Quick Slant: SNF - Choose Your Shade of Blue
Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Game Environment * Cowboys * Giants I stared at my wife. We didn't say anything, but we spent the next 20 seconds having the same silent conversation: Is this really the best use of this $80? I smiled gently. She caught it and grimaced back.
Quick Slant: TNF - This Same Sacred Ground
Mat Irby’s Quick Slant Game Environment 49ers Rams On August 7, 1858, Melbourne had sprouted from a muddy colonial outpost into a gold-rush boomtown, swollen with ships, money, migrants and men who had come from half a world away to make their fortunes. The sod had been turned
Quick Slant: NFL Kickoff Game - Right Where We Left Off
Mat Irby’s Quick Slant * Game Environment * Patriots * Seahawks Everything faded from nothing at once, and I just came to – slight at first. Pressure, tugging, sterile light, moisture, heat, mechanical whirring, chatter, my growing form – it all rose. Then out. Asleep. Back again. Terrifying silence, the first I’d ever
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
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
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
