It’s Week 9 and we are now officially past the halfway point of the fantasy season. There are six teams on bye—Cardinals, Bengals, Colts, Jaguars, Giants and Eagles—so the competition was likely fiercer than usual on the waiver wire to find spot starts to cover these byes. Hopefully owners have planned ahead and have a decent bench to utilize.
A great way to identify a potential spot start is to leverage signature strength-of-schedule metric, adjusted fantasy points allowed (aFPA). Many sites publish raw fantasy points allowed by position, but 4for4 goes a step further and adjusts those numbers for a defense’s relative year-to-date schedule strength.