It seems every offseason there becomes more and more player movement in the NFL. Between free agency, trades, the draft, and players getting released, there’s an immense amount of fluctuation surrounding target-shares and how teams will distribute targets. The goal of this article is to evaluate what teams looked like in 2018, and what changes […]
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Future NFL Draft Prospects: July 9
The NFL is built upon what college football provides. Every year, there’s a focus on incoming rookies and players who are going to make an impact for their new teams, but where did those players come from? What did they look like as underclassmen in college? How productive were they? The goal of this article is […]
Declining Stars
An age old question in fantasy football is… how do we determine when a player is declining in skill? A lot of research has been done over the years on this topic, to varying results. The NFL is a complex beast, specifically when trying to figure out how long a player will sustain success. There’s […]
Filling the Void: Chicago Bears Running Backs
It seems every offseason there becomes more and more player movement in the NFL. Between free agency, trades, the draft and players getting released, there’s an immense amount of fluctuation surrounding target-shares and how teams will distribute targets. The goal of this article is to evaluate what teams looked like in 2018 and what changes […]
Fantasy Football Dynasty Strategy: Advanced Tactics VII
Structural advantages were something we discussed a while ago, and it will be the main focus of this piece for the next couple of weeks. There’s a few very important concepts I use as building blocks, that once explained, will make the success probability charts easier to apply strategy-wise. Dynasty leagues have a plethora of concepts and ideas […]
Future NFL Draft Prospects: July 2
The NFL is built upon what college football provides. Every year, there’s a focus on incoming rookies and players who are going to make an impact for their new teams, but where did those players come from? What did they look like as underclassmen in college? How productive were they? The goal of this article is […]
Suspensions and Potential PUPs
As we shift closer and closer towards the 2019 season, it’s important to have a good grasp of context outside of pure player evaluation. As we all know, there’s an incredible amount of context that goes into a player succeeding or failing in a given season. Considering that, it seemed apt to create a piece […]
NFL RBs & College Workload
Our commander in chief, Jeff Mans, threw out a list of about 300 article ideas (ok, really about 75, but still) for the summer, and I thought this was a great topic to tackle when I saw it. Today you get a peek inside my process as a researcher, and something I do for fun […]
Filling the Void: Oakland Raiders Receiving Options
It seems every offseason there becomes more and more player movement in the NFL. Between free agency, trades, the draft and players getting released, there’s an immense amount of fluctuation surrounding target-shares and how teams will distribute targets. The goal of this article is to evaluate what teams looked like in 2018 and what changes […]
Future NFL Draft Prospects: June 25
The NFL is built upon what college football provides. Every year, there’s a focus on incoming rookies and players who are going to make an impact for their new teams, but where did those players come from? What did they look like as underclassmen in college? How productive were they? The goal of this article is […]
