RosterWatch Week 5 Matchup Tool Now Available
Welcome back.
This is a proprietary weekly tool provided by RosterWatch for our PRO community.
It is designed to be a decision-making tool for gauging the defensive opponents your fantasy players face. If you are new to this, our time-tested and most popular flagship in-season tool, the instructions for use couldn’t be simpler, and can be found below.
DO NOT RELY ON “FANTASY POINTS AGAINST” as your primary indicator for player matchups ever again. It is a flawed metric, as you’ll see, which will cause you heartache and struggle.
The rankings represented here are derived via a proprietary algorithm which takes into account not only traditional “fantasy points against” metrics (schedule-adjusted after 3 weeks of play), but also (and most importantly) weighted averages and medians of separate individual player and defensive-unit scouting grades for members of the 2022 unit that will be run-stopping, pass-rushing, or covering against the position in question, along with other analytic trends including projected game-script, game-flow/pace, sportsbook indicators, volume of total projected snaps and much, much, more.
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INSTRUCTIONS:
To use the tool, think about your fantasy player.
Let’s say you roster Jets RB Breece Hall and would like to see how he matches up against the defense he faces this week.
First, look down the list and find the Jets (Hall’s team). You will see that the Jets’ opponent (OPP) is the Denver Broncos in Week 5, and there are four color-coded cells in the horizontal columns marked “OPP vs. QBs,” “OPP vs. RBs,” “OPP vs. WRs” and “OPP vs. TEs.”
These are the OPPONENT’S (in this case the BRONCOS’) OFFICIAL ROSTERWATCH MATCHUP RANKINGS AGAINST THESE GIVEN POSITIONS.
They are not the rankings for the JETS, but rather, for the OPPONENT THEY FACE IN THIS GIVEN WEEK (the THE BRONCOS). In the “OPP vs. RBs” cell for the Jets, you’ll notice a big, blue ‘No. 1’. This means that Hall faces our best possible matchup for opposing RBs in Week 5 (the Broncos). This is a great indicator for fantasy managers of Hall. It is also a positive one for those thinking of rostering him in DFS contests.
Repeat the same process for other players on your roster as you are trying to break ties regarding which players to start and which to sit in season-long leagues. Also use it to identify which upside-plays to roster in DFS contests based on matchup.
With the launch of the online tool, you can now sort by any column: Vegas line, over/under, and matchup ranks vs. each position for easy reference. The Vegas lines are updated hourly for your reference and research. Please note that matchup ratings can change slightly through the week as lines and totals shift, or as injuries to key defensive personnel occur.
1 is the best (easiest) matchup, 32 is the worst (toughest).
COLOR-CODES
(you like blue matchups best)
BLUE: Best Matchups
LIGHT BLUE: Borderline Top Matchups
WHITE: Neutral Matchups
LIGHT RED: Borderline Bottom Matchups
RED: Worst Matchups
++RW Proprietary Algorithm
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Defense Q — I drafted the 49ers defense thinking i was getting a top D (based on many pundits). And the guys a CBS sports continue to rank at the top. In practice, based on my league scoring they ranked 20th with a mere 16 points compared to Cowboys at 53.
Q should i dump the 49ers? D’s that are available – Ravens, Seahawks, Bucs ,Lions, Jets
What do you think? Pick up the Ravens and start streaming Ds?
thanks
you are fine to stream defenses if one is letting you down that you expected big things from.
10 team full PPR 6pt TD and 1pt completion.
– Goff or Fields
– Goff or A Richardson
Thank you
Goff and A Rich for me. Although our consensus model has Fields one spot ahead of Goff I don’t care. Not risking it with that guy over Goff at home
FULL PPR
1 Flex
B. Hall, D. Pierce, J. Addison, Z. Flowers
IT’s a Breece week for me!
10 team Dynasty PPR (6pt Passing TDs): Year 5
1 QB, 2 RB, 2 WR, 2 FLEX, 1 TE (20 Bench)
QB: Anthony Richardson, Kirk Cousins, Trey Lance
RB: Bijan Robinson, Breece Hall, Travis Etienne, Kendre Miller, Kenneth Gainwell, Jeffery Wilson, Ty Chandler, Keaontay Ingram, Keaton Mitchell
WR: A.J. Brown, Jahan Dotson, Nico Collins, D.J. Moore, Tank Dell, Elijah Moore, Rashid Shaheed, Josh Palmer, Darnell Mooney, Tyler Boyd, D.J. Chark, Cedric Tillman, Parris Campbell
TE: Hunter Henry, Juwan Johnson, Noah Fant
Finally competitive after tanking the last 2 years! Just want to check in with y’all and see if I should be looking to make any moves to help my team make a championship run finally! My team is 3-1 but only 5th in total points so appreciate any help in advance! I know my biggest weakness is probably TE but any trade ideas in general?
team is great. If you can sell super high on Nico, I might explore that.
LMK if you like this trade!
I got Burrow and gave up Richardson. I have Kirk Cousins as my other QB. I also have Tee Higgins to pair with Burrow
Don’t like it, wish I had better news!
Have cowboys D this week, need to bench them for a streamer. Options are:
Best available are between the Jets and Texans.
Next conundrum, it’s a 5 man bench. 1/2 PPR, drop Michael Wilson or Gainwell? TIA