Fantasy football is all about numbers. Yards and touchdowns and fantasy points are the main ones, of course, but then everything about football is numbers. Yards per carry, elusiveness, points per… You could spend a month in the numbers and not learn them all.
PFF Senior Fantasy Analyst Scott Barrett does that. He has so many spreadsheets that he destroyed a laptop. And he can put them in context.
That's his Metrics that Matter series. All offseason, he's picked out a key stat or stats and explained the meaning as it applies to fantasy players. It's a strong helper come fantasy draft day and with making in-season and DFS decisions.
Keep up with all the Metrics that Matter here:
May 17: Ryan Tannehill struggles under pressure
May 18: Mariota can't be THIS good in the red zone
May 19: Winston has eyes for his tight ends
May 22: Le'Veon Bell's huge Week 10
May 23: Odell Beckham Jr. underproduced in Week 16
May 24: Antonio Brown lit up the Cowboys
May 25: Doug Baldwin in a surprise shootout
May 26: Johnson's huge opportunity in a 6-6 tie
May 29: What do you do with Roethlisberger?
May 30: How good was Dak Prescott's rookie year really?
May 31: Tavon Austin's historic inefficiency
June 1: Just how good (or not) is Colin Kaepernick?
June 2: Is the real Todd Gurley the 2015 or 2016 version?
June 6: Learning from weight-adjusted 40 times
June 7: All aboard the Carlos Henderson train
June 10: Jay Ajayi's productive 2016
June 13: Andy Dalton struggles under pressure
June 14: Rob Gronkowski's historic dominance
June 17: Brandin Cooks feasts on slower corners
June 20: Torrey Smith's awful draw the last 2 years
June 21: Fleener's disappointing 2016
June 24: Doyle's chances in Indianapolis
June 27: How far apart are Cook and Fournette really?
June 28: Big production without big targets for Elliott
July 1: Josh Norman vs. the NFC East
July 4: Consistency in fantasy scoring, role
July 5: Fantasy options most dependent on gamescript
July 8: Who were 2016's every-down RBs?
July 11: Don't bother double-dipping in DFS
July 12: Is there a ‘backup connection'?
July 15: Finding a reason for Manning's slide
July 18: The CB-sensitive Dez Bryant
July 19: Receivers who win with height, weight
July 22: QBs against man schemes or zone
July 25: Drew Brees' accuracy is off the charts
July 26: Aaron Rodgers' strategic avoidance
July 29: Can Powell hold off Forte?
More to come!
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