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[…]
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[…]
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,[…]
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[…]
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,[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
Each week, I take 7 9 different fantasy football projections (PPR) for WRs and take a look at the uncertainty in their projections. What Is This? The data below conveys the degree to[…]