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    • in Gold Mining · Projections · Theory · Weekly
    • — 14 Nov, 2014

    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,[…]

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    • in Projections · R
    • — 1 Sep, 2014

    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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    • in R · Theory
    • — 25 Aug, 2014

    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[…]

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    • in Projections
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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,[…]

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    • in R · Risk
    • — 20 Jul, 2014

    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[…]

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    • in Draft Optimizer · Projections · R
    • — 13 Jul, 2014

    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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    • in Projections · R · Risk · Tools
    • — 6 Jul, 2014

    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,[…]

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    • in Projections · R
    • — 27 Jun, 2014

    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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    • in Projections · R · Risk
    • — 24 Jun, 2014

    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[…]

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