WR Draft Capital Analytics with Rookie Rankings
Author: Bill Jones Introduction Hey fantasy football analytics fam, welcome back to my blog! With the NFL draft finished, many of us are eagerly anticipating the influx of new talent that will soon hit the league. For those of us that play dynasty fantasy football, it’s important to start thinking about how we can evaluate these rookies, if you haven’t already, and formulate an opinion about their potential impact on your fantasy teams. Over the past few weeks, I have thoroughly enjoyed reading many of my colleagues’ models and ranking systems that have been published leading up to the draft. In doing this research I had one recurring frustration in most analysts ranking processes. This frustration was that almost all of them (which were transparent about their process) included projected draft capital as a data point for their prediction. To me the inclusion of this data point felt a bit odd as the NFL draft capital is essentially already a ranking that bakes in all the other dat...