It's the middle of August, a time at which many fantasy football owners start to produce their rankings and cheat sheets. Some resort to intuition, while some take an expert's rankings and tweak them. Others use hours and hours of research to create their rankings.
I'll use projections.
My FEIN projections (short for Forecasted Evaluative Impartial Numerical projections) aren't based on intuition or an expert's rankings or even hours of research. Mine are based on complex algorithms with no human interaction--I input a player's stats, and out spits their forecast.
The Method
Some of you may be wondering how I control for players switching teams, or wide receivers--for example--losing their top passer, such as Jay Cutler and Brandon Marshall.
I don't; I only adjust for players who switch conferences. While I could account for this by using air yards, I could only find yards after catch for quarterbacks for the current year, and there was no data for an...
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