This is the Lay-Round Podcast with your host, JJ Zacharyse.

What's up everyone, it's JJ Zacharyse and the Editor-in-Chief at Fandall at NumberFire.com

and this is episode 226 of the Lay-Round Podcast, one of the many shows that are part of

the number fire podcast network.

Thanks for tuning in.

We talk about data and analytics on this show.

It's not that I think that numbers can tell you everything there is to know about football,

but they do help spot trends.

And they help capture things that our eyes simply can't capture.

In the fantasy football world, we're in the business of predicting.

We're trying to forecast how players are going to perform statistically in a given season.

So analysts or even just fantasy managers who want to win their home league, we crunch

numbers.

We try to find things that will help us better predict what's about to happen.

But what are those things?

What pieces of data matter most when we're projecting player performance?

It's a question I get all the time, and it's a question I've tried to help answer

throughout the 200 plus episodes of this show.

But to dig even deeper on the topic, I wanted to talk to Josh Hormsmeier.

If you don't know Josh, he's the owner and creator of the website Ariards.com, which

has become a huge resource for fantasy enthusiasts.

He's now writing for 538, and you can find him on Twitter at Frisco Josh constantly

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