Category: 2023

You Either Drafted Raheem Mostert, or Your Draft Was Just OK – Fantasy Games Won (FGW) Week 6 Reaction

What is FGW? Check out the full lowdown here or watch the video here.

TL;DR – FGW is the number of Head-to-Head fantasy football matchups a player has won his team, on average. dFGW is FGW adjusted for draft ADP rank.

Raheem Mostert was roughly a 9th round pick in 2023 Fantasy Drafts. Through Week 6 he has produced 0.64 more wins than the average starting Fantasy RB. 7 other players drafted after DJ Moore (52nd ranked player by ADP) have net positive Fantasy Games Won through 6 weeks (Aiyuk, Montgomery, Mike Williams, Kamara, Evans, Swift, and Tua). Combined, they have provided 0.55 more wins than average starters at their position.

The question of did you have a good draft from rounds 6-10 comes down to this: Did you draft Mostert?

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Justin Jefferson DID NOT Pass Cooper Kupp On The All-Time List – Fantasy Games Won (FGW) Week 5 Reaction

What is FGW? Check out the full lowdown here or watch the video here.

TL;DR – FGW is the number of Head-to-Head fantasy football matchups a player has won his team, on average. dFGW is FGW adjusted for draft ADP rank.

And just like that, Justin Jefferson stopped being a Fantasy Football machine.

Last week I mentioned that Justin Jefferson was about to pass Cooper Kupp for the lead in the All-Time FGW Ranks. Then, something happened that we did no expect…

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Reminder: I’m a Recurring Contributor to the Fantasy Football Franchise Podcast

Every week, usually on Tuesday nights, I join Branden Timm on the Fantasy Football Franchise podcast. We do a quick recap of the week that just ended, and I try to pronounce everyone’s name right.

Last week we recapped the first quarter of the season, and that episode is up on my YouTube channel:

Hope you’ll check it out!

Joe Burrow Just Had The Worst 4-Game Stretch In Fantasy Football Since 2020 – Fantasy Games Won (FGW) Week 4 Update

What is FGW? Check out the full lowdown here or watch the video here.

TL;DR – FGW is the number of Head-to-Head fantasy football matchups a player has won his team, on average. dFGW is FGW adjusted for draft ADP rank.

Joe Burrow fantasy owners are so deep in the standings that it’s not clear whether their burrows are actually just graves.

Weeks 1-4 have been so bad for Joe, that I thought it was worth it to look back at the worst 4-game stretches since I started tracking FGW in 2021. The results aren’t pretty for Mr. Dirt…

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De’Von Achane Was The 71st Best Fantasy Asset In Week 3 – Fantasy Games Won (FGW) Week 3 Reaction

What is FGW? Check out the full lowdown here or watch the video here.

TL;DR – FGW is the number of Head-to-Head fantasy football matchups a player has won his team, on average. dFGW is FGW adjusted for draft ADP rank.

Week 3 featured more jublant Dolphins than an Aaron Rodgers self-hypnosis tape.

But before we get into Football’s resident chirping sea mammals, about all the chirping I invited on Reddit with last week’s column…

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Ja’Marr Chase, The Most Talented WR in Football, Has Been The Worst Fantasy Asset of 2023 – Fantasy Games Won (FGW) Week 2 Update

What is FGW? Check out the full lowdown here or watch the video here.

TL;DR – FGW is the number of Head-to-Head fantasy football matchups a player has won his team, on average. dFGW is FGW adjusted for draft ADP rank.

Going into 2023, I had a slightly uncommon #1 player on my fantasy board. I don’t have a projections model, so I had basically every other projections model to go by, but with my reasoning layered on top:

  • I didn’t like McCaffrey at the top spot because of his injury history and the risk of sharing the load in SF more than he ever did in Carolina
  • I didn’t like Ekeler at the top spot because I thought he took a bit of a step back in 2023, and it felt odd taking a player 1st in 2023 that was a worse prospect than his 3rd overall pick 2022 version (I know I’m falling for baseline/anchoring fallacy here, but I digress)
  • Between Justin Jefferson and Ja’Marr Chase, I believe Chase is the most talented WR in the NFL, and has more upside than Jefferson. So Chase was my pick.

Before we get into the pungent season that Chase has had so far, let’s dig into that “most talented” claim…

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Tyreek Hill Outruns The Week 1 Buzzsaw – Fantasy Games Won (FGW) Week 1 Update

I haven’t been through an emotional roller coaster like that since my youngest son had the cord around his neck.

Video version for the eyeball crowd

I’m writing this Tuesday morning and, for those that don’t know, I’m a Jets fan. (My fantasy week 1 was rough, but not THAT rough.) Now it’s time to write the first Weekly Update post of the year with all the emotion vaporized out of me, as if someone microwaved the water supply.

Dr. Cobalt isn’t here right now. But if you’d like to leave a message…

Time to send that buzzsaw to R&D for post-race inspection. And I guess I’ll have to find other sources of emotion to adequately evaluate everything that has happened…

Full explanation for FGW HERE.

Who Won The Week?

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Don’t Use Points To Judge Fantasy Football Value – Fantasy Games Won Launch 2023

To all of you that are new here – welcome to Fantasy Games Won 2023! Fantasy Games Won (FGW) is the both the name of a metric I invented in 2021 (officially, anyway) and an accompanying series of blog posts I started up at the same time.

Well, series of videos as well. As of today I am live on YouTube!

If you prefer video to my attempt at written English, here ya go.

There are some small tweaks to the metric this year. But before I get into those, let’s recap on what this metric is trying to do and how it accomplises that goal.

I described this once back in 2021 on launch, but I will do what’s new here.

Why Do We Need Fantasy Games Won?

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I Was On A Podcast [The Fantasy Football Franchise] And I Messed Up De’Von Achane’s Name

I Was On A Podcast [The Fantom Fantasy Sports Football Podcast] Talking Aaron Rodgers and NFL Draft Recap