Weekly Variability Simulation of Fantasy Football Projections
In this post, I show how to estimate players’ week-to-week variability in fantasy football points. In a prior post, I demonstrated how to calculate a player’s risk level, as defined[…]
Author: Isaac Petersen
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Win Your Fantasy Football Draft with These OpenCPU Apps: 2014 Update
By popular demand, I updated the fantasy football draft optimizers with 2014 projections. There are two draft optimizers (one for auction drafts and one for snake drafts). The optimizers identify[…]
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Identify Fantasy Football Sleepers with this App
This post describes a Shiny app that identifies fantasy football sleepers (players who are likely to exceed their statistical expectations and have a breakout season). The app includes the most accurate fantasy football projections available,[…]
Scraping Fantasy Football Projections from the Web
In this post, I show how to download fantasy football projections from the web using R. In prior posts, I showed how to scrape projections from ESPN, CBS, NFL.com, and[…]
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Identify Sleepers in Fantasy Football using Statistics and Wisdom of the Crowd
In this post, I demonstrate how to statistically identify sleepers in fantasy football using the wisdom of the crowd. The R Scripts The R Script for the “Wisdom of the[…]
Custom Fantasy Football Rankings and Projections for Your League with this App
This post describes a Shiny app that calculates custom fantasy football rankings and projections for your league. The app includes the most accurate fantasy football projections available. Based on your league settings, the app[…]
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How Can I Learn R?
We use the software program R to conduct statistical analysis for this site (you can download it here). Many visitors of the site have expressed interest in learning R, so we’ve[…]
Which Site Has the Best Fantasy Football Projections? 2014 Update
In prior posts, I demonstrated how to download, calculate, and compare fantasy football projections from ESPN, CBS, NFL.com, and FantasyPros, which aggregates projections from many different sources to increase prediction accuracy. Last year, I compared fantasy projections[…]
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Why R is Better Than Excel for Fantasy Football (and most other) Data Analysis
Many articles have been written on why R is better than Excel for data analysis. In this post, I will summarize the reasons why R is advantageous in most data[…]
Win Your Fantasy Football Snake Draft with this App
In a previous post, I showed how to determine the best starting lineup to draft in an auction draft using an optimizer tool. In this post, we use a Shiny app in R to determine[…]
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The ffanalytics R Package for Fantasy Football Data AnalysisJune 18, 2016
2015 Fantasy Football Projections using OpenCPUMay 28, 2015
Win Your Fantasy Football Auction Draft: Determine the Optimal Players to Draft with this AppJune 14, 2013
Win Your Fantasy Football Snake Draft with this AppSeptember 1, 2013
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