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Category: Theory

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    • in Theory · Tools
    • — 10 Mar, 2025

    Post-Combine Mock: Team Needs and Targets

    This exercise will be a first round mock draft, assessing team needs and identifying targets for later rounds. There will be no trades and each team will be selecting at[…]

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    • in Articles · R · Theory
    • — 16 Aug, 2024

    Winning Fantasy Football with Projections, Value Over Replacement, and Value-Based Drafting

    Draft day in fantasy football is all about making informed decisions and a successful season depends on accurate player projections and a strategic approach. Building a great fantasy roster often[…]

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    • in Gold Mining · R · Risk · Theory · Weekly
    • — 31 Oct, 2019

    Gold-Mining Week 9 (2019)

    Week 9 Gold Mining and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available.

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    • in Gold Mining · Risk · Theory · Weekly
    • — 20 Dec, 2017

    Gold-Mining Week 16 (2017)

    Week 16 Gold Mining and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. Go get that free agent gold!

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  • 21
    • in Projections · R · Theory
    • — 14 Apr, 2016

    Are Subscription Sources More Accurate?

    Introduction In this article, we examine whether there are advantages to paying for subscription fantasy football projections. We tested whether projections from subscription sources have higher accuracy than projections from free, publicly[…]

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    21
    • in Projections · R · Theory
    • — 4 Apr, 2016

    Which are More Accurate: Fantasy Football Rankings or Projections?

    When deciding how to compare players in fantasy football, managers have an important decision: whether to compare players with rankings or projections.  In this article, we compare the accuracy of[…]

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  • 25
    • in Theory
    • — 5 Aug, 2015

    Lessons Learned From Previous 1st Round Picks

    The thrill of the Fantasy Football season commences when the draft begins and you get ready to make your 1st round selection. For a brief moment when you’re on the[…]

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    • in Projections · R · Theory
    • — 29 Jul, 2015

    Player Value Gap Assessment

    Looking at fantasy football projections we have a group of experts providing their views on how a player will do during the football season. We have collected projections from several[…]

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    • in R · Theory · Tools
    • — 17 Mar, 2015

    How Fantasy Football is Like Stock Picking (Including a Shiny App)

    In this post, I compare fantasy football to stock picking.  There are important lessons we can learn from financial forecasting that can be applied to forecasting football players’ performance. Fantasy Football[…]

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    • in Theory
    • — 7 Feb, 2015

    Do Stats Help in Fantasy Football?

    I’ve presented statistically-informed draft strategies for snake and auction drafts, arguments to use projections rather than rankings, evidence that the most accurate source of projections is the wisdom of the[…]

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