Week 7 Interactive Defense Matchup Tracker

Oct. 23, 2009
By Dave Richard
Senior Fantasy Writer
Tell Dave your opinion!

CBSSports.com has always taken pride in delivering the latest news, the freshest analysis and the best tools to help you win your leagues. We take the next step in doing that with our Interactive Defense Matchup Tracker, or IDMT. It's a tool you won't find anywhere else.

We encourage all of you to use the IDMT to seek out roster issues for the upcoming week. For example, if you've got Chris Cooley and Jason Witten and can only start one tight end, this tool will make it easy for you to see who has the better matchup -- and all without you lifting a finger to do research.

When you view running backs, you'll get their matchup data based purely on opposing run defenses, not total defenses. Same thing for quarterbacks and receivers -- their matchups against the pass are what you need to know when determining their worth, so that's what you'll get.

Click around, customize the data to your specific players and good luck in Week 6!

Talk Back

ksu_engr

Reputation:78
Level:Pro
Since:Jan 15, 2007

October 17, 2009 10:57 am

Score: 171

Couple thoughts

I like this tool alot. A few adjustments would make it easier to use though. If you could click all the people you wanted and then hit submit that would be quicker and easier instead of pausing every time you click a players name. Also if you could seperate out the weeks remaining function. It would be nice to compare players for a "stetch" of the season. Makes it les ...(more)

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across777

Reputation:86
Level:All-Star
Since:Oct 12, 2007

October 20, 2009 10:53 am

Score: 170

Cool, but needs some work.

This is a REALLY cool idea, it just needs some work.

Why have ALL the players selected, and require the user to go through and deselect the ones he isn't interested in? Especially since there are so many players on here who are completely irrelevant for fantasy football (all the FBs for instance).

If I have Forte, Tomlinson and Mendenhall and I want to compare their sch ...(more)

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teets3

Reputation:99
Level:Superstar
Since:Sep 6, 2006

October 14, 2009 6:24 pm

Score: 110

If only your rankings weren't flawed...

This is a cool tool, and it would be a lot more useful if CBS didn't miss-weight certain categories in coming up with its site's rankings in different offensive categories.

CBS will rank a team 30th against the run because it allows 160 rush yards per game. However, the most important gauge of the effectiveness of run-stopping is YPC against, not YPG against. (CBS uses the l ...(more)

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