Fantasy Football Target Analysis The Gridiron Experts Wide Receiver Targets Analysis series takes you behind the scenes with the most advanced target information, including receiving fantasy points over expectation (reFPOE), air yards, receiver air conversion ratio (RACR), weighted opportunity rating (WOPR) and other metrics. Adam Thielen led all wide receivers in targets with 19. Jarvis Landry […]
Fantasy Football target recap with Mike Rigz. This article shows off Gridiron Experts stats database and teases readers with some interesting numbers that our members are using.
Looking back on the 2015 fantasy season it is clear that receivers were dominant. Those who went receiver-heavy early in their drafts were more likely to secure a championship than those who decided to chase running backs. The foundation for all of my fantasy research is targets. You may have heard me say this before, but targets create opportunity.
As if fantasy football could not get any wackier, target distribution in Week 7 was one of the more interesting weeks to date. Two Houston receivers were among the top five most target receivers as well as two Buffalo receivers, neither of which were Sammy Watkins or Percy Harvin.
Week 5 was the first time since Week 2 that we have not seen a receiver hit the 20 mark in targets. We also saw Julio Jones receive his season low in target totals and welcomed a new comer to not only the top five in targets but the top targeted receiver of the week. There will be some new names on the target list these week as well as familiar faces. In total, ten receivers were within the top five target receivers.
If Player X had 200 yards receiving while Player Y only had 100 yards then the first player clearly had more yards. But if Player Y produced 100 yards running just 30 routes as opposed to 60, is production from Player Y not more impressive?
Julio Jones went into last week coming off a game in which he was the highest targeted player of the season when he saw 20 targets from Matt Ryan. DeAndre Hopkins knocked him off the target monster pedestal with 22 in Week 4. He now leads the NFL with 61 targets on the season but by the time you read this that number will be even higher.