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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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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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[…]
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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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’[…]
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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Win Your Fantasy Football Auction Draft: Determine the Optimal Players to Draft with this App
In this post, we use a Shiny app in R to determine the best possible players to pick in a fantasy football auction draft. The app includes the most accurate fantasy football[…]
Who Has the Best Fantasy Football Projections: ESPN, CBS, NFL.com, or FantasyPros?
In prior posts, I demonstrated how to download, calculate, and compare fantasy football projections from ESPN, CBS, and NFL.com. In my last post, I demonstrated how to download FantasyPros projections, which aggregate projections from many different sources[…]
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Downloading FantasyPros Fantasy Football Projections in R
In this post, I will show you how to download FantasyPros fantasy football projections using R. The key advantage of FantasyPros is that it aggregates many sources of projections into[…]
Win Your Snake Draft: Calculating “Value Over Replacement” using R
In prior posts, I have demonstrated how to download, calculate, and compare fantasy football projections from ESPN, CBS, and NFL.com and how to calculate players’ risk levels. In this post, I will demonstrate how to win your snake[…]
Tabs
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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