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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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0
- in Gold Mining · Projections · R · Theory · Weekly
- — 18 Dec, 2014
Wide Receiver Gold Mining -Week 16

The graph below summarizes the projections from a variety of sources. This week’s summary includes projections from: Fantasy Football Sharks, CBS’s Jamey Eisenberg, Fantasy Football Today, CBS’s Dave Richard, ESPN,[…]

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- in Gold Mining · Projections · R · Theory · Uncategorized · Weekly
- — 10 Dec, 2014
Wide Receiver Gold Mining – Week 15

The graph and table below summarize the projections from a variety of sources. This week’s summary includes projections from: CBS’s Dave Richard, Fantasy Football Sharks, CBS’s Jamey Eisenberg, ESPN, Fantasy[…]

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