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The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

364: Mailbag 4/10/20

The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

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Fantasy Sports, Football, Sports

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Should we only care about predictive metrics in fantasy football? Which running back ranked outside the top 20 could finish in the top 5 this year? Is Alvin Kamara's positive touchdown regression being oversold? Those questions -- and more -- are...

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:12.1

What's up everyone, it's JJ Zacharyse and the editor-in-chief at FandallnetNumberFire.com.

0:17.0

This is episode 364 of the Lay-Round Podcasts and many shows that are part of the Fandall

0:22.2

Podcast Network.

0:23.2

Thanks for tuning in.

0:25.2

We've gotten a lot better at analyzing fantasy football through the years, like a lot

0:28.7

better.

0:29.8

If you go back and read the things that I was putting together when I first started

0:32.6

writing an analyzing fantasy, it's legitimately not very good.

0:36.9

I'm not ashamed of the content necessarily, but I've gotten better at analyzing and

0:41.1

the whole community has too.

0:43.1

As we've gotten better, there's been a push to find really predictive metrics.

0:47.8

To ignore this stuff that doesn't matter as much and focus on stuff that's only predictive.

0:52.2

But I don't really agree with that.

0:53.6

I don't disagree with the idea that finding predictive metrics is great, but football statistics

0:57.9

that aren't predictive are still very helpful when analyzing fantasy football, because it helps

1:02.3

us understand regression.

1:04.3

And it helps us figure out what matters and what doesn't when our competition may not

1:08.7

totally get it.

1:10.0

I'm bringing this up because this week I got a lot of questions about regression.

1:14.2

One was from atFFZinger that said, Touchdown Regression is the most commonly discussed

1:19.2

and rightfully so, regression in fantasy football.

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