By Henry Johnson The task of predicting fantasy football kickers’ performance has, on multiple occasions and by multiple analysts, been deemed a fool’s errand. Some kickers will do well and others will do poorly—anything...
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By Kurt Bullard Football fans – and sports fans in general – abhor the fact that mistakes made by the referees at the end of games can influence the result of the contest. Nowhere was this seemingly more apparent than in this...
By Barrett Hansen Super Bowl XLVIII between the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos was one of the most hyped championship matchups in recent memory: Peyton Manning and the highest-scoring offense in NFL history were pitted...
Now up on Advanced NFL Stats: Kevin Meers tries to properly value coach’s challenges. The coach’s challenge is an important yet poorly understood part of the NFL. We know challenges are an asset, but past that, we do not...
Part V: Final Player Pricing by Sam Waters This is the fifth and last section of our guide to calculating player value in fantasy football. Each part lays out a different aspect of the process. Part I, Part II, Part III, and...
Part III: Projecting Draft Pick Value by Sam Waters This is the third section of our guide to calculating player value in fantasy football. Each part will lay out a different aspect of the process. Part I and Part II are...
By David Freed With the NFL’s first regular season games looming, now seems like a good time to revisit key offseason transactions and discuss how they might actually impact the performance of certain teams. Today we’ll focus...
by Ben Blatt The last time we played around with sportswriter analytics, we wondered if we could algorithmically determine the author of a column based on his favorite words (we could). For a followup, I decided to look at the...