Hey everyone, JJ here with another late round podcast, ReWind.

Last year I sat down with Josh Hermsmeyer of 538 to talk about predictive data.

We've got all these numbers in the fantasy football world, but a lot of those numbers

don't have a whole lot of meaning.

What types of numbers do?

What's important?

And how do we adjust our analysis as a result?

Josh helped answer all of these questions last March.

I hope that you enjoy the interview, and I'll talk to you on Friday with the weekly

mail bag episode.

All right, Josh.

So ariards.com and the work that you've done with ariards as a statistic, it's become

a really big piece to the fantasy football community.

Can you talk about what led you to creating that site and why ariards have become such

a focus?

I guess I created it because I, first of all, I found the data and that was just really

fortuitous.

I was digging through kind of a public databases and Python code and R code that was

able to at least dip or toe into this game center API that the NFL has on their website.

And it was really arcane and none of it was documented very well.

And in any event, it led me to kind of digging in a little further.

And then I found out that the NFL was actually publishing incomplete ariards.

...