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Football > 2012 > Weekly Matchup Analyzer > Week 5

Fantasy Football Matchup Analyzer: Week 5

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. San Diego at Oakland (allows 28.1 points per game to WRs)
    WR1 Danario Alexander, WR2 Vincent Brown, WR3 Malcom Floyd, WR4 Keenan Allen, WR4 Robert Meachem
  2. Atlanta vs. New York Jets (allows 27.1 points per game to WRs)
    WR1 Julio Jones, WR2 Roddy White, WR3 Harry Douglas, WR4 Drew Davis
  3. New York Giants vs. Philadelphia (allows 25.5 points per game to WRs)
    WR1 Hakeem Nicks, WR1 Victor Cruz, WR3 Rueben Randle, WR4 Ramses Barden, WR5 Louis Murphy
  4. Green Bay vs. Detroit (allows 25.5 points per game to WRs)
    WR1 Randall Cobb, WR2 Jordy Nelson, WR3 James Jones, WR4 Jarrett Boykin, WR5 Kevin Dorsey
  5. Cleveland vs. Buffalo (allows 25.4 points per game to WRs)
    WR1 Josh Gordon, WR2 Davone Bess, WR3 Greg Little, WR4 Travis Benjamin, WR5 David Nelson
  6. Tennessee vs. Kansas City (allows 23.9 points per game to WRs)
    WR1 Kenny Britt, WR3 Nate Washington, WR3 Kendall Wright, WR4 Justin Hunter, WR5 Kevin Walter
  7. Denver at Dallas (allows 23.7 points per game to WRs)
    WR1 Demaryius Thomas, WR2 Wes Welker, WR2 Eric Decker, WR4 Andre Caldwell, WR5 Tavarres King
  8. Baltimore at Miami (allows 23.5 points per game to WRs)
    WR1 Torrey Smith, WR2 Jacoby Jones, WR3 Deonte Thompson, WR4 Tandon Doss, WR5 David Reed
  9. New York Jets at Atlanta (allows 23.4 points per game to WRs)
    WR1 Stephen Hill, WR2 Jeremy Kerley, WR3 Santonio Holmes, WR4 Clyde Gates, WR5 Jordan White
  10. New Orleans at Chicago (allows 23.2 points per game to WRs)
    WR1 Marques Colston, WR2 Lance Moore, WR3 Joseph Morgan, WR4 Nick Toon, WR5 Kenny Stills

Toughest Matchups

  1. Oakland vs. San Diego (allows 0.0 points per game to WRs)
    WR1 Denarius Moore, WR2 Jacoby Ford, WR3 Rod Streater, WR4 Josh Cribbs, WR5 Juron Criner
  2. Dallas vs. Denver (allows 0.0 points per game to WRs)
    WR1 Dez Bryant, WR2 Miles Austin, WR3 Dwayne Harris, WR4 Terrance Williams, WR5 Anthony Armstrong
  3. Detroit at Green Bay (allows 0.0 points per game to WRs)
    WR1 Calvin Johnson, WR2 Nate Burleson, WR3 Ryan Broyles, WR4 Patrick Edwards, WR5 Brian Robiskie
  4. Carolina at Arizona (allows 17.1 points per game to WRs)
    WR1 Steve Smith, WR2 Brandon LaFell, WR3 Domenik Hixon, WR4 Ted Ginn, WR5 Armanti Edwards
  5. New England at Cincinnati (allows 17.9 points per game to WRs)
    WR1 Danny Amendola, WR2 Aaron Dobson, WR3 Donald Jones, WR4 Julian Edelman, WR5 Josh Boyce
  6. Miami vs. Baltimore (allows 18.3 points per game to WRs)
    WR1 Mike Wallace, WR2 Brian Hartline, WR3 Brandon Gibson, WR4 Armon Binns, WR5 Jeff Fuller
  7. Houston at San Francisco (allows 18.4 points per game to WRs)
    WR1 Andre Johnson, WR2 DeAndre Hopkins, WR3 Lestar Jean, WR4 DeVier Posey, WR5 Keshawn Martin
  8. Buffalo at Cleveland (allows 18.6 points per game to WRs)
    WR1 Stevie Johnson, WR3 Robert Woods, WR3 T.J. Graham, WR4 Da'Rick Rogers, WR5 Marcus Easley
  9. Arizona vs. Carolina (allows 18.8 points per game to WRs)
    WR1 Larry Fitzgerald, WR2 Michael Floyd, WR3 Andre Roberts, WR4 Ryan Swope
  10. Seattle at Indianapolis (allows 18.9 points per game to WRs)
    WR1 Percy Harvin, WR2 Sidney Rice, WR3 Golden Tate, WR4 Doug Baldwin
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