Data (2022-2024)

We’re going to analyze the previous three years’ worth of data, using the Milly Maker as our dataset. We’ll go over the top-level data before introducing some interesting trends I pulled from the dataset, with an aim of clearly defining the “why” behind some of the recent trends – we’re hunting for causation and not simply looking to be descriptive here. I think it’s easiest to drop the meaningful data in bullet point format to present it in the most digestible manner.

• Of the 51 main slates during the previous three seasons (not counting the last week of the season), 18 winners (35.3%) utilized double-stack primaries (quarterback plus two skill position players)
• 22 winners (43.1%) utilized skinny stacks with no bring-back (quarterback plus one skill position player)
• Correlated bring-backs were present on 17 winning rosters (33.3%)
• Naked QB found its way onto six winning rosters (11.8%)
• TE was included in a primary stack on 12 (23.5%)
• RB was included in a primary stack on six (11.8%) 
• Four total winners (7.8%) utilized team over-stacks (quarterback plus three or more skill position players).·  Three winners (5.9%) included a game over-stack (four or more skill position players from the same game).

Flex utilization

2024

• RB: Nine (52.9%)
• WR: Six (35.3%) 
• TE: Two (11.8%)

2023

• RB: Seven (41.2%)
• WR: Seven (41.2%) 
• TE: Three (17.6%)

2022

• RB: Six (35.3%)
• WR: 10 (58.8%)
• TE: One (5.9%)

2024 notes

QUARTERBACK

• In 2024, there were 30 instances of a QB scoring 30 or more fantasy points. Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrow, Jalen Hurts, and Jayden Daniels were responsible for 17 of those occurrences.
• Jared Goff was the only other QB outside of the top five to score 30 or more fantasy points more than once (twice).
• Of the 34 quarterbacks in 2024 to finish a week at the top two in scoring, only six times did they fail to bring a skill position player with them into the top six at their respective position. Those six instances were accounted for by Josh Allen (three), Jalen Hurts (two), and Jayden Daniels (one).

wr

• Ja’Marr Chase or Tee Higgins finished as a top-six WR a combined nine times in 2024.

Tight End

• There were 30 instances of a TE scoring 20 or more fantasy points in 2024. Only Cole Kmet, George Kittle, and Brock Bowers did so more than once (twice each)
• The list of 20+ fantasy point outings from TEs includes Isaiah Likely, Dallas Goedert, Cole Kmet (twice), Tucker Kraft, George Kittle (twice), Cade Otton, Kyle Pitts, Travis Kelce, Mike Gesicki, Taysom Hill, Jonnu Smith, Brock Bowers (twice), Noah Gray, David Njoku, Trey McBride, and Zach Ertz.
• 10 TEs finished a top-three option at the position in weeks their QB finished as a top-two option (29.4%).·  A TE finished a top-three option at the position in raw scoring the same week a WR did from the same team six times when their QB was a top-two option (17.6%).

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