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Quantifying Fantasy Football Skill: Sleeper vs ESPN, which managers are better at Fantasy Football

Alex Cates

Oct 14
8 min

Quantifying Fantasy Football Skill: Sleeper vs ESPN, which managers are better at Fantasy Football

How do we know if our league is competitive? Those of us that have played in multiple leagues know that some leagues are more competitive...

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A deep dive into Zero-RB: Is it ever the optimal strategy?

Alex Cates

Aug 19
11 min

A deep dive into Zero-RB: Is it ever the optimal strategy?

Zero-RB is a popular Fantasy Football Strategy, but it a winning strategy or a backup plan for your draft? Let's see what the data says...

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Alex Cates

Aug 5
5 min

2022 Snake Draft Strategy Review

A look back at the 2022 season and what strategies worked for fantasy football drafts

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Catan Breakdown: Starting Settlement Numbers Decision

Alex Cates

Dec 3, 2022
7 min

Catan Breakdown: Starting Settlement Numbers Decision

Where to settle? Catan players agonize over that decision. In this post, we use simulations to try to answer that question.

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Is activity always good? Or are we just spinning our wheels?

Alex Cates

Nov 5, 2022
7 min

Is activity always good? Or are we just spinning our wheels?

Those that have played Fantasy Football for a long time will know this feeling. You pay attention to the waiver wire every day. You churn...

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Are you smarter than ESPN? 3 year review

Alex Cates

Oct 8, 2022
6 min

Are you smarter than ESPN? 3 year review

So this post got delayed. I had planned to have this post drop going into week 1 but one thing led to another and here we are. This post...

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Auction Draft Strategy: 3 Year Review of Nomination Strategy

Alex Cates

Aug 27, 2022
5 min

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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Auction Draft Strategy: 3 Year Review of Roster Construction

Alex Cates

Aug 20, 2022
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, 2022
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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Introducing Fantasy League Report: 2022 Edition

Alex Cates

Aug 6, 2022
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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