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Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

Rankings vs. projections & what factors fantasy analysis doesn't get right

Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

Yahoo Sports

Football, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, Sports, Nfl

4.3790 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode, Matt Harmon is joined by Ben Gretch to discuss two of fantasy football's most consumed prediction metrics: rankings and projections. How do fantasy analysts such as ourselves come up with them? What situations should you read one versus the other? And in what situations are they completely useless?

Transcript

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0:00.0

massive show for you here today as Ben Gretz joins to discuss rankings, projections, how we go about building these things and some of the faulty ways that we build this thing and how chaos truly rules fantasy analysis.

0:15.3

Where do you see mistakes in fantasy analysis when it comes to applying data to specific situations?

0:20.8

And where are some of the situations the community might be wrong this year? Drake London. Yeah. fantasy analysis when it comes to applying data to specific situations.

0:23.8

And where are some of the situations the community might be wrong this year?

0:29.7

Drake London, Jackson Smith and Jigba, Javante Williams, tons of players you can benefit from in drafts this year.

0:31.2

Let's get into it. It's Thursday, August 8th.

0:39.3

I'm Matt Harmon.

0:40.0

Welcome to the Yahoo Fantasy Forecast.

0:42.0

It is a hell of a day.

0:43.9

It's a talk ball.

0:44.4

Actually, it's a horrible day to talk ball because this morning, as we're taping this, August 7th,

0:51.6

Josh Downs, sustained a high ankle sprain in practice.

0:53.7

So actually, it is a terrible day to talk ball, but I'm hoping that it's going to become

0:58.0

a lot better here because joining me to talk a little ball is the one and only Ben Gretsch

1:04.4

of the stealing signal substack.

1:06.8

Ben, what's going on, buddy?

1:08.9

Not much, man.

1:09.8

Excited to join you.

1:11.2

We got a fun topic today.

1:12.6

Yeah, the injuries are starting coming from camp.

1:14.9

It's that reminder that the whole offseason is so fun to think about all this

1:18.3

positive stuff.

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