Fantasy Football

We’ll use 50 years of NFL kicking data to inform the least – or most – important decision of your fantasy season: Drafting a kicker.

Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady? Carson Wentz or Drew Brees? Choosing the right Fantasy Football QB each week is challenging. To remove some of the guesswork from the decision-making process, I devised an approach that’s worked well over the past few seasons. Read on to learn more about using the Beta Distribution to pick your weekly starting QB.

Drafting a rookie in Fantasy Football can be a risky move, but it can pay huge dividends if you happen to snag a diamond in the rough. After accounting for a player’s draft position, do physical attributes (height/weight) and combine performance (40 yard dash, bench press, etc.) provide any additional explanatory power of points scored during a player’s first NFL season? I’ll explore this question for rookie Running Backs and Wide Receivers.