FANALYTICS: In-season XRD: One month later
Aug 16 2012
A month ago, I wrote about how we might be able to use Bill James' Plexiglass Principle in conjunction with an in-season Xtreme Regression Drafting (XRD) strategy. That is one of the tactical approaches that can be used in a monthly fantasy game. And that's exactly what I did for the 4-week draft I participated in that ended this past week.
So let's see how I did.
If you recall, to prepare for this draft, I compared each player's performance to date against how he had performed over the previous 31 days. I identified two groups of players who I thought could regress up or down in July:
Historically solid players who had a bad June. I tried to focus on those whose season-to-date line looked mediocre; this might depress their value...
Almost!
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