During this past week, I looked at every single player on my team and determined who had the better matchup. I looked to see which player had the best chance of having the most successful game. To see who had the best chance, I looked at a number of things. I looked at who they were playing, who would specifically guard them, and the amount of points that they were projected to earn. By doing this, I concluded who would be the best for each position for this week and who would be able to put up the most points for this week.
This week, I excelled on almost all of the picks I made. I picked four people that had twelve points or higher. Those players consisted of Jordan Howard, Deandre Hopkins, A.J. Green, the Texans’ defense. Although they all had over twelve points, the most successful was Deandre Hopkins. He caught a total of ten balls for 107 yards and one touchdown, which totaled up to be 16.7 fantasy points. My worst pick of the week, however, was Emmanuel Sanders. He was only able to total four catches for twenty-seven yards. At the beginning of the week, I felt that he would have a great game because he was going against a secondary that had given up tons of yards and touchdowns the previous week. Although I was not able to prevail on this pick, I was still able to defeat my opponent this week. For next week, I will again evaluate every matchup of my players for their upcoming games. One matchup for next week that I think will prevail is Desean Jackson versus the New England Patriots. I think that Desean Jackson could have a breakout game because over the first couple of weeks the Patriots’ defense has had many miscommunications and allowed long touchdowns. One matchup I feel could end up falling out is Deandre Hopkins versus the Kansas City Chiefs. I feel that this could end up being a bad matchup because of the very talented cornerback, Marcus Peters, when will be primarily guarding him. Marcus Peters is very well known for locking down most of the wide receivers he guards one on one.
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Over the course of this past week, I researched many specific strategies that sports analysts use to make them successful. I found that collecting data of what players did against certain teams in previous years can help to create a hypothesis on how that player will do versus those teams and one on one matchups for upcoming games. I also learned that in order to be able to evaluate players and teams effectively you have to have a good understanding of the game of football. By taking more important aspects of a season or game, I learned that it gives you a better chance of predicting the outcome. Compiling one player's strengths and weaknesses and comparing them to another player's strengths and weaknesses can help you to predict the better matchup for that week.
In using these strategies, I was able to select the right players to win my matchup this week. By analyzing this week's matchups, I was able to successfully select most of the right players. For example, I chose A.J. Green because of the lack of depth and star players in the Packers' secondary. Although I was able to win versus my opponent this week, there were some matchups that I did not correctly pick. For example, I did not use Jordan Howard because I did not think he would be effective because of an injury he was playing through. Even though I did not make a correct hypothesis on two of my teams nine matchups, I was still able to successfully get nine right and defeat my opponent. Looking ahead to next week's matchups, I have a variety of decisions to make regarding my team. One of these decisions is if I would rather start Kirk Cousins versus Kansas City's feared secondary or Ben Roethlisberger versus the Ravens feared pass rush. I may end up picking Kirk Cousins because Ben Roethlisberger has a history of not playing well versus the rival Ravens. Another decision that I will have to make is if I would rather start the Jaguars defense or the Texans defense. I would probably lean toward the Jaguars defense because the have a much easier task in defending the Jets offense rather than the Texans defense against the Titans offense. Next week I will discuss my choices and how the matchups turned out. For my genius hour project, I am going to analyze my fantasy football team's performance for twelve weeks in the same way that an NFL sports analyst would. I will research the career of a NFL sports anaylist and see what makes them successful and what makes them unsuccessful. I will then take this data I have gathered from research and use it to the best of my ability to analyze strategies and formations to achieve the best win to loss ratio. I will use the information I have put together from players, matchups and coaching staffs to achieve the greatest results. My goal is to use all the information and analysis of these players to win ten games or
more. First I will start by researching how analysts collect this information and put it to use. By figuring out how analysts do their jobs successfully and with little failure, I will be able to use this in my pursuit to becoming an NFL sports analyst. I will then use these techniques I have learned and put them to the test by trying to win ten games in fantasy football. I will then use everything I have learned to be compile information and use it at a high level to make my fantasy football team successful. By compiling this information and using the techniques that I researched, I will perfect my ability from week to week in analyzing football games and players. Within each week, I will analyze each team's strengths and weaknesses, as well as deal with team match ups & individual player's injuries. By understanding each team's strengths and weaknesses I will be able to estimate how well certain players will do against those teams. Depending on length and severity of injuries that players have sustained I can determine when that player will be available and how that injury can cost that team in an upcoming game. Evaluating team match ups can help me better understand how specific players will play versus one another and which one will more likely prevail. I am looking forward to analyzing the upcoming weeks of football and perfecting the way I evaluate and rate team' s success. |
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