RB MIN Week 4 · PPR

Start or sit Demond Claiborne?

The verdict comes from our weekly projection model: last season's opportunity-based xFP/g shrunk toward the position mean, then adjusted for role, injury status, the opponent's fantasy points allowed and the Vegas game total vs the league average.

Sit

RB55 — below the ~28 started in 12-team leagues.

Sit call: Demond Claiborne projects for 4.1 PPR points this week, ranked #55 among RBs by our projection model. vs MIA is a soft matchup for RBs — the model applies a +10% swing to his projection. Vegas posts the total at 43.5 — 93% of the 46.6 league average for week 4.

Season projection table

PPR · weeks 1–18

Demond Claiborne projected PPR points by week, weeks 1 through 18
Wk Proj (PPR)
1 3.8
2 3.7
3 3.9
4 this week 4.1
5 3.6
6 —
7 3.6
8 3.5
9 4.1
10 3.8
11 4.1
12 3.8
13 4.1
14 3.4
15 3.5
16 4.2
17 4.3
18 3.7

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