WR GB Week 5 · PPR

Start or sit Matthew Golden?

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

WR73 — below the ~34 started in 12-team leagues.

Sit call: Matthew Golden projects for 3.6 PPR points this week, ranked #73 among WRs by our projection model. vs CHI is a soft matchup for WRs — the model applies a +10% swing to his projection. Vegas posts the total at 49.5 — 105% of the 47.2 league average for week 5.

Season projection table

PPR · weeks 1–18

Matthew Golden projected PPR points by week, weeks 1 through 18
Wk Proj (PPR)
1 2.7
2 3.1
3 3.4
4 3.3
5 this week 3.6
6 3.9
7 3.6
8 2.9
9 3.1
10 2.7
11 —
12 3.2
13 3.1
14 2.9
15 3.1
16 3.7
17 2.8
18 3.6

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