Mat Irby

Mat Irby

Mat has written for RotoViz and the Fantasy Footballers and has played fantasy football since 1991. Happily married and a father of two, Mat works on major movies and TV shows when he must.

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Mat Irby's Apex Score: Tight Ends

If you’ve been sticking with me lately, you’ve seen me slowly roll out a metric I’m calling Apex Score. The idea behind Apex Score is to boil indicators of future upside down to a single number. This, alone, may be foolish. I’ve gotten really deep into

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Mat Irby's Apex Score: Quarterbacks

In the last two weeks, I’ve written damn near 15,000 words about WRs and RBs, going round-by-round to compare Apex Scores to ADP in search of market inefficiencies. This time, I’m doing things differently. * Introducing Apex Score: Quantifying Upside and Beating Redraft ADP at Running

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Mat Irby's Apex Score: Wide Receiver

Apex Score vs. Redraft Market ADP Vol. 2: Wide Receivers Last week, I introduced Apex Score using my beta RB model, which correlated to future Apex results better than any other common Primary or advanced stat in fantasy analysis (but with the caveat that this is sort of eating its

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Introducing Apex Score: Quantifying Upside and Beating Redraft ADP at Running Back

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Apex Hunting: Dynasty TE Floor Traps You Should Consider Selling Now

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Apex Hunting: Dynasty TE Buys with Legendary Upside

Mat Irby’s Apex Hunting Series All through the spring and summer, I’ve been dropping some dynasty buys and sells, but these aren’t based on the typical value arguments you’re accustomed to. I’m an upside guy, working for an upside publication, so I figured I’d

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Apex Hunting: Dynasty QB Floor Traps You Should Consider Selling Now

Mat Irby’s Apex Hunting Series This spring, I’ve been scrutinizing the marketplace through KeepTradeCut’s crowdsourced dynasty ranks, searching for buy and sell candidates. But unlike most value-based dynasty articles, I’m framing these arguments strictly around upside. Here at Legendary Upside, we have built our brand

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Apex Hunting: Dynasty QB Buys with Legendary Upside

Mat Irby’s Apex Hunting Series This offseason, I’ve taken a new spin on the typical buy/sell article you might see in most of the dynasty spaces out there; rather than a strict value argument, I’m basing the whole enchilada on upside. In other words, I’m