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The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

256: Positive Regression Candidates

The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

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Fantasy Sports, Football, Sports

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Which players were unlucky statistically last yea…

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0:00.0

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

0:11.9

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

0:17.1

and this is episode 256 of the Late Round Podcast, one of the many shows that are part

0:21.1

of the Number Fire Podcast Network.

0:23.0

Thanks for tuning in.

0:24.6

So we've gone over team-level regression.

0:26.8

We looked at negative regression candidates.

0:28.7

And today, on the last Late Round Podcast regression show of the offseason, we're going

0:32.8

to look at positive regression candidates.

0:35.2

Now remember, positive regression is not the same as progression.

0:39.1

Positive regression tells us that a player was more or less unlucky, and then will return

0:42.9

to a former state.

0:44.4

In order to return to that former state, his numbers are going to look better, hence positive

0:48.8

and not negative.

0:50.0

The term progression actually says that the player got better.

0:53.4

Now there are instances where the two things will work together.

0:56.0

You might find a second year player who were projecting to progress, but all the while,

1:00.0

he has some positive regression in his favor as well.

1:03.2

It's important to remember the distinction between those two things though.

1:06.0

So we're going to look at some positive regression candidates today.

1:08.6

And really, these candidates are mostly guys who are a little bit unlucky in the Touchdown

1:12.4

Call last season.

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