Start and Sit

The playoffs provide far fewer opportunities to play the best matchups in your daily lineups, but that doesn't lessen the importance of contextual factors. In fact, context may be more important this weekend than it has been all season, with the bulk of the wild-card weekend starting quarterbacks showing marked career home/road splits, and with a potential for bad weather in both Philadelphia and Boston.

The following tables feature the players with the best and worst matchups of the week. Each listed player shows a true-talent (TT) ranking that represents how I would rank him with a perfectly neutral game context. Then, that ranking is adjusted by adding the context of the venue (Ven) --…