Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Stats Don't Lie...#2

In case you didn't notice yet, Division 1 had all four of the highest scoring teams in Week 1.  Is it just luck that all these 2009 AU Accounting/Management grads nailed their week one starters, or do they truly have deep teams that will be hard to beat should injuries occur?

If, for week one, the two highest scoring players on your roster had to be benched and replaced by players from your bench of the same position, the Week 1 finals would be as follows:

A Pryor Affair          79.72
Flacco is Wacko      75.86
Lehman Brothers      74.60
DogPound                67.32
Maverick                  66.36
Rackin it Up              66.16
WhenNRome            65.64
Floaters                     65.38
Ghetto Gangsta          57.48
Defenestrators           52.22
MissNColtsNCOS    50.88
The First Wives Club 47.16

(The only exception to the rule is this: if high scoring players didn't have bench replacements, the next highest scoring player w/ a replacement was selected.  This list is not meant to help show who has the best team, but rather try and quantify which teams have great depth.  The Bell Curve Distribution seems to confirm the test as legitimate.)

As you notice, the top two teams here (A Pryor Affair & Flacco is Wacko) are in Division 1.  However, the other two Division 1 (Ghetto Gangsta & Defenestrators) teams fell towards the bottom with little depth.  Alternatively, DogPound (who finished last in scoring this week) finds himself at the top of this depth chart as his two highest scoring players from Week 1 were on his bench.  We can revisit this depth statistic later this season using total points.  Until then you may consider updating your team's depth, because as you know, Stats Don't Lie...

4 comments:

  1. Since you say you have a nice bell curve would you mind calculating a standard deviation and r-squared for me? I'd like to see how conclusive your sample size actually is.

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  2. Would love to, but I forget how. Did you really expect me to learn anything from that awful Statistics professor?

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  3. ok guys here's the deal. Yes, stats do not lie. However, we are dealing with people and people are variables that change by the second with the wind. We all know that numbers can prove/predict alot of things, but when it comes to managing a group of people the only thing that is certain is the kind of "smack talk" one can provide to proove their own numbers. Yes I was at the botttom of the list, but did you (Isaac) also consider the fact that some peoples bench consisted of people who were suspended/injured for that week? Numbers can predict alot of things, but they can't predict the complete outcome of fantasy football games!!

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