230: Scouting Through Data
The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast
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🗓️ 25 March 2019
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Lay-Round Podcast with your host, JJ Zacharyse. |
| 0:05.6 | What's up everyone, it's JJ Zacharyse in the Editor-in-Chief at Fandall and at NumberFire.com |
| 0:17.0 | and this is episode 230 of the Late Round Podcast, one of the many shows that are part |
| 0:21.0 | of the Number Fire Podcast Network. |
| 0:23.4 | Thanks for tuning in. |
| 0:24.6 | My prospect model gets referenced so much over the offseason to the point where I'm sure |
| 0:28.2 | some of you are sick of those references. |
| 0:30.3 | I mean my model even has a parody account on Twitter. |
| 0:33.0 | I've talked a lot about the inputs that go into it in order to find running back some |
| 0:36.6 | wide receivers who look like they'll be able to be successful at the next level. |
| 0:40.0 | But I thought it would be cool to get a different perspective from someone else who |
| 0:42.6 | prospects through data. |
| 0:44.4 | So I hit up my friend and fellow fantasy analyst, Anthony Amico. |
| 0:47.9 | Anthony's been working on his own models and he does a lot of testing to see which statistics |
| 0:51.9 | matter and which ones don't when looking at these running back some wide receivers. |
| 0:55.9 | I hope for you while listening to our chat is to obviously learn something. |
| 0:59.4 | But maybe it might inspire you to start building something yourself. |
| 1:02.6 | As always, thanks for listening. |
| 1:04.6 | Alright, let's start by getting a little bit philosophical. |
| 1:09.5 | Why do you think so many scouts are against heavily-wing production when prospecting wide |
| 1:14.5 | receivers and running backs? |
| 1:16.4 | Why does the eye tests have to mean absolutely everything to them? |
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