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Week 15 Fantasy Football Sneaky Starts

Welcome to Week 15. Most leagues are holding their semifinals this week, so we’re obviously in crunch time. Unfortunately, there are several lingering injuries—James Conner, Melvin Gordon, Carson Wentz, LeSean McCoy, Odell Beckham and DeSean Jackson to name a few—that are throwing a wrench into the best-laid plans.

A great way to identify a potential spot start is to leverage 4for4’s signature strength-of-schedule metric, adjusted fantasy points allowed (aFPA). Many sites publish raw fantasy points allowed by position, but 4for4 goes a step further and adjusts those numbers for a defense’s relative year-to-date schedule strength. So if a defense has seen a murderer’s row of running backs, it will be reflected in the defense’s aFPA.