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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

The 5 Best Advanced Stats For Fantasy Football

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Fantasy football is more than just box scores and vibes. In this episode, Jeff breaks down the five most important advanced stats every fantasy player should be using to evaluate talent. From expected fantasy points to yards per route run, these are the metrics that separate smart managers and savvy traders from everyone else. Whether you’re grinding film, building models, or just trying to stop overreacting to touchdowns, this episode will sharpen the way you see player value and give you the edge your league doesn’t have.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Rap back, where you at?

0:14.2

Yo, what's up?

0:15.6

It's Thursday, October 16th.

0:17.5

I'm Jeff.

0:18.5

This is the rant.

0:20.6

And on Thursdays on this show, usually we get to freelance a little bit,

0:24.0

Tuesdays and Thursdays. I like that because I hate doing the same darn podcast over and over and over again.

0:29.4

It gets me so bored with this thing. So it's been exciting this season. And I appreciate all the

0:34.7

feedback on these one-off shows. Today I wanted to get into something that often is like second nature to me,

0:41.7

but I realize for a lot of folks out there who are maybe statistically inclined

0:46.0

and maybe use some of these advanced stats but don't know exactly which ones to use to truly gauge player value. I wanted to break it down

0:55.6

for you, five advanced stats that I use. And they're not hyper advanced. So you don't have to

0:59.9

turn a podcast off right now if you're not a stats person. Anybody can use these. You do not

1:05.1

need a mathematics degree of any sense. Heck, you could have failed algebra. I don't really care. You don't need to know math

1:12.7

to use these stats effectively. So let's dive into it. Of course, you can get these over at Ftnfantasy.com.

1:19.4

And one thing that I do produce on a weekly basis is the first stat on the list here,

1:25.1

expected fantasy points. Expected fantasy points.

1:34.1

So expected fantasy points is sort of an offshoot of expected production in general.

1:39.8

So for every play, you can generate things like expected rushing yards on a running play or expected receiving yards, expected catch rate, expected completion percentage, all of that.

1:46.5

Expected touchdown.

1:48.2

Any of those things can be generated.

1:50.1

And it's pretty easy, well, you just need the data to do so.

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