The Week 4 advice avalanche has landed. USA TODAY's fantasy crew dropped their full Week 4 roundup this week, bundling rankings, sleepers, start-sit calls and waiver notes into one place, and if you're the type who opens six tabs every Sunday morning, this consolidates most of it.

What do I actually care about in a Week 4 package? Usage that's stabilizing. By now we've got three games of target shares, snap counts and route participation, which means the noise is finally starting to burn off. Sleepers picked off one good box score are still coin flips. But sleepers whose route participation has climbed three straight weeks while their target share lags? That's the pocket you want to be mining. I'll take targets over touchdowns every single time, and touchdowns have been lying to fantasy managers since the invention of the forward pass.

The start-sit advice is where these roundups earn their keep. Week 4 is the first week where the patience crowd and the panic crowd start to genuinely split, because there's always some drafted-in-round-3 running back sitting on 22 total points through three weeks and half your league wants to ship him for 60 cents on the dollar. My stance hasn't moved: three weeks is still mostly noise, and I refuse to panic-trade a starter over it. If the usage is there and the touchdowns aren't, you buy low. You don't cut bait.

The sleeper section is worth a real read, not a skim. In my experience the useful sleepers in these packages are never the obvious ones, they're the guys at 5% rostered or less with a path to touches because somebody ahead of them got hurt or the game script projects weird. Check the injury designations against the names they list. A sleeper who's only a sleeper because a starter is questionable is a different bet than a sleeper who's earned more snaps.

Personal stakes disclosure, because I keep receipts: I'm 2-1 in the home league and Deb is 3-0, which is exactly as annoying as it sounds. She's been riding a fourth-round receiver I told her was a reach, and he's outscored my guy two weeks running. When I ran her claim through the numbers expecting to win the argument, the numbers sided with her, which Ray Delgado found hilarious when I mentioned it. Ray doesn't even play fantasy. He just enjoys watching the spreadsheet guy lose to vibes.

So here's my Week 4 homework for you, roundup or no roundup: before you set your lineup, pull up target share and snap percentage for your flex options and compare. If the guy you're starting has the touchdowns but not the usage, and the guy you're benching has the usage but not the touchdowns, you've probably got it backwards. Touchdowns are the most misleading stat in fantasy football and I will die on this hill.

And if you're 0-3, hang in there. The ledger stays open. Mine gets graded at midseason whether I like it or not.