Waiver Wizard publishes fantasy football analysis that people use to make decisions about their own teams. This page documents how that analysis is produced, where our data comes from, what we do when we get something wrong, and where automation is involved.
Three things. Guides are evergreen references on the mechanics and fundamentals of fantasy football — how FAAB works, how to read a depth chart, how to approach a draft. Blog posts are timely analysis tied to what is actually happening in the NFL — roster moves, contract news, waiver wire strategy, and season-long roster construction. Deep dives are daily, single-player arguments: one specific, falsifiable claim about one player, with the evidence for it.
Every article carries the byline of the editor responsible for that beat — Jordan Voss for blog posts and deep dives, Sam Whitfield for guides. You can see who covers what on the editorial team page.
Claims that depend on reporting are linked to the reporting, inline, at the point the claim is made. Every article ends with a sources list naming each outlet we relied on. We link to the original source wherever one exists rather than to an aggregator that reported it second.
We do not publish statistics we cannot attribute. If a number appears in an article without a source, that is an error and we want to hear about it.
Player teams, ages, experience levels, and depth chart positions are read from a reference table that is rebuilt every morning from live league data — not from a list maintained by hand. This matters more than it sounds like it should. Hand-maintained roster notes go stale silently: a player gets traded, nobody updates the file, and months later an article confidently places him on the wrong team.
Rows that stop refreshing are automatically dropped from that reference rather than allowed to sit frozen, so a player who is released, retires, or goes on season-ending injured reserve stops being available as grounding data instead of quietly persisting at whatever his status was on his last active day.
Guides and blog posts are written and reviewed by the editor whose byline they carry before publication.
Daily deep dives go through an automated accuracy review before publication. Every draft is checked against the reference data described above — team, position, experience, and depth chart role for every player named, not just the article's subject — and any article that fails is not published that day. A failed check alerts us rather than silently skipping.
We hold our published opinions to a standard of consistency: we record the position taken in each published article, and a later article may disagree with our own rankings but may not quietly reverse a stance we have already published without saying so.
We think readers are entitled to know how what they are reading was made, so:
Guides and blog posts are researched and written by our editors.
Daily deep dives are AI-assisted. They are produced by an automated pipeline that researches a player, drafts the argument, and submits it to the automated accuracy review described above. Every deep dive is published under the byline of the editor who owns that beat and who is accountable for the output.
We publish them because the underlying analysis is grounded in real data and held to a check that blocks publication on failure — and we would rather tell you plainly how they are made than leave you to guess.
When we get something wrong, we fix it and we say that we fixed it. Our corrections policy explains how to report an error and what we do with it.
Outbound links to other outlets are editorial citations. We link to a source because we relied on it, not because we were paid to.
Waiver Wizard makes money from subscriptions. Our free tier and our paid tier differ in what they offer, and that commercial reality is disclosed openly on our pricing page. No advertiser, sponsor, or commercial partner reviews or approves editorial content before publication, and no article is written to promote a third party.
We do not publish betting advice or picks. Some of our analysis references market data such as futures markets or draft position markets, because those markets are useful sources of aggregated expectation — but they are cited as evidence about player expectations, not as a recommendation to wager. Fantasy football involves judgment and uncertainty, and nothing on this site is a guarantee of any outcome. See our disclaimer.
Questions about this policy, or about how a specific article was produced, can go to jordan@fantasywaiverwizard.com or through our contact page.