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For the most recent season, she wrote two metaphors…if we can call it that. I looked at some of my best (and worst) predictions for fantasy football players. It’s not just about winning a lap – or laughing at how dangerous I am to Cam Akers – but it’s meant to help us all learn more about building expectations and managing expectations. So, with early ideas for the 2023 fantasy season already in the air, let’s examine our quarterbacks and step back this week. Quarterback predictions Hassan Trevor Lawrence, Jax:…

The opening weekend of the NFL playoffs is just around the corner, and while we have to wait for these wild card matches before we know who will survive and advance, we already know, thanks to internal injuries, who wins the health battle heading into these contests. Internal injury algorithm Gain the sum of health points for all four main position combinations for each team – Offensive Line, Offensive Skill, Defensive Line, and Secondary. This is used as the basis for the health team results listed below in this column.…

Welcome to the weekly fantasy football powerhouse schedule, or fantasy football matchup rankings, column. The word of the day is “APA,” which might make you say, “DAMN!” But it really is Modified points are allowed. Essentially, it is the “true” measure of a schedule’s strength as it breaks down matches by the strength of the (positional) opponent it faces each week. The difference in defense facing a top player versus basement talent will skew the fantasy points allowed for a team. APA adapts previous opponents and gives us a “allowed…

I hope you don’t play in the fantasy football tournament this week. Sure, run a one-week draft (for fun), a DFS group… whatever… but as you’ll see, the Week 18 waiver wire is about as messy as it gets. There are many teams of uncertain usage with many influencing factors. Hopefully we’ll get more clarity later in the week, but here’s the current list of picks that could help and/or teams with backups in play. Attention This week is different, since it’s week 18 with many moving (and unconfirmed) parts.…

Target and touch aggregates are important, but not as important as market share. “Goals” are mostly receiver stats (although there are some notable early exceptions). Touches are the currency of undoing. What we do is really simple. For pass catchers, market share is goals divided by the team’s pass attempts. For running backs, touches are divided by the team’s plays from scrimmage (not team touches, to be clear). Shot counts, target depth, and touch type (backhand receptions are more valuable than RB carriers) are also important but generally won’t be…

Welcome to the weekly fantasy football powerhouse schedule, or fantasy football matchup rankings, column. The word of the day is “APA,” which might make you say, “DAMN!” But it really is Modified points are allowed. Essentially, it’s the “true” measure of the strength of the schedule because it breaks down matches by the strength of the (positional) opponent it faces each week. The difference in defense facing a top player versus basement talent will skew the fantasy points allowed for a team. APA adapts previous opponents and gives us a…