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

What's up everyone, it's JJ Zacharyson in this episode, 775 of the Lay-Round Fantasy

Football Podcast sponsored by Fandool.

Thanks for tuning in.

I sort of view my season-long fantasy football player evaluation process in two distinct

buckets.

The first is the projection.

How am I just generally feeling about a player in his situation?

There's a lot of research that goes into that.

I'm looking at historical peripheral numbers for each player, digging into coaching changes,

looking at the type of role that he might play, looking at his prospect score if he's

a younger player, all of that stuff.

I'm grouping all of that research up, I'm just calling it a player's projection.

I'm projecting how I think a player might perform.

That's the bucket that a lot of people probably stop at, which is understandable.

When you have a good feel for a player based on your research, you can start to put players

in a list, you can start to rank them.

But I think there's another component that's really important here too, and that's historical

market trends.

If you've listened to this podcast in the past, then you know that I'm very, very into

analyzing historical average draft position data.

I think we can learn a lot from the fantasy football market.

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