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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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A Decade Ago I Started Mocking “Devy” Drafts – Here’s How 2017 Went

Devy League:
A Fantasy League Where You Draft "Developmental/Devy" Players, i.e. players that are not yet declared for the NFL Draft

If you want to go back to beyond “a decade ago” – see here for the 2012 opening piece.

So as to keep the quality of content high, I’m going to hold 2018+ until next offseason. So we will probably be back before The Winds of Winter.

To bring everyone up to speed…

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A Decade Ago I Started Mocking “Devy” Drafts – Here’s How 2016 Went

Devy League:
A Fantasy League Where You Draft "Developmental/Devy" Players, i.e. players that are not yet declared for the NFL Draft

If you want to go back to beyond “a decade ago” – see here for the 2012 opening piece. Picking up the pace here as I only published the most recent one last week!

To bring everyone up to speed…

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

A Decade Ago I Started Mocking “Devy” Drafts – Here’s How 2015 Went

Devy League:
A Fantasy League Where You Draft "Developmental/Devy" Players, i.e. players that are not yet declared for the NFL Draft

If you want to go back to beyond “a decade ago” – see here for the 2012 opening piece. Picking up the pace here as I only published the most recent one last week!

To bring everyone up to speed…

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A Decade Ago I Started Mocking “Devy” Drafts – Here’s How 2014 Went

Devy League:
A Fantasy League Where You Draft "Developmental/Devy" Players, i.e. players that are not yet declared for the NFL Draft

If you want to go back to beyond “a decade ago” – see here for the 2012 opening piece. I also only took 85 days to go from installment 2 to installment 3, so I met my in-jest 89 day deadline! Let’s get this train rolling!

To bring everyone up to speed…

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

A Decade Ago I Started Mocking “Devy” Drafts – Here’s How 2013 Went

Devy League:
A Fantasy League Where You Draft "Developmental/Devy" Players, i.e. players that are not yet declared for the NFL Draft

I started this series up 3 months ago – see here for the 2012 opening piece. Now here we are, 3 months later, with nary a week until the 2023 NFL Draft. Let’s get back on track!

To bring everyone up to speed…

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