Category Archives: Fantasy Football
2014: Another round of busts
Not much has changed since 2013. Looks like I’ll finish the 2014 season 5-9 after starting with another weak draft: Round 1, #7: WR Calvin Johnson. Thought this was a no-brainer, but injuries left me without his services during the … Continue reading
How to fill your roster with draft busts
As the 2013 fantasy football season draws to a close, I am struggling to reconcile the amount of pre-draft research I did with how terrible my draft turned out to be. I began the season feeling like I had a … Continue reading
The League: a television flop
The League is a sitcom about a group of 30-something adults who are in a fantasy football league. After seeing the promo (and being a fantasy football addict), I raced to the DVR to acquire some League action. I’ve since … Continue reading
Fantasy football lessons learned in 2009
Last year I wrote Fantasy football non-lessons learned in 2008 so maybe this is becoming an annual tradition. My sorry draft this season has hopefully taught me a few lessons that I can learn from going forward: Avoid one-hit wonders … Continue reading
Group think among fantasy football experts
In my last post, I talked about grading the rankings of fantasy football experts using the root mean square error (RMSE), and listed some results for Week 9. This time, I took the data from ten analysts and examined their … Continue reading
Grading fantasy football analysts with the root mean square
UPDATE: added the ESPN guys. Last year I considered writing some code that would grade the performance of fantasy football analysts. This year I’ve actually finished up the code and can post a few results. What I am doing is … Continue reading
Fantasy football: temporary trades, borrowing, and collusion
Here’s the scenario: player A has two QBs on a bye in Week 8, and player B has two QBs on a bye in Week 9. Both players want to keep their QBs, but they also need to cover their … Continue reading
The annual fantasy football woes
Just like last year, I am finding that what I thought was an awesome draft has turned out to be less than mediocre. The season is halfway over in my 16-team league, and I remain unimpressed with my top 10 … Continue reading
Fantasy football non-lessons learned in 2008
I just lost Week 15 which means I’m out of the Championship game and will be playing for third place. I sort of choked because I made a bunch of lineup tweaks and started these guys: QB Shaun Hill [10 … Continue reading
Fantastic Fall
I went into the 2008 fantasy football season thinking that I’d scored a hole-in-one with my draft: LaDainian Tomlinson Terrell Owens Earnest Graham Wes Welker Jason Witten Willie Parker Jake Delhomme Patrick Crayton Colts DST Matt Schaub Eleven weeks into … Continue reading