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Week 4’s Most Accurate Fantasy Experts

Week 4’s Most Accurate Fantasy Experts

It’s hard to imagine that we’re nearly 1/4th of the way through the NFL season. While the fast movement of the schedule is a sobering thought, the good news is that each passing week gives us more data from which to evaluate the fantasy experts. That should translate to more informed start/sit decisions going forward based on our accuracy data.

So which experts nailed their picks this past week? We’ll examine by taking a look at our top 10 standings. You can also view our Year-to-Date leaderboard to see how the competition of 130+ experts is shaping up.

Week 4 Accuracy Results

Top 10 Experts – Overall Leaderboard*
 Rank  Expert  PAY™
 1.  Donald Gibson – Football.com  59.9%
 2.  Brett Talley – The Fantasy Fix  58.9%
 3.  Eric Moody – FFLockerRoom  58.2%
 4.  Zach Greubel – Gridiron Experts  58.1%
 5.  Jake Ciely – RotoExperts  58.0%
 6.  The FFGhost – Dynasty League Football  57.8%
 7.  Maurile Tremblay – Footballguys  57.4%
 8.  Jamey Eisenberg – CBS Sports  57.0%
 9.  Greg Smith – The Fake Football  56.8%
 10  Jon Collins – Fantasy Sports LR  56.8%

*View Full Accuracy Scores (135 experts) | Combine Top Experts into Consensus Rankings

Congrats to Donald Gibson (Football.com) for handing out week 4’s most accurate advice. Gibson helped his cause by delivering several high profile hits. Most notably, he was 1 of only 2 experts to slot Chris Ivory within his top 10 RBs. Ivory made that decision pay off to the tune of a career-high 166 rushing yards (plus a TD). Gibson also took a chance by ranking Todd Gurley (his RB #23) within RB2 territory. That may sound like an easy pick in retrospect (146 rushing yards later), but it was gutsy call considering Gurley was coming off a game where he had just 6 carries and was facing a stout Arizona defense. Gibson’s rank was a full 12 spots above the expert consensus. Gibson also gets credit for going against the grain with sleeper hits for Eddie Royal (+21 rank spots vs. ECR) and Sam Bradford (1 of 3 experts to rank him inside his top 10 QBs).

Peak Performers

As always, we recognize the experts that did the best job of ranking week 4′s peak performers. Below are several key players that came through beyond expectations for fantasy owners along with the experts who delivered their top ranking.

Philip Rivers SmallPhilip Rivers (SD)
Consensus: QB #10
Best Rank: QB #3
Actual Rank: QB #1
Top Expert: Dan Yanotchko (EDSFootball)

Devonta Freeman SmallDevonta Freeman (ATL)
Consensus: RB #11
Best Rank: RB #1
Actual Rank: RB #1
Top Expert: Nathan Jahnke (Pro Football Focus)

Jeremy Hill SmallJeremy Hill (CIN)
Consensus: RB #14
Best Rank: RB #7
Actual Rank: RB #2
Top Expert: Adrian Pereira (eDraft)

Chris Ivory SmallChris Ivory (NYJ) 
Consensus: RB #16
Best Rank: RB #8
Actual Rank: RB #3
Top Expert: Alex Gelhar (NFL.com)

Tavon Austin SmallTavon Austin (STL) 
Consensus: WR #64
Best Rank: WR #32
Actual Rank: WR #1
Top Expert: Tony Mauriello (ProjectRoto) & ScoutFantasy Staff

Vincent Jackson SmallVincent Jackson (TB)  
Consensus: WR #29
Best Rank: WR #21
Actual Rank: WR #2
Top Expert: Scott Pianowski (Yahoo! Sports)

Allen Hurns SmallAllen Hurns (JAC)
Consensus: WR #34
Best Rank: WR #15
Actual Rank: WR #3
Top Expert: Seth Klein (The Fantasy Fix)

Coby Fleener SmallCoby Fleener (IND)
Consensus: TE #12
Best Rank: TE #3
Actual Rank: TE #2
Top Expert: Tony Mauriello (ProjectRoto) & ScoutFantasy Staff

Year-to-Date Accuracy

Top 10 Experts – Overall Leaderboard*
 Rank  Expert  PAY™
 1.  Scott Pianowski – Yahoo! Sports  59.4%
 2.  Jeff Ratcliffe – Pro Football Focus  58.5%
 3.  Chet Gresham – Walter Football  58.4%
 4.  Sean Koerner – STATS  58.3%
 5.  Michael Fabiano – NFL.com  58.3%
 6.  Mike Clay – Pro Football Focus  58.2%
 7.  John Paulsen – 4for4.com  58.2%
 8.  Justin Boone – The Score  58.2%
 9.  Nathan Jahnke – Pro Football Focus  58.0%
 10  Sablich Brothers – The NY Times  57.9%

*View Full Accuracy Scores (132 experts) | Combine Top Experts into Consensus Rankings

That wraps up this week’s accuracy report. We’ll be back again next week to provide another update on the experts’ predictions. Until then, be sure to check out our week 5 consensus rankings to help with your lineup decisions.

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