Week 4 – While it is 5am on Sunday and gameplay kicks off at 9:30am today (love those London games), I am technically getting this posted before the start. Ok, well, I missed Thursday – fair enough. But we are getting there:
League 1 (PPR):
As I mentioned in my Week 3 post, there are some things that even the best algorithmic usage cannot predict (today); injuries are one of those things that today are sort of hard to determine unless player has a propensity or an existing / underlying issue that one is tracking – Very soon, I believe that the development of the RFID program that each player’s’ uniforms now carry will yield better and better data points that can, in fact, become the Minority Report of the NFL season and predict the next great injury, based on biometric + performance + known medical history with a fair degree of certainty. But we are not there yet (at least, what is being provided to those of us NOT connected to the team’s/NFL <– a girl can dream about this kind of data coming from this type of connection, can’t she?)
You’ll notice I have Jordan Reed in my line up – this is a hard one. He is expected to play but at what level? I picked up Charles Clay as my backup but unfortunately , Reed doesn’t play until Monday; Clay plays at 1pm today. So, I will refresh my model and then see if Reed drops any in the ranking. If nothing else, it will give me a better picture on points earned potential IF he were to play with his existing injury (albeit healed or otherwise).
I swapped out Doug Baldwin who is also questionable this week in terms of his health; and slotted Adam Thielen in. I also picked up Alvin Kamara off of the waiver wire. I have a feeling about him; as does my model. This week, he ranks right next to Terrance West given the matchup and alternates on my bench (oh woe is my RB situation) – Thank goodness for a stout WR lineup, even with injuries et al.
All in all, I am most worried about this matchup. This might be a week for a loss, even if numerically, it looks like a win on NFL.com. I guess I can thank Ty M. for making it a possibility. But O’dell B Jr. might have something else to say about that. Oh that and Melvin Gordon questionable status: if only it were so…Again, I love to dream…
League 2 (Standard): What made me thankful in League 1, has plagued me in League 2 (oh, Ty!) – In this league, I have already pulled out Jordan Reed because E. Engram ranked higher in my weekly ranking anyway. I am also taking a chance on Jarvis Landry this week (it is New Orleans after all. The point differential +/- standard deviation for Standard format sent Landry into the top 10 for the week – fingers crossed xx – #trustthemodel).
Oh yea, this is also the league where I have incurred 1 loss so far – 2 wins / 1 loss. 😦 And that loss was to none other than my man; we are competing in both League 1 and League 2; he beat me by 1.9 points Week 1 – somehow I don’t remember him feeling as bad for me with my loss that week as I did for his loss against me in Week 3…
In fact, I think he did a victory dance perhaps akin to Tom Cruise in ‘Risky Business’ – but maybe that is too much information for a Sports ML blog posting :0):
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League 3 (Standard): After Thursday night, I am doing ok – I predicted 12.5 +/- .75 st dev for Jordan Howard and he earned 12.30. So, pretty spot on. Aaron Rodgers came in at 23.06, which I predicted 23.60 (what, is that my dyslexia at play; no, there was also a + / – 1.5 st dev at work, so again, spot on in terms of accuracy. So, maybe, my 3 wins and 0 losses will become 4 wins after this week. But I am not counting any chickens ever before they are hatched. Just look at what happened to my opponent / my man in Week 3 (154 points for me; 45 points for him in PPR format- that is what we call, just brutal people).
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