Fantasy Outliers
Where data and fantasy football collide.
We found 10 episodes of Fantasy Outliers with the tag “fantasy football”.
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Week 16 - The Fantasy Outliers Super Bowl Showdown
December 22nd, 2017 | Season 1 | 56 mins 46 secs
data, data science, fantasy football, fantasy sports, nfl, predictive analytics
Dave and Dave make it through an entire season of podcasts and meet in the fantasy super bowl. Both teams get a thorough run down, but with Antonio Brown out, the matchup starts to look lopsided. MATHBOX makes us feel better about starting a few of this year's fantasy studs, and gives us a few ideas for desperation plays in the final week including Theo Riddick, Marvin Jones, JuJu Smith-Schuster and even Ben Watson.
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Week 15 - You Gotta Dance (With Who You Came to the Dance With)
December 14th, 2017 | Season 1 | 50 mins 24 secs
data, data science, fantasy football, fantasy sports, nfl, predictive analytics
The fantasy semi-finals brings out the best in the pod. Carson Wentz needs a replacement and the reluctant Blake Bortles fancast continues. Everyone is reminded that "You Gotta Dance With Who You Came to the Dance With". All the top WRs have great match-ups but don't start Robbie Anderson. Dave's sister thinks Eric Decker is extremely good looking. There are almost no good options at Tight End. The other Dave got engaged, favorite hangover food in Chicago, George Clinton is a US president.
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Week 14 - Sit/Start
December 8th, 2017 | Season 1 | 1 hr 10 mins
data, data science, fantasy football, fantasy sports, nfl, predictive analytics
Heading into the first week of the playoffs, Dave and Dave wrap up the regular season by comparing a few team's total points scored, and seeing who was lucky to get into the playoffs. Blake Bortles comes back down to earth in the ranks against Seattle this week. The Offspring is the worst band of the 90s. Mathbox is down on everyone in the Minnesota vs. Carolina matchup except Cam, and what should fantasy owners do about Gronk's suspension?
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Week 13 - The Final Regular Season Sit/Start
November 30th, 2017 | Season 1 | 1 hr 15 mins
data, data science, fantasy football, fantasy sports, nfl, predictive analytics
The last week of the fantasy regular season is here and the crew celebrate by cracking a beer and talking some fake football. Mathbox's predictions look different this week due to some new players emerging and some old favorites taking a nose dive. Dave and Dave talk about which predictions we buy as we try to help you ride the hot hand into the playoffs.
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Week 12 - Emergency Podcast!
November 22nd, 2017 | Season 1 | 49 mins 46 secs
data, data science, fantasy football, fantasy sports, nfl, predictive analytics
Emergency! Emergency! Emergency! Dave and Dave jump the gun on Thanksgiving week to bring you this emergency podcast. The games weren't even over, expert ranks weren't out, but Mathbox has week 12 predictions for you. A few interesting fantasy situations get explored like McKinnon and Murray, some guys with juisty matchups get called out, and desperation at tight end and on the waiver wire.
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Week 11 - Sit/Start
November 16th, 2017 | Season 1 | 1 hr 1 min
data, data science, fantasy football, fantasy sports, nfl, predictive analytics
Dave and Dave head into the home stretch for the fantasy regular season with MATHBOX's week 11 sit/start predictions. All positions get compared to expert ranks, Tyrod Taylor gets picked on, his backup's name is mispronounced, and fantasy outlier's new favorite word: Pamplemouse
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Week 11 Waiver Wire Pickups / Ignores and MathBox Week 10 Advice
November 14th, 2017 | Season 1 | 30 mins 49 secs
dfs, fantasy football, football, machine learning, nfl
Cousin Clay discusses the top waiver wire pickups of the week and who he thinks is or isn't worth the add. Chris reviews his Week 10 MathBox-inspired fantasy start/sit suggestions on Twitter.
We reference the Week 11 Waiver Wire article here: https://medium.com/@clayjseal/c87fad2eb92b
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Week 10 - Start/Sit and Next 4 Week Projections - MathBox-derived, Human-interpreted
November 9th, 2017 | Season 1 | 1 hr 14 mins
data science, fantasy football, football, machine learning, nfl, sports
Beard Dave and Bro Chris talk start-sit options with next 4 week projections as something to keep in mind. Chris reveal insights into how MathBox is making these decisions, why Centaurs will be the source of better decision-making in the future, and Beard Dave's love for D&D.
Learn our takes on: Lamar Miller, Ameer Abudullah, Bilal Powell, Matt Forte, CJ Anderson, Adrian Peterson, Frank Gore & Marlon Mack, Matt Stafford, Kirk Cousins, Jared Goff, Josh McCown, Ben Roethlisberger, Charles Clay, Evan Engram, Vernon Davis (aka Vernon Reed) and more!
Read the cliffs notes here: https://medium.com/fantasy-outliers/mathbox-week-10-projections-ea1c563805e2
Access the raw projection spreadsheet for PPR, Non-PPR, and Half-PPR here: projections.fantasyoutliers.com -
Week 9 - MATHBOX's Sit/Start
November 2nd, 2017 | Season 1 | 54 mins 19 secs
data, data science, fantasy football, fantasy sports, nfl, predictive analytics
Week 9 MATHBOX predictions are revealed as we run through sit/start. We rank the most irritating ways to lose in fantasy, bye week desperation ensues and Beard Dave pulls an amazing 80's reference.
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Week 8 - Sit/Start + Spookiest Pod of the Year
October 26th, 2017 | Season 1 | 1 hr 14 mins
data, data science, fantasy football, fantasy sports, nfl, predictive analytics
The crew switch it up this week and bring you week 8 sit/start thoughts based on MATHBOX's new weekly predictions. Every position gets a look including the best predicted QBs for the next 4 weeks. A failed attempt at a fantasy football "Trick or Treat" game leads to the first bleep ever.