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Modeling Fantasy Football Quarterbacks, Kyle Zeberlein, Myles Wallin May 2016

Modeling Fantasy Football Quarterbacks, Kyle Zeberlein, Myles Wallin

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Fantasy football is a way to score NFL players based off of their statistics in particular categories. We have created formulas for modeling every quarterback’s fantasy football points per game in the 2015-2016 season. Our model is partitioned into four sub-models depending on the length of the quarterback’s career in the NFL. We have developed a weighted model based on previous years’ performance of the quarterback, of the defense, and of the quarterback against the defense using data from the NFL. We compare our projections for the season against Yahoo’s projections for the season.