WR ATL Week 4 · PPR

Start or sit Zachariah Branch?

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.

Borderline

#45 WR projection — on the borderline of the ~34 started in 12-team leagues.

Borderline call: Zachariah Branch projects for 7.6 PPR points this week, ranked #45 among WRs by our projection model. @NO is a tough matchup for WRs — the model applies a -4% swing to his projection. Vegas posts the total at 45.5 — 98% of the 46.6 league average for week 4.

Season projection table

PPR · weeks 1–18

Zachariah Branch projected PPR points by week, weeks 1 through 18
Wk Proj (PPR)
1 8.4
2 7.1
3 8.2
4 this week 7.6
5 9.2
6 9.0
7 8.6
8 8.2
9 6.9
10 7.5
11 —
12 6.8
13 8.9
14 7.4
15 8.7
16 8.2
17 7.7
18 7.3

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