Presenting Rush Yards over Expectation (aka Analytics Unite!)

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4.4 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Marcas Grant is joined by two guests for the second NFL Fantasy Football Podcast of the week! First, Cynthia Frelund and Marcas discuss the biggest news of the week like Will Fuller and Jerick McKinnon both discussing staying healthy in 2020 and the premiere of 'Hard Knocks' with the Chargers and Rams (2:52). Next, Cynthia does a deep dive into some Game Theory surrounding the Browns and Cowboys offenses (12:30). Then, Nick Shook comes onto the show to explain a NextGen stat called expected rushing yards and how it can help while drafting your 2020 fantasy team (25:18). Cynthia and Marcas round out the show by giving their top 5 fantasy rookies (34:30) and answering some Twitter questions (43:27).

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:04.0	Who are the 25 greatest football players to grace the gridiron since the year 2000,
0:10.3	introducing NFL Daily's top 25 players of the last 25 years?
0:16.1	Join me, Greg Rosenthal, and an all-star cast of media personalities,
0:20.6	including Mina Kime, Steve Weish, Kevin Harlan, and more
0:24.1	for a look at football's best since the turn of the century.
0:28.4	Listen to NFL Daily's top 25 players of the last 25 years
0:32.1	starting on June 30th on the IHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts,
0:36.9	or wherever you get your podcast.
0:38.8	What is up? Welcome to another edition of the NFL fantasy football show presented by
0:55.2	Caesar's Reward. It's me, your man, M.G. Marcus Grant, socially distancing and masking
0:59.4	when and where necessary. And we are just rolling along, getting a little bit closer to the
1:06.1	start of the season. Weeks away from the NFL season getting kicked off for 2020s. Of course, we got
1:13.4	plenty of good stuff to talk about a couple of guests that I'm really excited about. I know I know
1:17.5	I say that all the time, but it's true. I get excited because I feel like we have a lot of good guests,
1:21.7	a lot of smart people who come on this show. Going to dive into some new statistics.
1:27.1	A lot of you folks out there are looking for the advanced analytics trying to get an edge.
1:30.3	And so we're going to introduce you to a new thing.
1:33.3	Rushing Yards Overexpected.
1:35.3	Nick Shook will jump in to talk about that a little bit later on in the show.
1:39.3	Also going to have Cynthia Freeland stop by because why not?
1:41.3	It's always wonderful to have her stop by the show as well.
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