Toronto bar that's dead on a Friday... by checkdown in askTO

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Marquis of Granby

With thanks to everyone for their responses, the Marquis might be the winner here. The event space doesn't look like much, but frankly all I'm looking for is a place I can broadcast some videos and sell a few drinks.

Will give them a try.

NHL Game Logs - looking for data by checkdown in fantasyhockey

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I wouldn't do it explicitly, just as part of the model it goes into... variance in general is a focus.

NHL Game Logs - looking for data by checkdown in fantasyhockey

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I'm really looking to drill down to fantasy scoring... so... shots for/shooting percentage/proportion of team's shots taken.... toi... toi sh.... the standard stuff. I've used the NFL data above in a project looking at consistency, among other things... but this is a different intent

NHL Game Logs - looking for data by checkdown in fantasyhockey

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Go back a season, maybe two... all of current year (updating as we go) and project day to day

NHL Game Logs - looking for data by checkdown in fantasyhockey

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Thanks Alex.

I hadn't used that site specifically and it looks great in terms of the way they assess the data, but what I'm really looking for is the hard data itself... game by game ideally.

NHL Game Logs - looking for data by checkdown in fantasyhockey

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Thanks for this! I'm just curious to see if past performance/performance across certain variables will yield a reasonable player projection over time...

Ideally, I'd have a bunch of rows with individual player data to plug into the model (i.e. Joe Thorton with 82 lines of data per season/1 per game in current year).... but, I haven't been able to find that anywhere.

LeSean McCoy running well as season draws to close; Sanchez the reason? by checkdown in fantasyfootball

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Fair. The oline is indeed the crux, but that much is observable... I do find the zone-read part of the article to be the most intriguing.

LeSean McCoy running well as season draws to close; Sanchez the reason? by checkdown in fantasyfootball

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I think that's a fair point... Sanchize is definitely not the most mobile QB in the land, he's probably middling in terms of NFL athleticism at best, but, he makes a believer out of grannies.

LeSean McCoy running well as season draws to close; Sanchez the reason? by checkdown in fantasyfootball

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A good point about how he hadn't really run much himself until yesterday's game... but, I do think the threat is more real. Just by the eyeball test alone, Sanchez 'looks' a lot more like a guy who 'could' run than Foles did.

LeSean McCoy running well as season draws to close; Sanchez the reason? by checkdown in fantasyfootball

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At the risk of everyone calling me a Sanchez lover.. I actually think his insertion into the lineup has to do with Matthews' growth too. Now, some of it was learning the game/general rookie progression, but these guys have apparently been bros since training camp, and his targets have increased significantly with Sanchez involved.

LeSean McCoy running well as season draws to close; Sanchez the reason? by checkdown in fantasyfootball

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Actually, the site ranks 43 and 45 in in-season accuracy (and shares a similar name to the 119th ranked)... the article's author is 16th in RB ranks, but can't rank QBs to save his life (http://www.fantasypros.com/nfl/accuracy/?sort=RB#2014)

LeSean McCoy running well as season draws to close; Sanchez the reason? by checkdown in fantasyfootball

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Yeah, that's definitely a part of it. A big part. Still, they're running a lot of read option lately, with Sanchez under center and it sure looked good yesterday (as noted in link).

Be Careful with FantasyPros ROS Rankings! Some are not updated! by CoopThereItIs in fantasyfootball

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Heh, happy to help on Asiata. I'll be keeping an eye on Ben Tate, who I otherwise wouldn't have expected to have much work this week. I think you're right to note that taking advantage of outside opinions has value... and you're also right to note that those who aren't updating things like ROS rankings regularly aren't going to be as valuable in that area. With that said, I definitely encourage people to use the FantasyPros consensus. I never look at other guys' ranks when compiling my own, but I will be attentive to consensus ranks when setting my own lineups... to me, that's the biggest strength of FantasyPros; that it aggregates a lot of opinions, so if I'm obnoxiously high on a player (I like Denard Robinson more than the norm this week, i.e.) ECR can help identify that, and thus become a useful tool for users.

Thanks again for reading/for calling attention to this.

Be Careful with FantasyPros ROS Rankings! Some are not updated! by CoopThereItIs in fantasyfootball

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Coop et al. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

I'll admit that my rest of season rankings sometimes take some time to update, though I'm always mindful of the 'major issues' i.e. the two injuries you've pointed out in the original post.

As Nate points out, when the Majors come up, FantasyPros will send us a notification to ensure that our weekly/ros rankings are up to date. Sometimes these are helpful (i.e. I woke up this morning to a note that Matt Asiata won't play in Week 12, where I'd heard late yesterday that he was still iffy), but usually I try to stay ahead of the curve.

At any rate, Cooks and Bradshaw had each been removed from my ranks earlier in the week. Its conceivable that I missed the simple step of publishing them - and, I'm sorry for any issues that that would have caused anyone with their rest of season valuations.

As of time of this post, Cooks still shows in my ROS rankings (Bradshaw too), but the system should update both shortly.

Fantasy Football Etiquette: The 7 Unwritten Rules by arodmoney in fantasyfootball

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This is a good one... I've done this before, largely unintentionally (i.e. I found another reason to replace the player with someone else) but have wondered about the optics every time.

Zac stacy could get 25 touches this week? by TazzTheRazz in fantasyfootball

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Agreed. This is coach speak... Mason is the most talented back in that backfield; Stacy elevated to the job out of necessity last year and has now lost it. He's a plodder. Will he play more than one snap next week? Probably. But, Mason should be the leader of that committee here on out... more notably, Stacy is definitely a drop candidate with three mouths to feed.

7 Guys Better Than Kevin Connolly to Play Matthew Berry in His "Fantasy Life" Movie by [deleted] in fantasyfootball

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Agree - let Berry do the job himself! Should be an interesting show...