🏈 Fantasy Playbook: Week 9 lineup locks, more

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Mike ClayOct 30, 2025, 07:42 AM ET
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Welcome to The Playbook for Week 9, which kicks disconnected Thursday with the Ravens astatine the Dolphins.

This file features people projections, over/unders, triumph probabilities, and, of course, easy digestible phantasy advice for seasonlong leagues and DFS. This usher should assistance you with each sorts of decision-making, including sit/start, last-minute waiver adds and lineup choices.

Additionally, we person folded the Shadow Reports, antecedently a abstracted column, into the game-by-game breakdowns here. Using our play-by-play data, we're capable to place antiaircraft schemes and wherever each wide receiver and cornerback lines up connected each play. By tracking these WR/CB matchups, including imaginable shadiness situations, we tin connection the champion projections, rankings, sit/start proposal and waiver ligament suggestions each week.

If you privation a much elaborate look astatine immoderate of this data, beryllium definite to cheque retired the play Shadow Reports: WR vs. CB Cheat Sheet. You tin besides instrumentality a look astatine the latest update of each team's rest-of-season strength of schedule.

All of this proposal is centered connected 12-team PPR leagues with comparatively modular scoring and lineup settings (1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 flex, 1 K, 1 D/ST), though I'll often notation "shallow" oregon "deep" leagues for immoderate starters. The charts amusement each players who person been projected for astatine slightest 6.0 phantasy points this week, arsenic good arsenic each D/STs. "Matchup" is automatically determined utilizing a proprietary metric that factors successful earthy and volume-adjusted phantasy points allowed to each presumption by the opposing defence this season.

(Editor's note: Projections and rankings volition align astir perfectly, but sometimes erstwhile a projection is close, a subordinate mightiness beryllium ranked somewhat higher oregon little due to the fact that of different factors, including upside oregon risk. This file is taxable to updates during the weekend, though astatine the precise minimum, rankings volition beryllium updated connected the site and projections volition ever beryllium updated wrong the crippled starring up to kickoff.)