Fantasy Stats

Here are the Form Difficulty Charts for Round 6 of the 2016 MLS Fantasy season and form breakdown for Home and Away games from 2015 plus the first games of 2016. If you’re not familiar with these charts, I’ll explain below. One early warning, since these charts are based on team form, the accuracy may be off some until more games have been …

Diego Valeri. End of article. Seriously though, what patterns are the data starting to reveal about which teams score bonus points? What, if any, hypothesis can we come up with about how likely a team is to score a lot of bonus points based on their style of play? Team Total Bonus Offensive Bonus Defensive Bonus POR 21.25 10.75 10.5 …

Here are the Form Difficulty Charts for Round 5 of the 2016 MLS Fantasy season and form breakdown for Home and Away games from 2015 plus the first games of 2016. If you’re not familiar with these charts, I’ll explain below. One early warning, since these charts are based on team form, the accuracy may be off some until more games have been …

I think most of us have a good idea which individual players top the charts in bonus point production. It comes as no surprise to see guys like Valeri, Ciman, and Bradley raking in bonus points left and right. But who concedes bonus points more than the rest? NYCFC tops the charts, conceding 61 bonus points through the first 3 …

Here are the Form Difficulty Charts for Round 4 of the 2016 MLS Fantasy season and form breakdown for Home and Away games from 2015 plus the first games of 2016. If you’re not familiar with these charts, I’ll explain below. One early warning, since these charts are based on team form, the accuracy may be off some until more games have been …

The following predictions are based on the ELO ranking system. This system was first used in Chess to calculate the skill level of players and predict the most likely winner. Since soccer can end in a draw, I’m using a modified version of this formula that tries to predict the chance that a team will come away from a match …

That time of the season is here again – when some players jump out to unsustainable scores and a lot of managers jump and bring them in. We’ll be looking at the midfield movers today as they are the position I’m getting the most questions about. These 9 players in the chart below have the highest scores for midfielders and …

Here are the Form Difficulty Charts for Round 3 of the 2016 MLS Fantasy season and form breakdown for Home and Away games from 2015 plus the first games of 2016. If you’re not familiar with these charts, I’ll explain below. One early warning, since these charts are based on team form, the accuracy may be off some until more games have been …

The following predictions are based on the ELO ranking system. This system was first used in Chess to calculate the skill level of players and predict the most likely winner. Since soccer can end in a draw, I’m using a modified version of this formula that tries to predict the chance that a team will come away from a match …

Week 1 is in the books. A lot of people are already kneejerking: Should I drop Villa? Is Steres a long-term starter?  The answer is no to both. Breathe, one week is not enough sample size to already declare a player a boom or a bust for anything more than that week. Don’t rush out and make your transfers. Sleep …