Alex Cates
Auction Draft Strategy: 3 Year Review of Nomination Strategy
This will be part 3 of my 3-year review series. Each Saturday between now and the NFL season I will be releasing a new section. Week 1:...
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Alex Cates
- Aug 20
- 5 min
Auction Draft Strategy: 3 Year Review of Roster Construction
Here we analyzed 1100 auction drafts over the last 3 years to examine what strategies worked and which didn't
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Alex Cates
- Aug 13
- 6 min
Snake Draft Strategy: 3 Year Review
In this post, I look at the past 3 years to see how different draft strategies fared across ~1500 competitive leagues.
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Alex Cates
- Aug 6
- 6 min
Introducing Fantasy League Report: 2022 Edition
I want to take this week to introduce a fantasy football service I have been building. This will kick off a series of posts centered...
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Alex Cates
- Apr 2
- 5 min
Catan Breakdown: Longest Road and Largest Army
Longest Road and Largest army represent 2 major bonuses in Settlers of Catan. But how valuable are they? Lets find out.
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Alex Cates
- Mar 5
- 6 min
2021 Draft Strategy Recap: Snake Drafts
With the fantasy season over, I am looking back at what snake draft strategies worked, and which did not for the 2021 Fantasy Football...
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Alex Cates
- Feb 5
- 6 min
Board Game Breakdown: Catan Part 3: Build Timing
Today, we dive into building in Catan, specifically the impact of build timing on your overall win percentage.
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Alex Cates
- Jan 22
- 5 min
Championship Players 2021: What players won your league?
With the Fantasy Season over, I look back at how drafting or rostering different players affected your odds of winning a championship.
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Alex Cates
- Jan 1
- 8 min
Board Game Breakdown: Catan, Resource Value
In today's post, we examine how the value of different resources changes both within and between games of Catan.
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Alex Cates
- Dec 4, 2021
- 6 min
Board Game Breakdown: Settlers of Catan, the basics
Hello and welcome to a new series I am working on that I am calling Board Game Breakdown. The idea is simple, try to use data science to...
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