Streaming Tight Ends: Week 5 Targets

Oct 05, 2021

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Now that we are a month into the fantasy football season, we're beginning to accrue enough data points to stream onesie positions with utmost confidence. With our priors strengthening, we can become more confident in exactly what defenses we should be targeting and why. In our case here, teams that have consistently been a sieve to the tight end position will give us clues as to who we should be aiming for off of the waiver wire.

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For streaming purposes, 4for4’s Schedule-Adjusted Fantasy Points Allowed (aFPA) is a metric we rely heavily on to determine weekly matchup strength. As the season continues to progress and more data is available, aFPA becomes more and more reliable, using rolling 10-week data. Targets and efficiency metrics are also considered when choosing weekly streamers.

To provide advice you can actually implement, candidates for streaming must be rostered in no more than 40% of Yahoo! fantasy leagues.

Week 4 Review

Last week’s cover boy, Dawson Knox, exploded for us, finding the end zone twice and finishing the week as fantasy’s TE2. Maybe the Pat Freiermuth call was a little overzealous in hindsight, but it may be grasping for straws playing anybody at all in that Steelers offense. It was a decent week overall, let’s see if we can stop it moving into Week 5.