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Fantasy Football for Hackers

There’s a First Time for Everything Like some 75 million other Americans, I am playing fantasy football this year. Unlike most of them, I know virtually nothing about football. I would estimate that I’ve watched somewhere around five games total in my life, most of them Super Bowls. I don’t know the rules beyond the very basics and I can’t name a single NFL player off the top of my head.

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Fantasy Football for Hackers II — An Interactive Visualization of Average Draft Position vs Season Projections

ADP vs Season Projections In the first part of this series, Fantasy Football for Hackers I, I walked through the process of coming up with my own draft strategy using scraped projections and simulated rosters. A lot of people pointed out that I probably would have done better if I had just looked up the average draft positions and picked the best available players. As one user on /r/fantasyfootball so eloquently put it:

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