Why is the NYT wasting space on fantasy football? Football is a brutal, ignorant sport, in which players serve as gladiators, doomed to brain damage. Fantasy football is a giant fraud, wherein adolescent couch potatoes pretend that they are masters of the brain-damaging NFL universe. I did not think the NYT would stoop so low...
@John Ranta Because it's fun and a lot of people enjoy it. Maybe you need to lighten up and relax instead of name calling which, by the way is adolescent.
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@Deb N. Here’s why I don’t “lighten up” about supporting and patronizing football. “A new study suggests that chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a progressive, degenerative brain disease found in people with a history of repeated head trauma, may be more common among football players than previously thought. The study, published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), found CTE in 99 percent of brains obtained from National Football League (NFL) players, as well at 91 percent of college football players and 21 percent of high school football players.”
We need to boycott football, so that it fades away, not play fantasy GM.
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@John Ranta
It may get some kids interested in Statistics/Math - something that they may relate to. That is why...
That article ended rather abruptly. Did you cut the rest of it???
This article does not make sense unless you discuss the different kind of leagues. If you don't control for that, the output will be misinterpreted.
Some leagues have 2 QBs. Some leagues have a superflex. Some leagues have 4 WRs and only 2 RBs. Some leagues modify the scoring to increase a position's importance.
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I have no interest in football.
The excellent inforgraphics drew me in.
They tell a moderately complex story with clarity.
Well done.
Thanks.
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Would love to see this for non-PPR leagues and also understand whether being a popular "keeper" has an influence on the width of a player's pick # range. I'm guessing it does, but I don't see an indication of whether these are keeper leagues.
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Also: gorgeous viz.
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Nice infographic. QBs diverge so much because different leagues have different scoring rules. Some give QBs 6 point per TD, others (most?) give 4 points. Some leagues start 2 QBs. Hence the variance.
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"At first glance, the distributions of picks reflect the consensus best practices for drafting strategies: Pick running backs and wide receivers first because they will generate the most fantasy points for your team."
The part about rb's and wr's generating the most fantasy points for your team is wrong. QB's outscore rb's and wr's but positional scarcity means that a good rb or wr is more valuable than a good qb. Please correct or clarify.
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@Bryce Thomas
This is a cool article...love the data and the visuals. But you're exactly right. In a 10 team league you need only 10 QBs out of 32...but you'll need 20 RBs, 20 WRs and another 10 flex players. Position flexibility is why WRs and RBs are drafted earlier than QBs.
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