What's up everyone it's JJ Zachary in the editor-in-chief at Fandall and at numberfire.com

and this episode 357 of the late round podcast when many shows that are part of the Fandall

podcast network, thanks for tuning in.

So over the last month or two I've consistently been saying things like my model doesn't care

all that much about the NFL combine and people tend to overrate the combine.

That's all based off of what I've researched but I haven't done the same type of research

as today's guest has.

That guest is Kevin Cole.

You guys might know him from twitter.com as at Kevin Cole PFF but Kevin's a data scientist

at Pro Football Focus needs one of the most thoughtful, processed football analysts

that you're going to find.

Recently he put together an article on PFF called players with the best NFL combine

results for fantasy football success.

And in that article he did some really interesting analysis on how important the combine

is for each position in fantasy football.

So I wanted to talk to him about it and that's what I did.

So Kevin you wrote an article on Pro Football Focus recently you talked about utilizing

combine results to help in fantasy football and in doing so you used a tree based modeling

approach.

Have you explained that approach and how it works?

Sure.

Not to get too technical but what happens here and I illustrated in the piece is that all

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