In a previous post, I showed how to determine the best starting lineup to draft in an auction draft using an optimizer tool.  In this post, I use a Shiny app in R to determine the best possible players to pick in a fantasy... [Read more...]

In a previous post, I showed how to determine the best starting lineup to draft using an optimizer tool.  The optimizer identifies the players that maximize your projected points within your risk tolerance.  The optimizer does not take i... [Read more...]

In this post, I calculate the highest value you should bid on each player in an auction draft—what I refer to as the "bid up to" value.  In a previous post, I showed how to determine the best starting lineup to draft using an optimizer tool.  The "bid up ... [Read more...]

In this post, I calculate the expected fantasy points scored by players based on their position and position rank.  This post is modeled after a post by Chase Stuart (see here), where he calculated players' expected fantasy points as a functi... [Read more...]

In prior posts, I demonstrated how to download, calculate, and compare fantasy football projections from ESPN, CBS, and NFL.com.  In my last post, I demonstrated how to download FantasyPros projections, which aggregate projections from many different sources to increase prediction accuracy.  In this post, I will compare fantasy football ... [Read more...]

In prior posts, I have demonstrated how to download, calculate, and compare fantasy football projections from ESPN, CBS, and NFL.com and how to calculate players' risk levels. In this post, I will demonstrate how... [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 football players' risk levels.  Just like when determin... [Read more...]

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, we will have to rely on our best guess of how many points each player will score.  We will use 2012 ... [Read more...]

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 calculate the projected points for your custom league ... [Read more...]

In this post, I will show how to download NFL.com fantasy football projections using R.The R ScriptThe R Script for downloading fantasy football projections from NFL.com is located at: https://github.com/dadrivr/FantasyFootballAnalyticsR... [Read more...]

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 fantasy team.  The projections on ESPN.com are currently from last year—they haven't been updated yet for the ... [Read more...]

About This BlogMy name is Isaac and I'm a Ph.D. student in Clinical Psychology. Why am I writing about fantasy football and data analysis? Because fantasy football involves the intersection of two things I love: sports and statistics. With this blog, I... [Read more...]