It’s nice to see the calendar turn to October. Although I talk a lot about victory in September For fantastic football (and that’s still the goal), most of my seasons are played out like this: surviving in September, play more intelligently in October.
We now have four weeks in books. Now we have to know certain things, what players trust, what defenses to really exploit.
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I was also wondering about something else this morning: is the stack dead? Has the stack helped fantasy football managers throughout the season this year?
I was trying to find any large quarter-arre and receiver stack which has actually paid so far, and I came empty. They are all disappointing. Some of them become dead.
Disappointing fantastic batteries
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Bengals: Joe Burrow and Ja’mar Chase (or Tee Higgins)? It’s too depressing to think.
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Vikings: Maybe you have linked Justin Jefferson to JJ McCarthy. No
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Cowboys: Dak Prescott and Ceedee Lamb? Do not happen.
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Jaguars: Jacksonville receptors do not drag Trevor Lawrence to relevance. Heck, maybe they hold Lawrence.
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Eagles: The team is 4-0 and yet we never know when the passenger game will appear. Jalen Hurts did not have a single completion in the second half last week. AJ Brown is obviously unhappy.
Maybe we can cheat a little. Have the best wide-out so far have stackable quarter-rear? Are the best quarters delivered with a wide stackable range?
Elite WRS associated with the production of intermediary QB
Rams: Puka Nacua is the ultimate cheating code receiver in the game at the moment (I was worried about her touching all summer, a socket that turned out to be comic). Does he drag Matthew Stafford a great year? Not really. Weekly grades of Stafford are QB20, QB19, QB14 and QB2. Stafford is only the QB16 in points per game. And it is despite the fact that Nacua is a god and that Davante Adams also plays well.
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Lions: Amon-Ra St. Brown looks like a good answer, WR2. Does Jared Goff arrive for the trip? Not really. Goff was QB1 in week 2, but he was outside the top 20 in the position of his other three games.
Seahawks: Jaxon Smith-Migba is a target pork in Seattle, a rising star. And yet Sam Darnold (great in Efficiency statistics) has a poor newspaper of fantastic results: QB31, QB21, QB10, QB18.
QBS elite production associated with WR intermediate production
Maybe if we examine the best quarters, the investigations will be more beautiful.
Tickets: Josh Allen is QB1, no surprise there. But he has no WR in the Top 25. (The deodorant of Touché A Dalton Kincaid to a Fluisory Te3.)
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Crows: Lamar Jackson is QB2, and now injured. Zay Flowers was correct, WR19, somewhat incoherent. This battery would not kill you, but it does not cover you either glory.
Chiefs: Patrick Mahomes is QB3. Delighted to put it back in our lives. None of its receptors are in the top 30.
Patriots: Drake Maye is QB4. He’s fun, right? New England Wideouts are not fun – all outside the Top 45 (Hunter Henry breaks tight, however).
Are there any lessons?
We have meandered in the plot for enough time. Let’s try to understand what it all means.
Injuries have crushed so many plausible batteries
Burrow, Chase and Higgins were a flying circus last year, locked up and pushed by the bad defense of Cincinnati. Obviously, everything died on the vineyard when Burrow was injured. Lamb Prescott’s dream was derailed by an injury. And it is so strange that the position of ball carrier continues to function reasonably in good health while the quarter and wide The positions were crushed with evils. Jayden Daniels, Brock Purdy, Justin Fields, JJ McCarthy, they all missed time. Malik Nabers and Tyreek Hill left for the year. Injuries retained Terry McLaurin and Mike Evans.
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We can play this game all day. If injuries come for you, it is difficult to survive. It is not a satisfactory answer, but it is always part of the game.
The best QBs are runners, and it harms a battery
We love when our fantastic QB has mobile skills – the Konami code lives forever. But when a quarter obtains a precipitated production (or a precipitated touch), no one else benefits. Of course, it’s good when Hurts plunges from 1, but manager Hurts / Brown would get more than one passage.
Let’s look at This QB ranking again. Running is a must of everyone. Allen and Jackson are dynamic in this area. Mahomes has 130 yards on the ground and two affected, looking for answers on an offense that needs it. Maye has 98 yards and two affected. You know what Hurts does.
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Caleb Williams is QB6, helped by 110 yards on the ground and a score. Daniel Jones has tried three precipitated. Baker Mayfield, playing each cliché as if it was the last, has 129 yards on the ground. Even QB9 Justin Herbert has 93 yards on the ground.
Fields lacked time, but if we use points per game, he’s QB7. We know what is best.
Where are the pocket QB? Lower on the board. Prescott is QB10 (he obtains a boost from the thin defense of Dallas). Jordan Love is QB11. Stafford is QB12. Goff is QB13. Everything is worth it, but the blowing potential is not the same.
Some use trees are too wide for batteries to pay
The Buffalo wide receiver room remains a peloton. The chiefs are not burning anyone with targets. I know that Romeo Doubs experienced three affected last week, but the packers have not passed 100 targets since Adams left the city. We can play this game all day.
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Maybe the + EV batteries were sneaky secondary things
Let’s go back to this WR ranking for a second. Consider some of the surprises. Rome Odunze is WR3. Quentin Johnston is the WR4. George Pickens (unstoppable in week 4) is the WR5. Emeka Egbuka class W7. Deebo Samuel Sr slots. WR10.
These players all have something obvious – none of them was the first fantastic receiver written on their own team.
There was a case of pre-season for Odunze which goes up on the upper chair of Chicago, and this apparently happened. Johnston’s jump over Ladd McConkey is a shock, but after four weeks we have to accept that Johnston looks legitimate. A healthy lamb will always be the alpha in Dallas, but it was fun to see what Pickens could do last week when it is really presented. The chic and polite egbuka has never looked like a recruit. So far, Samuel has benefited from the Runout of McLaurin.
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And I realize that nobody means that aloud, but the fields at Garrett Wilson (WR6) were mainly fun.
Of course, all these first elevators are not intended to stay. Samuel has a regression written everywhere on him. No one thinks that Johnston will be in the top 10 all year round. Pickens will possibly have to share with Lamb, later in the year. I would like the list of all these guys, but keep expectations in a reasonable field.
But I dream of what an improvement in Williams could do with an emerging odunze. And given the way Wilson is the obvious target pork in New York, perhaps Fields and Wilson – working with a particularly narrow tree – could be a collaborative couple that could bear fruit.
And although the tight ends generally do not mark like large in our game, there are QB-TO Nifty combos that thrive. We mentioned Maye and Hunter, and although I don’t fully believe it, Allen and Kincaid. Tyler Warren (Jones) is TE5.
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Maybe stacking is not a big problem (in seasonal leagues)
I understand why stacking is a fashionable word for DFS players, or anyone looking to win a large competition with a high -end payment. You need the simplest plausible path to win in these places, which often means supporting a scenario that has the greatest number of variables required. It’s always a good process.
But I suspect that we have become too happy with seasonal teams. Maybe we should focus more on obtaining good players. And in the quarter -back, it is often a question of finding that the execution of QB – knowing that everything that works will disclose a potential value from a possible battery.
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We have four weeks. We all drive a butterfly. Nobody knows where this butterfly is behind its wings around Halloween, or Thanksgiving, or when the snow begins to fall.
It is the cruel agony of the game. And it is also what makes the game great.
