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Fantasy Football for Smart People: How Fantasy Football Pros Game Plan to Win Kindle Edition

by Jonathan Bales (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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“Fantasy Football for Smart People: How Fantasy Football Pros Game Plan to Win” is a comprehensive look into the methods, numbers, and information utilized by the top fantasy football players in the world. Based upon a scientific approach to fantasy football, the book will take you through how fantasy football’s pros—those truly profiting big bucks from the game—take home fantasy championships year in and year out.

Starting with preseason research and moving to complex draft techniques and finally in-season strategies, “Fantasy Football for Smart People: How Fantasy Football Pros Game Plan to Win” is built around the belief that everything you think you know about fantasy football should be questioned and tested. You’ll learn which stats are most important to fantasy owners, how to understand and embrace the randomness inherent to the game, why some draft strategies are better than others, and most important, how to make the most accurate predictions possible so you can finally transform into the dominant fantasy owner you were meant to be.
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    May 31, 2014
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On the Fantasy Football for Smart People book series:
"A must from one of the leading minds in fantasy sports"
- Josh Moore, President of 4for4.com
"I love the Fantasy Football for Smart People series. I've been trying to convince myself to write books like this for years."

- Mike Clay, Head of Fantasy at Pro Football Focus
"An amazingly detailed and intricately thought-out plan for how to win over the long run in fantasy football"

- C.D. Carter, Author of "How to Think Like a Fantasy Football Winner"
"Bales has been able to take what Doyle Brunson and Dan Harrington did for poker and apply it to fantasy football."

- Michael Rathburn, RotoWire

From the Author

Table of Contents

Section I: Pre-Draft
Why Most Fantasy Football Predictions Go Wrong
The Difference Between QB and RB Aging
A Look at the Importance of RB Size
A Hidden Downside of Size for RBs
The Advanced Stats I Use to Win Leagues
Why Rookie QBs are Undervalued
One Trick to Identify Undervalued Rookie RBs
Breaking Down WR Performance By Conference
The Quickest, Easiest, Most Accurate Way to Create a Big Board
This Small-Bodied WR Type Might Be Undervalued

Section II: In-Draft
The Best Draft Slot in Fantasy Football
Why a "Best Player Available" Draft Strategy Fails
The Most Important Fantasy Football Analysis You'll Read All Year (For Real)
Why and How You Should Trade Out of Rounds 3 & 4
A Barbell Approach to Drafting
How to Handle the Flex Position
Can We Use Strength of Schedule?

Section III: In-Season
Why Randomness Is Your Best Friend
How QBs Perform Without Their Top WR
How to Use Vegas to Better Your Fantasy Team
Using Vegas Totals to Project Rushing Stats
Game Flow and Fantasy Points
How to Pull Off the Perfect Trade
More Evidence that Non-Pass-Catching Backs Suck
How Much Do Top Defenses Limit Passing Success?
One Trait That Can Predict QB Play in Cold Weather

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00KPCDFNM
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 31, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3987 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 229 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 27 ratings

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Jonathan Bales

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Jonathan Bales is the author of the Fantasy Sports for Smart People series, co-founder of FantasyLabs - a daily fantasy sports analytics platform - and founder of RotoAcademy.

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Justin lanham
5.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly more informative thank you
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2020
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I enjoyed this book more than I thought. Contrarian thinking took to the next level, that most fantasy players don’t think about. Which obviously gives you the edge when applying the strategy and/or info given. I bet professionally on sports for a magority of my income. So the Vegas section really clicked with me. I can’t wait to apply the techniques given using Vegas for the weekly fantasy teams. Will be looking at roto academy and your other works because I am so surprised at how I was and am impressed with this book.
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Christopher Carter
3.0 out of 5 stars Maybe others will find it useful but I did not
Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2015
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I bought this book to get some advice on in season moves. The reason that I give it 3 stars is that I walked away no more prepared for in season management than I was when I sat down to read it. Bales writes in semi stream of conscience and is relate-able to be sure but covering just two topics for in season planning just wasn't that helpful. Overall I found this to be lacking coherency and is more of an interest read rather than an informative one. Maybe others will find it useful but I did not.
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Biswas
5.0 out of 5 stars Jonathan Bales has done it again!!!!
Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2014
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This is one of the best books on fantasy football that I have ever read. The "fantasy football for smart people" series is a must read if you want to win your league. Mr. Bales brings different analogies to fantasy football and uses a little economic theory as well as the "barbell" methodology on risk. A definite must read. I have won a few championships of late thanks to Jonathan Bales!!
Sanjay Biswas, Esq.
New Orleans, LA
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Michael Campisi
1.0 out of 5 stars Smart people won't waste their money...
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2014
A more useless collection of nonsense has never been written, if you think studying height, weight, combine speeds and 20 other ridiculous statistics are going to help your fantasy teams, than by all means, pad this clowns bank account and buy this book, just please , do me a favor, make sure you join my money league.
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Drew Rumbley
4.0 out of 5 stars A good read if you play or are considering playing fantasy ...
Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2017
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A good read if you play or are considering playing fantasy football. I do play by the way with some guys that really know the NFL and won my league championship last season. An interesting section about how to make sense of randomness was worth the time to me plus other things were too.
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Glenn G davis
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2014
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good deal
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Prince Anyanwu
5.0 out of 5 stars Smart, Analytic, Approach to Fantasy Football
Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2014
Do you like fantasy football? Do you want to win every year? Do you want an edge over your opponents in your league(s)? Do you think there is a smarter, analytically approach to fantasy football? Then this is the book for you.

The one, big thing I like about Jonathan Bales is that he backs everything with hard data and stats. He brings an analytic approach to fantasy unlike most fantasy football magazines you read.

Nate Silver in the ESPN The Magazine's March 3 Analytics Issue said: "From studies on pitch framing to attempts to measure clubhouse chemistry, topics once thought to be beyond the realm of analytics -- the Dark Matter referred to throughout this issue -- now seem within reach." Jonathan Bales brings it within reach.

This book helps you exploit all the inefficiencies in the fantasy football world most of your league mates are still employing. Like thinking a receiver's speed is more important than their height / weight. Or which stats actually correlate at a high % for success.

Let me throw another Nate Silver quote to end this: "But for the NFL, which has failed for more than 20 years to adopt some of the most basic tenets of analytics, Dark Matter is the equivalent of an iPad to a man who still uses a typewriter." Do you want to still be using a typewriter? I don't think so. Your whole mindset about fantasy and football will change reading Fantasy Football for Smart People: How Fantasy Football Pros Game Plan to Win.
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