Fantasy Football Tight End Streaming Week 3: Irv Smith Rounding into Form

Sep 20, 2022

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With two weeks’ worth of information at our disposal, the true crux of the streaming method can begin to mold into shape. Now with a slightly better understanding of how teams will look to employ the tight ends in the receiving game, we can avert our eyes to the waiver wire to find some looked-over players who could benefit our fantasy teams in the short term and, possibly, the long term.

More Week 3 Streaming: QB | K | DST

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

Week 2 Review

We had a moderate week in the streaming game last week, with Logan Thomas finishing in the top-six, surrounded by highly-drafted options Zach Ertz and Dallas Goedert. We’ll try to replicate that success in Week 3.