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    Calculate Fantasy Players’ Risk Levels using R

    In prior posts, I have demonstrated how to download, calculate, and compare fantasy football projections from ESPN, CBS, and NFL.com. In this post, I will demonstrate how to calculate fantasy[…]

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    Comparing ESPN’s, CBS’s, and NFL.com’s Fantasy Football Projections using R

    In the future, we will determine how to select the best possible team by maximizing your team’s projected points and minimizing its downside risk.  But in order to do this,[…]

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    • in Projections · R
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    Calculating Custom Fantasy Football Projections for Your League using R

    In prior posts, I have shown how to download fantasy football projections from ESPN, CBS, and NFL.com.  In this post, I will demonstrate how to take the projected points from these sources and[…]

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    Downloading NFL.com Fantasy Football Projections using R

    In this post, I will show how to download NFL.com fantasy football projections using R. The R Script The R Script for downloading fantasy football projections from NFL.com is located at: https://github.com/FantasyFootballAnalytics/FantasyFootballAnalyticsR/blob/master/R%20Scripts/Projections/NFL%20Projections.R #Download[…]

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    Downloading CBS Fantasy Football Projections in R

    In this post, I will show how to download CBS fantasy football projections using R. The R Script The R Script for downloading fantasy football projections from CBS is located[…]

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    Download Fantasy Football Projections from ESPN.com using R

    In this post, I will demonstrate how to download fantasy football projections from ESPN.com using R.  Having projections allows us to do many different analyses to determine our best possible[…]

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    My name is Isaac and I’m an Associate Professor with a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. Why am I writing about fantasy football and data analysis? Because fantasy football involves the[…]

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