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I was thinking about what a guy's rankings tell you about his philosophy, and it inspired me to try a rather unique exercise. I approached two people with a relatively similar dynasty outlook, gave them a list of names, and asked them to each provide a set of rankings of those names...

So PFR tweeted out that today is the birthday of Steve Beuerlein, the league's most bizarre, random, out-of-nowhere passing leader, and it got me thinking about other random, wild, completely unforeseeable performances. I mean, prior to 1999, Beuerlein's best season was 3164 yards with 18 scores...

Hey everyone, I was having a discussion on the value of 1st round rookie picks, and I was hoping I could get a bunch of people to help me out with a little experiment. Step 1: Go to this dice roller and roll the 12-sided die until you have four distinct numbers. Step 2: Post what your 4...

These stats are from the last 16 games each receiver played in (regular season and playoffs). Yardage and TDs reflects total offensive yardage and all TDs scored (passing, rushing, receiving, returning, fumble recovery). Why? Because it's my thread, and that's what my leagues give points for...

I was curious how other people value future rookie picks in dynasty. How many future firsts would you trade for a top-5 dynasty player? How many future firsts would you trade for a low-end stud (say, RB12 or WR12)? How many 1sts would you trade for a Hall of Famer in his rookie season? If you...

I'm playing around on PFR this evening and I notice a tab at the top labeled "fun". I click on it and I see a link titled "non-quarterback passers" that promises to provide me with a list of every single non-QB to have thrown a pass since 1960. This makes me think of LaDainian Tomlinson and...

Without getting too much into subscriber content, I just read Tefertiller's "drafting rookies" article and felt that the rookies needed a champion to defend them a little bit. The quote that caught my attention was the following: "So many rookies are drafted with high expectations. The position...

link USC is facing a 2-year postseason ban, a reduction of more than 20 scholarships, and a forfeiture of wins. While the NCAA has no control over the Downtown Athletic Club or the Bowl Championship Series, I'd have to imagine this would probably result in Bush being stripped of his Heisman and...

This is part 2 in a series of posts looking at "conventional wisdom" through the prism of historical results. For those that are unfamiliar with me and my style, I tend to be one of the biggest proponents of going deeper than the counting metrics and prizing things like efficiency. I'm also a...

It's been brought up a couple of times in the past and been kicked around, but I just wanted to bring it up again: it'd be awesome of the Data Dominator/Historical Data Dominator could sort lists by rate stats. For instance, in the Historical Data Dominator, if you set statistic #1 to "fantasy...

NOTE: This original post is from 2010. For more recent numbers circa 2013, jump to Post #30 by Gawain. Thank you, and please carry on. I've been meaning for a while to do a series of posts looking at "conventional wisdom" through the prism of historical results, and with the decade coming to a...

New Orleans' SB appearance got me thinking tonight about some of the league's real tough-luck marks when I suddenly realized that my favorite mark of futility came to a close this season without any fanfare whatsoever. That's right, ladies and gentlemen, the Atlanta Falcons have officially...

This post was inspired by the pass interference penalty that Vincent Jackson drew in the end zone against New York, but before someone accuses me of just being a bitter VJax owner and pointing me to the venting thread... I only own VJax in one league, and I'm currently winning by 90 points while...

Three players who have posted eerily similar numbers recently: Over the last 16 games, QB-A is 363 of 556 (65.3%) for 4415 yards (7.94 ypa) with 26 TDs and 14 INTs (94.7 QB Rating), for a total of 324.8 fantasy points. Over the last 16 games, QB-B is 322 of 507 (63.5%) for 4156 yards (8.20...

I'd read that Kyle Orton's 87-yarder was the longest game-winning TD in the final minute in NFL history. The data dominator only goes back to 2002, but I figured I'd run some queries and see if I could draw up some more fun context for that 87 yard hail mary. Only three times since 2002 has a...

With all of the early game threads coming unpinned and getting lost in the sea of other threads, it'd be nice if we could keep a thread pinned that would track all of the game threads from every week of the season so we wouldn't have to hunt through the shark pool to find them in the future...

I was just playing around in the DD and looked up the offensive line grades. I was shocked when I saw Denver clocking in at 18th. At first, I thought it must be using last year's rankings... but I checked the grades in the magazine, and it was the same. Last year, Denver ranked 3rd in the...

Hypothetical situation: Team A is playing Team B. Team A races out to a huge 28 point lead, marching the ball up and down the field at will against Team B's defense. Suddenly, Team B seems to flip a switch, and scores 21 unanswered to get right back into it. The score currently stands at 28-21...

I was just thinking about this. There are 32 teams, and each of them has a "face of the franchise", which means that one team has a "face of the franchise" that's at best the 32nd best player in the league (and likely outside of the top 50 entirely). When I talk about the "Face of the...

Ignoring injury, what do you believe the chances are that Travis Henry will be the workhorse RB in Denver this year (with workhorse RB being defined as getting 60+% of Denver's carries)? If you don't think that he'll get 60+% of the carries (assuming he's healthy), then why not? Do you think...