Fantasy Football 2015: Biggest Injury Risks Heading into the Season

August 26, 2015   ·   Jim McCormick   ·   Jump to comments

Predictive modeling is the rage these days. Daily fantasy sports have helped to spur a wave of data-driven models and curated algorithms.
Fantasy investors are more informed than ever, with rich resources available for every sport. One element that remains unpredictable, though, is injury. We want to know which players are at increased risk before we invest, but this has proved to be a fickle pursuit over time. 
Enter Sports Injury Predictor, a platform fueled by a patent-pending algorithm that seeks to formulate predictive injury assessment based on myriad factors specific to a given player's history and usage pattern.
In 2012, just a few years into his fantasy football career, Sports Injury Predictor's Jake Davidow marveled at the market's pricing of Darren McFadden. DMC was consistently going higher than Adrian Peterson, who was returning from an ACL injury.
In many ways, the market deemed Peterson a pr...

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