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Football > 2012 > Weekly Matchup Analyzer > Week 15

Fantasy Football Matchup Analyzer: Week 15

This tool is not meant to be a replacement for our weekly player rankings, although matchups are taken into consideration for those as well. You shouldn't bench a stud player who has a difficult matchup or automatically start a fantasy backup who has an easy matchup. It's meant to be a helpful tool when deciding between two closely ranked players. The matchups are graded on how many fantasy points the opposing team surrendered to this position on average.

Week:

Easiest Matchups

  1. Tampa Bay vs. San Francisco (allows 21.4 points per game to QBs)
    QB1 Josh Freeman, QB2 Dan Orlovsky
  2. New Orleans at St. Louis (allows 20.6 points per game to QBs)
    QB1 Drew Brees, QB2 Luke McCown
  3. St. Louis vs. New Orleans (allows 19.9 points per game to QBs)
    QB1 Sam Bradford, QB2 Kellen Clemens
  4. San Francisco at Tampa Bay (allows 19.9 points per game to QBs)
    QB1 Colin Kaepernick, QB2 Colt McCoy
  5. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh (allows 19.8 points per game to QBs)
    QB1 Andy Dalton, QB2 Josh Johnson
  6. Seattle at New York Giants (allows 19.2 points per game to QBs)
    QB1 Russell Wilson, QB1 Brady Quinn
  7. Cleveland vs. Chicago (allows 19.1 points per game to QBs)
    QB1 Brandon Weeden, QB2 Jason Campbell
  8. New York Jets at Carolina (allows 19.0 points per game to QBs)
    QB1 Mark Sanchez, QB2 Geno Smith, QB4 Greg McElroy
  9. Atlanta vs. (allows 18.8 points per game to QBs)
    QB1 Matt Ryan (Pro), QB2 Domanique Davis
  10. Kansas City at Oakland (allows 18.6 points per game to QBs)
    QB2 Alex Smith, QB2 Chase Daniel

Toughest Matchups

  1. Dallas vs. Green Bay (allows 12.5 points per game to QBs)
    QB1 Tony Romo (Pro), QB2 Kyle Orton
  2. Buffalo at (allows 13.0 points per game to QBs)
    QB1 E.J. Manuel, QB2 Kevin Kolb (IR)
  3. Detroit vs. Baltimore (allows 13.1 points per game to QBs)
    QB1 Matthew Stafford, QB2 Shaun Hill
  4. Green Bay at Dallas (allows 13.5 points per game to QBs)
    QB1 Aaron Rodgers (Pro), QB2 Graham Harrell
  5. Denver vs. San Diego (allows 14.4 points per game to QBs)
    QB1 Peyton Manning, QB2 Brock Osweiler
  6. Philadelphia at Minnesota (allows 14.6 points per game to QBs)
    QB1 Michael Vick, QB2 Nick Foles (IR), QB4 Matt Barkley
  7. New England at Miami (allows 14.6 points per game to QBs)
    QB1 Tom Brady (Pro), QB2 Ryan Mallett
  8. Tennessee vs. Arizona (allows 14.8 points per game to QBs)
    QB1 Jake Locker (Que), QB2 Ryan Fitzpatrick
  9. Baltimore at Detroit (allows 15.0 points per game to QBs)
    QB1 Joe Flacco, QB2 Tyrod Taylor
  10. New York Giants vs. Seattle (allows 15.1 points per game to QBs)
    QB1 Eli Manning, QB2 David Carr
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