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    • in Theory
    • — 5 Oct, 2013

    Week 5 Start Suggestions Based on Risk/Reward

    As the bye weeks have hit many of you are in predicaments about who to start. A lot of you are looking for whom to start as your 2nd/3rd receiver[…]

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    • in Projections
    • — 3 Oct, 2013

    Week 5 WR Uncertainty Projections

    Fantasy Football Projections are imperative for winning your fantasy leagues. One overlooked aspect is understanding the standard deviation of a player’s projections. Below is a table with WRs (PPR) Projected[…]

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    • in Projections
    • — 2 Oct, 2013

    Under/Over Whelming Wide Receivers

    As of the conclusion of Week 4 2013, we’ve been able to collect 4 weeks of targeting information for wideouts. In a PPR league, it’s imperative to understand wide receivers[…]

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    • in Trade Strategy
    • — 2 Oct, 2013

    Fantasy Football Trade Strategy

    For those of you who start out your season and find yourself at the bottom of the standings, and/or failing to keep up on total points, here are some recommendations[…]

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    • in Theory
    • — 21 Sep, 2013

    Why You Shouldn’t Overvalue QBs

    In your standard 12 team fantasy football PPR leagues many of you are going into your draft with the wrong strategy. Quarterbacks consistently record the most points on a week[…]

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    • in Draft Optimizer · R · Tools
    • — 1 Sep, 2013

    Win Your Fantasy Football Snake Draft with this App

    In a previous post, I showed how to determine the best starting lineup to draft in an auction draft using an optimizer tool.  In this post, we use a Shiny app in R to determine[…]

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    • in Projections · R
    • — 30 Aug, 2013

    Drafting the Best Starting Lineup in Fantasy Football by Taking into Account Uncertainty in the Projections: An Optimization Simulation

    In a previous post, I showed how to determine the best starting lineup to draft using an optimizer tool.  The optimizer identifies the players that maximize your projected points within your[…]

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    • in Draft Optimizer · R
    • — 28 Aug, 2013

    Calculating the Highest Value to Bid on Each Player in an Auction Draft: The Bid Up To Value

    In this post, I calculate the highest value you should bid on each player in an auction draft—what I refer to as the “bid up to” value.  In a previous[…]

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    • in Draft Optimizer · R
    • — 17 Aug, 2013

    Update to Fantasy Football Draft Optimizer OpenCPU app

    By popular demand, I updated the Fantasy Football Draft Optimizer OpenCPU app with two changes: The app now takes into account how many teams are in your league when estimating players’[…]

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    • in Projections · R
    • — 11 Jul, 2013

    Expected Points by Position Rank in Fantasy Football

    In this post, I calculate the expected fantasy points scored by players based on their position and position rank.  This post is modeled after a post by Chase Stuart (see here and[…]

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