We are BACK with week four optimized lineups!
With fantasy football, projections are everywhere. There are countless experts and experts trying to hawk picks for money, internet fame, or both. However, most sites don’t evaluate their projections on a regular basis, or keep historical projections up for prospective customers to evaluate. Thats where I come in.
Are you ready for some footbaaaalll?! Its that time of the year, the NFL is back! Like many others, part of my enjoyment of football season is through fantasy football, specifically daily fantasy (like DraftKings or Fanduel is you re unfamiliar). Obviously, I want to apply my analytic skillset to give me an edge, and there’s lot of great packages in R that make that easier to do.
Yesterday, I saw this video from Rachel Nichols’ The Jump showing some instances where Lonzo Ball was credited with assists that he shouldn’t have been. Given the Lakers investment in Lonzo, are we to conclude that they are fudging up his assist numbers in order to increase Ball’s hype? Or are these just a few egregious mistakes? A look at the data will help us find out.
To test this, I pulled game logs from the Stattleship API and compared Lonzo Ball’s assists at home games vs away games.
