Gold Mining Explained
We wanted to provide a more useful way of understanding how players in the NFL are projected to perform week in and week out in Fantasy Football. Wisdom of the[…]
Category: Projections
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Points Per Touch (PPT): Running Backs
Overview American writer Lewis Grizzard once said that “The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points[…]
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Fantasy Football Rankings are a Joke. Use Projections Instead!
Sports Illustrated just released their annual fantasy football rankings. I’ve been waiting in anticipation to find out who they think is the best quarterback in the land. According to SI,[…]
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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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[…]
WR Gold Mining – Week 12
How Do I Use This Graph? There are two ways to use this graph: identify uncertainty between players or identify tiers of players. To identify uncertainty between players, examine an[…]
Tabs
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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