Important schedule matchups to know for the fantasy playoffs
Joel Smyth breaks down the most important matchups that will impact the fantasy playoffs.
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We're a month away from fantasy playoffs.
Here are the important schedule matchups.
These are the best wide receiver fantasy schedules based purely on the numbers.
Those fantasy defenses adjusted to the schedule, but there is some context missing.
So if we look at the subjective rank, it's more including all that context, like Ricky Pearsall.
And Jennings go down because that indie defense is a lot healthier, and they add in Sauce Gardner That secondary, that 2nd.
Is completely different from being Ranked 30th right now.
Or other guys like Drake London.
He has two dome matchups; the other is in the South.
He doesn't have to deal with that weather.
Chase, J.M., Alec Pierce, a little higher up based on their alignments.
Like Jefferson and Addison, their alignments are exactly the same.
They get Dallas Week 1; thats huge.
And those Eagles receivers are really good schedules, but they do play Washington and Buffalo in that weather.
Outside, December weather, Especially that Week 17 game in Buffalo is kind of worrisome.
These are the bottom ten guys ranked purely on the numbers.
And if we shift it again to that context, this would be my bottom ten.
That doesnt mean theyre cells; I still love Ibiza, Those slot receivers like Rashad Rice are affected a little bit less.
But the bottom two, very little faith in.
The top 10 running backs, That has Bucky Irving as number one.
And I would agree.
It looks incredible.
It's definitely risky.
He returned to practice today.
Theres that hope there, but if he can play in the fantasy playoffs, His worst matchup is Carolina, who's ranked 20th.
Chase Brown set up well in terms of receiving, and Trey Benson, That first game against Houston was pretty bad, but then Atlanta and Cincinnati were better, 29th and 32nd streets.
The bottom ten running backs.
There aren't too many changes here.
J.K. Dobbins, Audrey Harvey are last.
It doesn't look good.
James Cook, especially if you consider that most of his productions are just on the ground.
Cleveland, New England, Philly is a tough run.
And you got other guys down there, like D'Andre Swift; Jalen Warren has that great first-round Matchup.
After that, it gets really hard.
Quarterbacks: here are the top five guys, and the bottom five guys.
Here's how I would rank them: Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrow playing against each other in week one.
Last year, they averaged thirty-three points.
Both teams scored against each other equally.
Golf is also interesting.
Revenge game in that round, 13 different dome games.
The hardest one is against Minnesota, whom we just had nearly 300 yards against.
Bo Nix is who I'd be cautious about.
The Packers are truly tough competitors.
Kansas City is truly a tough team.
That one good matchup is Jacksonville, and their pass defense is much better than Their fantasy quarterback defense strong.
If Jaguars can't score on Denver much, He might be in trouble.
In tight end matchups, They don't matter much, a slight advantage, so I wouldn't be down on Brock Bowers because of This, but it helps Tyler Warren, helps George Kittle.
Tennessee has not the greatest pass defense.
They rank 8th against tight ends.
But that passing defense per play is still pretty bad.
The Colts, Chicago, two pretty good spots for tight ends.
