
Matt Forte: The Trestman FPPRR Effect
Matt Forte’s pass-catching prospects have been the subject of much fantasy football discussion this offseason. It’s high time we run him through the FPPRR Machine. FPPRR is made possible through Pro Football Focus‘s compilation of route running data from 2008-2012. Chicago Bears fans have had to endure a litany of poor play calling over the past decade […]