Create Fantasy Football Draft Lists - League to Player Stats Method
If you need fantasy football draft lists I'd like to show you how easy it is to create fantasy football lists of your own. This site details five methods of building fantasy draft lists: league to team to player stats method, player history method, gut feel method, average fantasy football points method, and tweak expert rankings method. This article explains in six steps how to create fantasy football draft lists based on NFL statistics from the last three seasons.
1) Find a source of NFL statistics for the previous three seasons. You can download fantasy NFL statistics from prior seasons into a spreadsheet through CBS Sportsline's fantasy football leagues. Yahoo Fantasy Football also provides NFL player statistics from the last two years but there is no option to save or download the data which means you have to copy, paste, and modify the data to get it into a usable spreadsheet format.
1) Find a source of NFL statistics for the previous three seasons. You can download fantasy NFL statistics from prior seasons into a spreadsheet through CBS Sportsline's fantasy football leagues. Yahoo Fantasy Football also provides NFL player statistics from the last two years but there is no option to save or download the data which means you have to copy, paste, and modify the data to get it into a usable spreadsheet format.
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2) Calculate average NFL league statistics over the last three seasons(don't break down the stats by team yet). Consider every NFL statistic that pertains to your fantasy league's scoring system and therefore the fantasy football lists you are creating. The NFL league averages will be used only as a guide.
3) Calculate average NFL team statistics over the last three seasons(don't break down the stats by player yet). Consider every NFL statistic that pertains to your fantasy league's scoring system and therefore the fantasy football draft lists you are creating. Use a formula similar to the following to weight the NFL team statistics from the most recent season to the oldest season being used:
(0.6 x one year ago stats) + (0.3 x two years ago stats) + (0.1 x three years ago stats) = Weighted average NFL statistics for a given team
4) Adjust NFL team statistics up or down based on gut feel and your own fantasy football knowledge. Keep the NFL league-wide historical statistics is mind when making these adjustments. For example don't bump up rushing touchdowns for 12 teams in the league without bumping down rushing touchdowns for some other teams. When you're down with this step in the fantasy football draft list creation process, your average projected NFL team statistics need to line up relatively close with the NFL league-wide historical statistics.
5) Break down the NFL team statistics into individual player stats. For example if you have a team passing for 30 touchdowns, you need to allocate those 30 touchdowns to the team's individual WRs, TEs, and RBs who will be on the receiving end of the passes.
6) Verify the individual player totals add up to the NFL team totals which in turn need to be in line with the historical NFL league averages. You now have your baseline fantasy football draft lists. See the fantasy football draft cheat sheet article listed below for links to other articles on how to tweak your fantasy draft lists.
The league to team to player stats method of creating fantasy football draft lists is solid if you have the time available and would enjoy doing the proper calculations and detailed analysis required.
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2) Calculate average NFL league statistics over the last three seasons(don't break down the stats by team yet). Consider every NFL statistic that pertains to your fantasy league's scoring system and therefore the fantasy football lists you are creating. The NFL league averages will be used only as a guide.
3) Calculate average NFL team statistics over the last three seasons(don't break down the stats by player yet). Consider every NFL statistic that pertains to your fantasy league's scoring system and therefore the fantasy football draft lists you are creating. Use a formula similar to the following to weight the NFL team statistics from the most recent season to the oldest season being used:
(0.6 x one year ago stats) + (0.3 x two years ago stats) + (0.1 x three years ago stats) = Weighted average NFL statistics for a given team
4) Adjust NFL team statistics up or down based on gut feel and your own fantasy football knowledge. Keep the NFL league-wide historical statistics is mind when making these adjustments. For example don't bump up rushing touchdowns for 12 teams in the league without bumping down rushing touchdowns for some other teams. When you're down with this step in the fantasy football draft list creation process, your average projected NFL team statistics need to line up relatively close with the NFL league-wide historical statistics.
5) Break down the NFL team statistics into individual player stats. For example if you have a team passing for 30 touchdowns, you need to allocate those 30 touchdowns to the team's individual WRs, TEs, and RBs who will be on the receiving end of the passes.
6) Verify the individual player totals add up to the NFL team totals which in turn need to be in line with the historical NFL league averages. You now have your baseline fantasy football draft lists. See the fantasy football draft cheat sheet article listed below for links to other articles on how to tweak your fantasy draft lists.
The league to team to player stats method of creating fantasy football draft lists is solid if you have the time available and would enjoy doing the proper calculations and detailed analysis required.
Back to How to Create Fantasy Football Draft Cheat Sheets
Back to Fantasy Football Strategy home page
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