FANALYTICS: One Month—Bringing it home, part 1

We just stocked up our September one-month leagues, fielding 317 teams. That's not a bad turnout after July's 444-team trial given that the deadline was during fantasy football draft weekend. There are big rollout plans for 2014.

Still, I continue to get pushback from long-time traditional fantasy leaguers who claim that one month is far too short a time period to have any relevance. Certainly, a full season competition is more telling of our proficiency at skills evaluation; it's also more of a testament to commitment. But I have been parading around a piece of research that does provide some validation to the one-month concept:

Of the teams that will eventually go on to win their full-season league, 80% of them will finished the...

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