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We’re continuing our Twitter discovery lists today with a less formally defined list than we posted either Monday or Tuesday.  The list below was arrived at using the very strict methodology as follows: find list of guys followed by draft mavens, go through the list and pick out the people whose tweets I always pause to read, limit the list at 20.  I’m sure I…...

Yesterday we profiled five accounts to follow for draft thoughts in the segment of under 2,000 followers.  Because this is an exercise in discovery, I wanted to profile five more guys that you should be following, who all somehow have less than 1,000 followers.  I was actually shocked to see some of the names on this list and I rate the fact that these guys…...

Just a quick post here to throw in a name that didn’t quite make the cut for my other Patterson article today.  DHB is similar to Patterson on a few measures but then deviates from Patterson on a few others.  For instance, DHB actually caught a much larger share of his team’s touchdowns even if they caught about the same number on a per game…...

The whole idea behind using an algorithm to project wide receivers to the NFL is that you can reduce error rates by looking at a player’s college record.  College production isn’t a perfect predictor of pro success, it’s just the best one we’ve got and can probably beat a scouting model in a head to head competition.  This fits with research done over the years…...

Each day this week we’re going to shine the spotlight on Twitter accounts that cover the NFL draft.  We’re very data oriented at RotoViz, but the cumulative observation of humans is its own datapoint, so I usually have a draft related Twitter list open in my Tweetdeck.  Here’s a link to my NFL draft list which has over 450 members.  How did I build this…...

The post below is a re-post of an article originally written on FantasyDouche.com in 2012. I’m starting to feel about sample sizes the way that Fletch felt about ball bearings.  If you haven’t seen the movie I don’t think I’m spoiling the plot at all by saying that he thought they were pretty important…....

Stedman Bailey will be the guy that ends up going a little earlier than expected in your rookie draft if you have any followers of algorithmic projection systems in your dynasty league.  Bailey’s 2012 season at WVU was so impressive on the stat sheet that it’s actually difficult to come up with good comparables for him. …...

This app might need a catchier name, but what it lacks in marketing genius it makes up for in usability. One of the things that’s useful to do when you’re searching for daily hoops bargains is to look at the players that will be out that night and then find their backup.  But sometimes it’s not as simple as finding the other center on the…...

One of our followers on Twitter asks if Ian Mahinmi is a decent start given Roy Hibbert’s suspension.  James Goldstein speculated in his lineup piece that IND will play more small lineups with Hibbert’s absence.  That strikes me as being correct.  However, given Mahinmi’s low salary on most sites, there’s probably some value in playing him tonight.  We can actually look at a correlation matrix…...

The Twittersphere erupted today when Jay Glazer reported that the Chiefs have a deal in principal to acquire Alex Smith from the 49ers.  The Chiefs will give up their 2nd round pick this year in order to do that.  I have a few thoughts on this trade, so let’s go through them in order of how much I agree with what I think conventional wisdom…...

I think there’s a decent chance that most of the RotoViz contributors end up liking Tavon Austin’s WVU teammate Stedman Bailey a little more than Austin in upcoming dynasty drafts…....

In the first part of this series, Shawn Siegele layed out the bearish view on Matthew Stafford.  In this installment Frank DuPont/The Fantasy Douche is going to do his best to lay out the bullish view. First, let me just say that when I went to check Matthew Stafford’s ADP (hoping that it would have sunk below QB12) I was totally disappointed and Stafford might…...

If you’re the type of person who just rips open boxes, unwilling to read instructions, then you can check out the app at this dedicated page.  But if you’re the type of person who proceeds with caution, then I have some thoughts below on using the app…....

Tight end is a position that has created some challenges in recent years if forecasting via Similarity Scores is what we want to do.  There are fewer tight ends than wide receivers or running backs, and the emergence of guys like Rob Gronkowski and Jimmy Graham has meant that we have multiple tight ends per year that we’re trying to match up with historical seasons…...

In the first part of this series Shawn Siegele articulated why he has a negative view of Randall Cobb going into the 2013 season.  In this installment Frank DuPont/The Fantasy Douche will share his thoughts on Cobb. Shawn and I probably agree on the big broad strokes that are relevant to whether you want to own Cobb in 2013.  But before I get to the…...

Jon Moore’s article from earlier today, which discussed the lack of impact that Pac-12 wide receivers are having in the NFL, has had me thinking about possible explanations.  One reason that may seem obvious to you, but which wasn’t immediately obvious to me is that the Pac-12 suffers from both a time zone and a geography problem. Most of the population of the U.S. lives…...

One of the great things you can do with the Similarity Score apps is that you can create custom adjustments with very little effort.  I primarily use Similarity Scores when I project players for the coming fantasy season.  But one thing I’ve struggled with in the past is how to treat players that will see usage changes.  The custom features on the app make quick…...

Using the ADP Arbitrage app we can look at a receiver and then see what the Average Draft Position of similar receivers is.  This is a way of checking market value.  I figured I would bang out a quick article illustrating how I would use the app in making decisions for my fantasy team…....