Recent content by mingusrude

No. Even in the balanced projected roster above, in which $200 is spread evenly over all spots (starter and bench), it still spits out Peterson, Johnson, Gronk. The total amount spent on the starters is $164 out of $200, with the rest on the bench. That's $18 average per starter, $4 average per...

So what running this analysis did for me is convince me that even if I want a "balanced" roster, I should go top heavy and go after the studs. You're not going to benefit much from having three number-two WRs, for example. The value is not in the middle area, but at the top. In the past, I've...

My league has been doing an auction draft for a few years, and being a little bit of a nerd, I realized that figuring out who to draft/buy is really an applied "Knapsack problem", which is a combinatorial optimization problem. Wikipedia has a pretty good entry on these types of problems...