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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Our follow up article discussing how to model runs per inning by using the batters faced per inning model is live. In studying the statistics…
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When analyzing pick values in creating my recent NFL draft value chart, I was led to ask some questions related to accuracy in the NFL…
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While watching the first round of the 2022 NFL draft, all I could think about was different ways to construct an NFL draft value chart…
March, April, and May constitute the best portion of the sporting year; March Madness, the Masters, the NBA playoffs, the NFL Draft, MLB opening day,…