Dave Richard's Week 5 PPR Fantasy Cheat Sheet — SkimNews
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- Week 5 of the fantasy football season is shaping up as a difficult lineup week, with injuries benching notable players and unexpected contributors emerging as legitimate starting options in PPR formats.
- Dave Richard's cheat sheet delivers detailed matchup analysis and a confidence rating for every relevant player, framed to address whether managers can afford to bench stars like Jalen Hurts and Justin Herbert.
- All weekly analysis on the cheat sheet is expressed on a 1-10 confidence scale, where higher numbers indicate stronger starts—the ratings are explicitly described as confidence scores, not statistical projections.
- Players whose names do not appear on the cheat sheet carry an implicit recommendation to not be started, with Richard instructing managers to leave those names on the bench.
- For managers still weighing waiver-wire pickups against drafted starters, Richard invites direct questions using the #AskFFT hashtag and his @DaveRichard handle, time permitting.
- The article directs readers to CBS Sports' weekly rankings for real-time updates on Sundays, positioning the cheat sheet as the planning tool for the full Week 5 slate.
Why it matters: Week 5 falls at the point in the season where managers have four games of data but still face volatile decisions on stars like Hurts and Herbert and unproven waiver-wire pickups. The cheat sheet's 1-10 confidence scale collapses that uncertainty into a single comparable number per player, giving PPR managers a shared reference point before locking in lineups.
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