Using Python to Understand Why You Always Lose Your Fantasy League

Michael Wayne Smith
6 min readAug 22, 2023
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Credit: https://leaguetycoon.com/10-extreme-fantasy-football/

tldr; This article will help the reader understand basic principles about quantitative thinking and apply those same principles to winning their fantasy football league.

Dr. Nick: hopefully this article will help you get off the billboard.

Python knowledge is needed for parts of this article.

It’s me, Hi, I’m the problem, it’s me.

Most of us humans think that we understand the world simply through the lens of our five senses. This is mostly true. I can drive a car with my five senses, and write this blog post with my five senses. Yea me.

When it comes to predicting sports outcomes, our five senses aren’t as reliable.

When it comes to understanding data analytics, I am offering you the following mental framework — All we are doing in data analytics is testing our intuition about what we are seeing against some type of statistical measure. In doing this, the aspiring fantasy football statistician can begin to see which metrics help us understand the game, and which metrics are just window dressing that confuse Troy Aikman.

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