Greetings Razzball Nation. Unlike that lazy Pennsylvanian rodent, I’ve arisen from my winter bunker a month earlier than usual to recap what turned out to be a memorable Year 2 in the life of the Razzball Pigskinonator aka my first robot child with my second android wife (I had the MLB Streamonator and Hittertron with […]
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Author: Rudy Gamble
Rudy is the co-founder of Razzball and the wizard behind the Player Rater, Streamonator, HitterTron, DFSBot, Pigskinator, Stockonator and most other statty things on the site. You can contact him at [email protected] or via Twitter @rudygamble.
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We feel we are the best in-season fantasy baseball subscription service for both season-long and DFS. It is possible that our ethos of ‘We give advice for free, avoid massive cost outlays for fancy software, and ensure our collective investment (our time, your money) goes towards creating/maintaining the best projections and powerful but simple tools’ is not for everyone. So be it.
Getting to where we are in MLB was not easy, it did not happen overnight, and it never would have happened without the feedback and support of everyone at Razzball Nation (I know that sounds like standard BS but loyal readers know Streamonator was a commenter idea – I just executed and iterated on it.).
It was about 15 months ago that Grey and I decided to invest in building the best fantasy football subscription service. We knew it would be a massive learning curve and that there are some great, established players in this space. While I imagine we will be even better 12 months from now than we are today, I highly suggest jumping on board for 2017 because things are looking really good and we need the support to justify continued investment.
Please, blog, may I have some more? Fantasy Football Tools Update + Preseason Projections
August 11, 2017 | 2017 Draft Tools, 2017 Fantasy Football | 9 Commentsby: Rudy Gamble
Last year was our first foray into Fantasy Football season-long and DFS tools and I am hard at work finalizing the improvements for 2017 (stay tuned for an announcements in the next week or two – fyi, there will be a discount for current MLB subscribers). Â As part of these improvements, we will be projecting Rest of Season projections throughout the NFL season. Unlike MLB, these will be based on the exact matchups – e.g., the system runs all the games on a team’s schedule and then sums up the stats.
Please, blog, may I have some more? Rudy’s Zag Picks, Week 4
October 1, 2016 | 2016 Fantasy Football, 2016 Weekly Rankings | 6 Commentsby: Rudy Gamble
Rudy is the person behind our Pigskinonator and DFSBot football projections and is also behind the baseball ‘bots (Streamonator, Hittertron, etc.) and NFL/MLB player pages. This weekly piece will focus on players where the Pigskinonator diverge from the popular consensus.
Happy Week 4! The first season of our fantasy football projections tool (aka Pigskinonator) is going well. If you haven’t checked it out yet, check it out NOW. Last free week! Projected stats for all QB, RB, WR, TE, DST and IDP!
The regresssion fairy was kind enough to take only a small dump in our robot’s mouth during its required 15 minute daily nap as it finished 49th out of 138 experts in Week 3 after a precociously high 4th in Week 2. The most promising aspect of it all is that these results are occuring while importing our player ranking in total whereas most experts are manually adjusting players up/down. The difference is that the the default rankings are based on the consensus average rankings for players which inherently has ‘wisdom of crowds’ built into it. This helps bad rankings become solid but does nothing IMO to make solid rankings become great. We’re shooting for great and I think we’ll get there.
No new functionality adds this week but made some improvements in the robot code that should improve the allocation of rushing attempts and targets.
Onto my picks…
Please, blog, may I have some more? Rudy’s Zag Picks, Week 3
September 24, 2016 | 2016 Fantasy Football, 2016 Rankings, 2016 Weekly Rankings | 9 Commentsby: Rudy Gamble
Rudy is the man behind our Pigskinonator and DFSBot football projections and is also behind the baseball ‘bots (Streamonator, Hittertron, etc.) and NFL/MLB player pages. This weekly piece will focus on players where the Pigskinonator diverge from the popular consensus.
Before I starting raving/railing on some players, let me get the tool and player page updates out of the way first:
- We’ve launched the FanDuel and DraftKings NFL lineup optimizers – powered by our pals LineupLab. While it isn’t free (!) through Week 4 like the Pigskinonator and DFSBot projections, you can try both optimizers out for only $2.99/week for the next 2 weeks. It’s super easy and we’ve got a ton of the Pigskinonator projections baked into the optimizer!
- The football player pages (see Matt Forte) now h ave two news sources – FantasyPros and Rotoballer. We’ve worked hard to make the Game Logs as useful as possible and to put the most important stuff (this week’s projections) right at the top.
Okay, with that out of the way, I’m going into Week 3 with a little more confidence.
Please, blog, may I have some more? Football Player Pages Now Live!
September 16, 2016 | 2016 Fantasy Football, Fantasy Football Tools | 3 Commentsby: Rudy Gamble
Following up on last week’s launch of weekly in-season NFL projections – aka the Pigskinonator – we are psyched to announce that we now have fantasy football player pages for all QB, RB, WR, TE, and defensive players!
Just like with baseball, our goal is to create the most useful player pages for FANTASY players. You’re our only target. We feel the big sports sites awkwardly bridge the gap between actual and fantasy sports fans – usually at the detriment of the degenerate latter. Not us! (I refuse to put a picture of the player’s face on our player pages. Last time I checked, there are no fantasy categories involving faces. Just a waste of space on the page.)
Some highlights:
Please, blog, may I have some more?Greetings from the secret, WiFi-enabled Razzball bunker! It has taken a while but we finally got our robots to broaden their heretofore MLB-limited expertise and start cranking out NFL in-season projections for both season-long (Standard, 1/2 PPR, PPR) and DFS.
It has been a mad sprint to being ready opening day so I don’t have all the documentation to share but hoping the below summary will suffice for now.
Before I lose those of you who have no interest in how the sausage is made, we’re making both the season-long and DFS projections free for the first 4 weeks of the NFL Season. Below are the links (also can be found under Tools in the top menu). Player pages should be up shortly (ETA end of next week).
Please, blog, may I have some more? Razzball Thoughts on the Penn State Fiasco
July 16, 2012 | College Football | 16 Commentsby: Rudy Gamble
While we don’t generally cover college football, the fictional sports blogger unions we belong to and our search engine optimization consultants insisted that we write a post with Razzball’s thoughts on the investigation of Penn State led by former FBI director Louis Freeh. Â Here it goes… So Penn State now joins the Catholic Church in […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?Rudy Gamble is a sporadic contributor on the baseball side of the Razzball blog but now that he moved from New York to a college football town he’s pretending to be an expert in a second sport… Unless you’re the type of college football junkie who attends spring practices and follow high school scouting reports, […]
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