Johny The Greek's Cornerbacks Corner Week Four (4) • IDP+

Different team same Logan Ryan

Welcome to Johny The Greek's Cornerbacks Corner week four. Week three was another solid week with a ton of excellent corner streams and double digit massive hits yet again. We've got three weeks in the books now and I'm starting to figure out about how accurate I'm going to be all season, it looks like it will end up hovering somewhere around or just under 70% each week which I don't think is too bad at all. Corner is the most inconsistent and spotty position in IDP fantasy football, the same can be said for defensive tackle or defensive end but if you have Aaron Donald (DT) and Myles Garrett (DE) you know you're in for more good weeks than bad every season, the same can't be said at corner.

If you're new to this article series the idea behind it is that in the IDP world cornerbacks are the red headed step child, often neglected or scoffed at. Not here. I freaking love streaming corners and have for some time now. We're going to be looking at things like expected game script, opposing offensive tendencies, snap counts, role and historical production to inform our weekly decisions on what corners are an "ideal" streaming option. By giving this entire thing more than two seconds thought we will have a distinct advantage over our opponents who are not doing this over the course of the season. We are going to put ourselves in the best position possible every week to score the most IDP points humanly possible from our cornerback slots.

Just a little background, I've been playing IDP for seventeen years now and streaming corners for well over a decade of that time. I have won many titles in both redraft and dynasty and also in best ball and DFS as well as college fantasy football. I am a true degenerate. Personally I like to stream not only whatever the current week is but if my bench is big enough I'll load up two more ideal streamers for the following week and by doing so I've already taken my pick of the litter a week before anyone else is even thinking about their corners. Corner is a naturally spotty position but by looking at all the factors I listed above we will have better outcomes than the majority of IDP owners who simply put in a "known" corner with a big name (Richard Sherman for example) into their corner slots and ride out the production whether or not that matchup makes sense each week. That won't be us, we're going to waterboard our opponents with ideal matchups all season until they drown from our flood of IDP points.

It looks like we'll have some pretty solid matchups this week and we'll continue to target those for our ideal matchups but in today's NFL where passing is the name of the game I'm sure we'll find solid streaming options in just about every matchup so even those of us in the deepest of leagues have some options. Alright let's have a look at how we did last week with some transparency and have a look at this week's matchups.

Last week I recommended 55 "Ideal" or "Solid" corners to stream, of those 4 were either inactive or injured, 34 were correct and 17 were incorrect (didn't at least meet projection). Of the 34 correct streaming calls 14 of those were "massive hits" (doubled or tripled projection). We were 66% correct overall this week and are sitting at 68% correct for the season. We had a 41% massive hit percentage of correct streaming calls this past week which is the high mark for the season so far.

Disclaimer Time! I’m not going to get all of these correct. Cornerback especially is a wildly inconsistent position for production in IDP fantasy football. That’s why most people hate it with a passion. My whole thing is to put yourself in the best position to succeed by looking at all the variables and making the absolute best streaming call possible. After that you pray. Your team is your responsibility and yours alone, you set the lineup not me. Take ownership if things go south, these are only suggestions. I will do my absolute best to make sure that these recommendations are the best possible and will base these on factual information and statistics from places like NFLGsis.com, PFF and other fantasy and NFL data and statistics sites. I will also use the force, sometimes a gut feeling is all I have to go on in an unknown situation but if it comes down to that just know this isn’t my first rodeo.

I don’t work for the NFL, I don’t get to sit in on defensive team meetings for all thirty-two teams, I don’t get inside information. If a player has looked solid all season and has been playing a ton of snaps and they get yanked right before a game obviously I had nothing to do with it and since I don’t work for said team no one told me. (See Vernon Hargreaves 2019). If someone goes down with an ACL it’s not because I made a voodoo doll of them and stuck it with pins. These decisions are the same ones I’m making for my teams so if things go bad for you they go bad for me as well. I’m just here to help, don’t kill the messenger.

Article Key:

Outlook: This will be a brief overview of the two offenses and how that will effect the outlook for each teams cornerbacks corps. We’ll look at offensive ranks, expected game scripts and how the game should go. This will help us identify if this is a matchup we want to target for streaming corners or not.

Ideal Matchup: This is the best possible matchup for this teams cornerbacks, streaming any corners from this team, especially guys that are talented and play all the snaps gives you the best chances at excellent production from those corners.

Solid Matchup: This isn’t a perfect matchup to stream corner but it’s still pretty good, if you’re in a deeper league and have fewer options to stream from this matchup is still a better option than most.

Avoid: This matchup will likely be terrible to stream corner from, due to anything from a god awful opposing quarterback who can’t complete passes to a banged up wide receiver corps or even a run first offense like the 2019 Ravens were (they didn’t pass all that often because frankly they didn’t need to, their run game was ridiculous) there’s something that makes this a bad matchup to stream corners from, avoid if possible. However there may be specific corners who get a “solid” in an otherwise “avoid” matchup simply due to their talent and ability to make plays in all aspects of the defense (see Logan Ryan (CB)).

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