This post describes a Shiny app that calculates custom fantasy football rankings and projections for your league.  The app allows you to modify your league settings, and calculates robust averages[...] The post Custom Fantasy Football Rankings and Projections for Your League: A Shiny App in R appeared first on Fantasy ... [Read more...]

Many visitors of the site have expressed interest in learning R, so I’ve put together a list of beginning resources for learning R: Use this intro to R: http://www.statmethods.net/ Check out[...] The post How Can I Learn R? appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics. [Read more...]

In prior posts, I demonstrated how to download, calculate, and compare fantasy football projections from ESPN, CBS, NFL.com, and FantasyPros, which aggregates projections from many different sources to increase prediction accuracy.  Last year, I compared fantasy projections[...] The post Which Site Has the Best Fantasy Football Projections? 2014 Update appeared ... [Read more...]

Many articles have been written on why R is better than Excel for data analysis.  In this post, I will summarize the reasons why R is advantageous in most data[...] The post Why R is Better Than Excel for Fantasy Football (and most other) Data Analysis appeared first on Fantasy ... [Read more...]

By popular demand, I updated the Fantasy Football Draft Optimizer shiny app with two changes: The app now takes into account how many teams are in your league when estimating[...] The post Update to Fantasy Football Draft Optimizer shiny app appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics. [Read more...]

In this post, I use a Shiny app in R to determine the best possible players to pick in a fantasy football auction draft.  The app takes projections from FantasyPros,[...] The post Win Your Fantasy Football Auction Draft: Calculate the Optimal Players to Draft with this Shiny App in R ... [Read more...]

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[...] The post Calculate Fantasy Players’ Risk Levels using R appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics. [Read more...]

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[...] The post Downloading CBS Fantasy Football Projections in R appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics. [Read more...]