Predicting Fantasy Football - Truth in Data
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Yahoo Sports provides an online fantasy football league to its user base. End users create leagues and then those individuals construct a roster of real NFL players each week for head-to-head competition. NFL players are assigned “fantasy points” based on their achievements in each football game, and each head-to-head matchup produces a winner and loser based on the respective teams’ accumulated fantasy points. Fantasy points are assigned based on elements such as rushing yards, receiving yards, passing yards, and points scored.
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