Andrew Crollard

Andrew has worked as both an economist/data analyst and as a university and youth soccer coach. Naturally, marrying soccer and data together is a perfect fit.

Stats Summary – Week 15: The Value of Set Pieces

If you’re reading the advice we give here on MLSFantasyBoss, you probably already know that it is good to pick players who take set pieces and PKs. The question is just how much does it account for? The below table looks at PP90 for specific positional roles. The equations I use are now able to pull out midfield set-piece takers …

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Stats Summary – Week 12: When to Take a Hit

There are eight teams with a bye this week. It’s here. The dreaded mass-bye week where we’ll be chopping off our limbs with a minus 4 hit to stop the greyscale. I’ve already had a couple people asking if it makes sense to take a hit this week. So, I’m just going to look at all kinds of situations and …

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Stats Summary – Week 11: Player Form

We’re deep enough into the season to where the results of the first couple weeks are getting close to any relevancy in helping us pick any players in a hot run of form. The following table shows us player form from week 5 onward. Giovinco still comes in first despite his double gameweek dud. Drogba and Dos Santos (GDS) come …

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Stats Summary – Week 10: Player Consistency

I’ve had several discussions with fantasy MLS managers that touch on the idea of consistency. There’s a lot of different ways that a player can be consistent – consistent starter, consistently getting 90 minutes, consistency in role/position, consistency in score, etc. This table contains every player who has played 45+ minutes at least 5 times this season. It then breaks …

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Stats Summary – Week 9: Points Conceded by Team by Position

This week we’ll examine how many average points per game each team concedes by position. There’s a lot of valuable information that we can glean by looking at points conceded – which teams to avoid playing against and which teams we want to target playing against for each position. You should be able to sort the table below to make …

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Stats Summary – Week 8: True DGW Value

The dreaded double game week rotation struck again in week 8. We all know that we can’t always count a DGW player by simply doubling their expected output because there’s a good chance they’ll get rested. About 30% of starters are rotated in a DGW. During a regular game week, it is about 12.5% of players who get rotated. So …

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Stats Summary – Week 7: PP90/$

Every now and then real life comes up and demands our attention, and that’s exactly what happened to Andrew this week. Don’t worry, it’s nothing bad.  He’s getting the chance to indulge his passion for soccer and I think we can all agree that we think that’s awesome! Fortunately for us, he was still able to assemble some statistical tidbits …

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Stats Summary – Week 6: Expected Goals and NYRB

I still believe in New York Red Bull’s ability to get it done for us in fantasy. A lot of people have jumped ship and set it on fire so they aren’t tempted to try to get back aboard. I understand it and it makes sense to drop them for DGW players through this stretch. But NYRB could break out …

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Game Week 6 Punts

Welcome to the GW6 edition of Player Punts! I hope all of you had a better fantasy week than I did. And now to hurry up and forget about it, there are some great value players that are not only undervalued, but extremely low ownership percentage. This week’s punt picks are going to be full of DGW players because if …

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Stats Summary – Week 5: All About That Pace

Pace of play is a huge area of focus for me as a coach. It is an area that can define teams on both sides of the ball. We know that LA tend to have longer build-ups than, say, Vancouver. We know that both New York teams are trying to win the ball back as quickly as possible. But how …

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