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Football > 2012 > Weekly Matchup Analyzer > Week 8

Fantasy Football Matchup Analyzer: Week 8

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. Green Bay at Minnesota (allows 9.6 points per game to Ks)
    PK1 Mason Crosby
  2. Kansas City vs. Cleveland (allows 9.5 points per game to Ks)
    PK1 Ryan Succop
  3. Seattle at St. Louis (allows 9.3 points per game to Ks)
    PK1 Steven Hauschka (IR)
  4. Denver vs. (allows 8.9 points per game to Ks)
    PK1 Matt Prater
  5. Oakland vs. Pittsburgh (allows 8.9 points per game to Ks)
    PK1 Sebastian Janikowski
  6. Atlanta at Arizona (allows 8.3 points per game to Ks)
    PK1 Matt Bryant
  7. New York Giants at Philadelphia (allows 8.1 points per game to Ks)
    PK2 Josh Brown
  8. New England vs. Miami (allows 7.9 points per game to Ks)
    PK1 Stephen Gostkowski
  9. New York Jets at Cincinnati (allows 7.7 points per game to Ks)
    PK1 Nick Folk
  10. Pittsburgh at Oakland (allows 7.5 points per game to Ks)
    PK1 Shaun Suisham

Toughest Matchups

  1. Buffalo at New Orleans (allows 0.0 points per game to Ks)
    PK1 Rian Lindell
  2. Cincinnati vs. New York Jets (allows 0.0 points per game to Ks)
    PK1 Mike Nugent (IR)
  3. New Orleans vs. Buffalo (allows 5.9 points per game to Ks)
    PK1 Garrett Hartley
  4. Carolina at Tampa Bay (allows 5.9 points per game to Ks)
    PK1 Graham Gano
  5. Cleveland at Kansas City (allows 6.0 points per game to Ks)
    PK1 Shayne Graham, PK2 Brandon Bogotay
  6. Arizona vs. Atlanta (allows 6.2 points per game to Ks)
    PK1 Jay Feely
  7. Detroit vs. Dallas (allows 6.2 points per game to Ks)
    PK1 David Akers
  8. St. Louis vs. Seattle (allows 6.3 points per game to Ks)
    PK1 Greg Zuerlein
  9. Minnesota vs. Green Bay (allows 6.4 points per game to Ks)
    PK1 Blair Walsh
  10. Tampa Bay vs. Carolina (allows 6.8 points per game to Ks)
    PK1 Connor Barth
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