NBA fans love nothing more than to discuss the greatest players of all time. However, most sports fans would be hard pressed to even attempt…
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In early 2024, the women’s basketball world is exploding. The recent Elite 8 matchup between Iowa (Caitlin Clark) and LSU (Angel Reese) was the most…
Click here for a link to our GitHub containing code to find your own optimal fantasy auction strategy! Coming up with your fantasy auction strategy…
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There are two existing strategies for how to pick a fantasy football defense. Some people like drafting the best projected defense late in the draft…
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Whether it was LeVeon Bell in 2016 or DeAndre Hopkins in 2022, it is always difficult to decide when to draft suspended players in fantasy…
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Winning a fantasy football league requires three things: a well-prepared fantasy draft strategy, careful attention to waivers, and luck. You can’t coach luck and attention…
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I claim that in fantasy football, median points scored is a better metric for evaluating player quality than mean points scored is. A player with…
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Making money betting on sports is not easy – you either need to know more about sports, more about statistical modeling, or have access to…
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The credit assignment problem in sports analytics asks the fundamental question of how to divide the credit from a particular event to each of the…
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In our last article, we looked at how best to model the number of batters faced per inning in a typical baseball game. In this…
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