Hello and welcome to the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast. I'm Dalton Del Don sitting in a place that is so many fires in California. It is dark outside, even though we're in the morning. I'm happy to be joined by Ben Baldwin of the Athletic. When we first earmarked this few weeks ago, the Powers at B said,

have me doing an advanced stat show. And I immediately thought of Ben. I emailed him out of the

blue, also known as the Computer Cowboy. Thanks for joining us, Ben. Thanks for having me.

Happy to talk about all these advanced stats and computer cowboy type things, and looking forward to this.

For sure. A couple quick headlines before we get to that. I wanted to spend this time

hyping up Damien Harris, who's looked so good in practice. But immediately before we started

recording, Miles Sanders has been listed as week to week with the lower body injury. Obviously,

that's big fantasy news.

It seems vague, and the latest reports is that he will be ready for week one. So hopefully

this is nothing. Obviously, you'd bump up Boston Scott. I personally haven't moved him

anywhere in my rankings, but if for some reason he had Sanders ahead of Henry, Mixon, Drake, or God forbid, Clyde Edwards, Hilaire,

then I'd consider maybe moving him down

because obviously a lower leg injury already right now

in a year this is bound to have so much uncertainty

isn't the best news.

All right, let's talk some stats.

Some can be descriptive versus predictive. They're just a piece

of the puzzle, man. No stat is perfect. In fantasy baseball, it seems like that world has embraced

them far more. You know, if you point to Babbip, you can point to regression. Football,

the world definitely exists. In fantasy, I feel like there are few people other than me writing about Wopper.

Um, I personally just like having a stat I can point to as after I make a statement as

opposed to just some subjective thing.

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