Defense doesn't matter in Fantasy leagues. Sure, there are some leagues that count errors, but they are fairly rare. For the most part, an owner doesn't care about owning a terrible defensive player ...

Five years ago quarterbacks around the league threw for an average of 240.2 yards per game. Now that has plummeted to 212.3 ...

As was mentioned in our preview of advanced hitting stats, we’re really excited about the addition of advanced stats for Yahoo Fantasy Baseball. And advanced metrics are especially valuable for ...

Nebraska may have been the first school to hire a person devoted solely to sports analytics, but it is not alone in college football using advanced metrics. There’s more data available than ever ...

(The full, nine-inning Playbook was originally published during the spring of 2020. It has been updated for 2021 where applicable.) Baseball is such a different game today than it was when rotisserie ...

Helping as many as possible to better understand the meanings behind the statistics and models that make up advanced hockey stat analysis is essential when it comes to expanding the conversations ...

In 2002, Billy Beane’s Oakland Athletics team revolutionized baseball by minimizing subjective human input through the use of advanced statistics. This approach dumbed down the game into one that ...

Today’s column looks at a wide variety of stats and how they correlate to fantasy values. Is usage rate a useful metric for explaining or predicting fantasy production in 8-cat and 9-cat leagues? How ...

Welcome to the latest episode of Hot Takedown, FiveThirtyEight’s sports podcast. On this week’s show (Oct. 11, 2016), we bring you another edition of “Stat School.” That usually means that Statman, ...

Statistics tells stories. Sometimes people use statistics to tell a story they’ve already written, and sometimes people use statistics to disprove someone else’s story. In fantasy baseball, we use ...