Wide Receiver Gold Mining – Week 11
Wide Receiver Gold Mining 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, CBS’s Dave Richard,[…]
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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[…]
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How to Download and Run R Scripts from this Site
This post outlines how to download and run R scripts from this website. We have many Fantasy Football scripts that show how to download and calculate fantasy projections, determine the riskiness of a player, identify sleepers,[…]
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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Do Massive Workloads Equal Big Declines in Running Back Productivity?
The popular wisdom is that “massive workloads” result in a decline in running back productivity in the following season. For example, anecdotal evidence using Corey Dillon (2004) and Jamaal Anderson[…]
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,[…]
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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[…]
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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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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