Earlier this month I detailed the hidden value of college special teams stats for wide receiver prospects and how they might help us identify undervalued commodities. Perhaps unsurprisingly, special teams stats matter for running backs too. In a recent round of testing I solved for 24 different variables, including a mix of rush yards, rushing touchdowns, receptions and receiving touchdowns and their per-game siblings over the…...

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When Wes Welker left Texas Tech for the NFL, he was a 5 foot 9 inch 186 pound prospect with a 4.65 forty and a 30 inch vertical. When Antonio Brown left Central Michigan, he was a 5 foot 10 inch 186 pound prospect with a 4.56 forty 105 inch broad jump. I can only imagine the doom and gloom articles that team RotoViz would have…...

  A lot has been written here and elsewhere about wide receiver size, and whether big wide receivers are more productive than smaller WRs. We know that heavier WRs tend to accrue more yards than their lighter counterparts, even after controlling for draft position. We also know that WRs taller than 6 feet 2 inches accounted for a majority of the double-digit touchdown reception seasons…...

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Last summer, I introduced the non-Quarterback Dominator Rating (nQBDR), which was an attempt to quantify (using market share) the extent to which any given runner dominated the non-QB rushing production on his team…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

Shawn’s Siegele’s Zero RB article written last year may not have been the first anti-RB-early article ever written, but it certainly crystallized an idea and made it understandable in a way that people appreciate. Some part of Shawn’s article argues against the idea of Value Based Drafting that most people understand, while Shawn has also separately advocated a theory of fantasy football that stresses winning…...

  The Dude: I don’t see any connection to Vietnam, Walter. Walter Sobchak: Well, there isn’t a literal connection, Dude. The Dude: Walter, face it, there isn’t any connection. There isn’t a literal connection between the Big Lebowski and this post either, but if you stay with me, I’ll explain why I prefer to draft into the wind, and, possibly, give you permission to have…...

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