A lot of people really hate Zero R.B. Here's a tweet from Michael Fabiano.

Who wants to take the NFL playoff challenge?

Sign up here to compete against me.

Can't go Zero R. B in this format?

Why? Why, Michael? Why? We know you finished last in your work

league, the NFL network league that you're in with Aaron Koskereli. She told us you

were in last place desperately trying to trade assets to turn your team around and you failed.

You were beaten by teams that implemented Zero R.B.

And you're bitter and you're lashing out.

But you are not the only one.

A lot of fantasy gamers and fantasy analysts are dancing with glee on what they believe to be the Zero Ar B grave site.

Why? Because many Zero-R-B enthusiasts like myself come across as if we think we're the smartest people in the room. The tone in which many of us talk about

Zero RB strategy is off-putting to many of you, and I understand that. We talk zero R.B. with pretension and I believe that's why so many are so eager to celebrate the fact that many zero R.B. teams did not win championships this year and in fact most of the teams most of the fantasy teams that won championships in 2016

drafted either David Johnson or Ezekiel Elliot in the first round.

And if they didn't draft Ezekiel Elliot or David Johnson in the first round, they most likely

drafted a Labion Bell in the second round.

Those three players were the league winners in 2016, but as we talked about last week

The fundamentals of zero R.B haven't changed just because the top scoring players in fantasy football this year were all running backs

particularly when you look at a metric like value over stream player profiler.com's

player profiler.com's version of value over replacement you'll see top five players all running backs.

The highest value over streams by a wide margin belong to David Johnson, Laveon Bell, and

Ezekiel Elliot.

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