Fantasy Football Rankings - Divisional Round
- Kev Wheeler
- 5 days ago
- 2 min read
It may seem crazy to publish fantasy football rankings this week, but as we are putting together DFS line-ups and drafting Battle Royal drafts on Underdog we realized that some rankings could be useful. Keep in mind the Divisional Round Fantasy Football rankings are subject to change after the Saturday games are completed.
Divisional Round Schedule
Saturday, January 17th
Buffalo Bills at Denver Broncos 4:30pm ET
San Francisco 49ers at Seattle Seahawks 8:00pm ET
Sunday, January 18th
Houston Texans at New England Patriots 3:00pm ET
Los Angeles Rams at Chicago Bears 6:30pm ET
Fantasy Football Weekly Rankings
When examining these fantasy football weekly rankings, take into consideration that we are really only looking at positional ranks, not flex or overall rankings. When it comes to who you start in the flex a lot will depend on your specific league rules and roster construction. If players are ranked within 3 spots of each other the difference between them is negligible, they are expected to score the same amount of points, in those cases go with your gut, flip a coin, or join our Discord Channel.
Quarterback
Running Back
The Process
My usual process is to only take data from the previous six weeks, I truly believe anything older than that holds little relevance unless there is a player returning from injury or some reason to discount the newer information. In Week 2 we have very little information we can be confident in. The last six weeks of the previous season can give some indication, and the preseason could provide a glimpse of what’s to come or it could be a mirage.
Wide Receiver
Tight End
Kicker
Jaguars have a guy who easily nails kicks from 65+ yards. Bills will either have an elder millennial kicker with a serious quad injury or a journeyman kicker signed off the street.
Defense/Special Teams
News or Hype?
The best way to start our weekly approach is to look at implied team totals based on Vegas odds and adjust from there. We need to pay attention to DFS articles and individual player prop-bets (over/under) to get a good idea of how to project median outcomes. With six weeks of data we can begin to examine the individual matchups some players may have, but we can't overreact to that data. There are so many changes from week-to-week in the NFL the best we can do is project a range of outcomes. Picking the outliers is what wins championships.
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