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A fantasy football podcast devoted to high-level strategy in the abstract.
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Aug 13, 2017

Welcome to Fantasy Football, in Theory, your only podcast devoted to fantasy football strategy in the abstract.

 

How do the labels we use affect how we see things, taste things, hear things, feel things, and interact with the world around us? And perhaps more importantly, what the heck does this have to do with football? Special guest Matt Harmon joins us to discuss.

 

Content referenced during this episode includes:

Fighting through negativity bias and a wide receiver's drop issues: http://www.thebackyardbanter.com/fighting-through-negativity-bias-and-a-wide-receivers-drops.html

What You See is Not All There Is: http://subscribers.footballguys.com/apps/article.php?article=HarstadDiT29

The Crayola-fication of the World, parts 1 and 2: http://www.empiricalzeal.com/2012/06/05/the-crayola-fication-of-the-world-how-we-gave-colors-names-and-it-messed-with-our-brains-part-i/

http://www.empiricalzeal.com/2012/06/11/the-crayola-fication-of-the-world-how-we-gave-colors-names-and-it-messed-with-our-brains-part-ii/

What Quarterback Rate Stats Stay Most Consistant When a Quarterback Change Teams?: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog/index76ed.html?p=4152

What Quarterback Rate Stats Stay Most Consistent When a Team Changes Quarterbacks?: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog/index3801.html?p=4395

Thoughts on Running Back Yards per Carry: http://www.footballperspective.com/thoughts-on-running-back-yards-per-carry/

When Do Yards and Touchdowns Per Carry Stabilize?: http://intentionalrounding.com/when-do-yards-and-touchdowns-per-carry-stabilize/

Career Leaders in Yards Per Carry, (Era-Adjusted): http://www.footballperspective.com/career-leaders-in-yards-per-carry-era-adjusted/

 

If you enjoy my work, you can find it exclusively at www.footballguys.com. An archive of links to past articles of mine is also available at my blog, http://dynastytheory.blogspot.com/2014/08/a-link-to-all-my-writings.html.

 

If you have any other questions or comments, or you'd like to submit a topic for a future show, I can be reached via email at FantasyInTheory@Gmail.com, or on Twitter at @AdamHarstad.

 

Thanks for listening!

Jul 24, 2017

Welcome to Fantasy Football, in Theory, a fantasy football podcast dedicated to high-level fantasy strategy in the abstract.

 

In today's episode: Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant podcast about it from the comfort of their living rooms. 

 

 

If you enjoy my work, you can find it exclusively at www.footballguys.com. An archive of links to past articles of mine is also available at my blog, http://dynastytheory.blogspot.com/2014/08/a-link-to-all-my-writings.html.

 

If you have any other questions or comments, or you'd like to submit a topic for a future show, I can be reached via email at FantasyInTheory@Gmail.com, or on Twitter at @AdamHarstad.

 

Thanks for listening!

Jul 17, 2017

Welcome to Fantasy Football, in Theory, a brand new fantasy football podcast dedicated to high-level fantasy strategy in the abstract.

 

What do you do when one of your cornerstone beliefs is suddenly called into question? In the quest to be right, what does it mean to be wrong?

In our quest to answer that question, we'll discuss stupid bar bets, obtuse statistical biases, overconfident basketball researchers, the history of the philosophy of science, (not to be confused with the history of science or the philosophy of science), and go over a long list of stupid things that I have believed.

Here is a link to Believing We're Right isn't Being Right, the essay that inspired the episode: https://dynastytheory.blogspot.com/2015/07/believing-were-right-is-not-being-right.html

And, as promised, here's a list of things I've written about being wrong:

Musings on Confirmation Bias - http://subscribers.footballguys.com/apps/article.php?article=HarstadDiT1

A Thought Experiment to Ruin Your Day - http://subscribers.footballguys.com/apps/article.php?article=HarstadDiT35

Harvin Runs a Jet Sweep - http://subscribers.footballguys.com/apps/article.php?article=HarstadDiP7

The Wrong Way to Build a Dynasty - http://subscribers.footballguys.com/apps/article.php?article=HarstadWrongWay15

We're Probably Thinking about Age the Wrong Way - http://subscribers.footballguys.com/apps/article.php?article=HarstadMortalityTables

 

Also, a piece on the tendency of analytics to sometimes overconfidently assert that because they failed to find evidence of something, it must not exist - http://subscribers.footballguys.com/apps/article.php?article=HarstadDiT25

 

If you enjoy my work, you can find it exclusively at www.footballguys.com. An archive of links to past articles of mine is also available at my blog, http://dynastytheory.blogspot.com/2014/08/a-link-to-all-my-writings.html.

 

If you have any other questions or comments, or you'd like to submit a topic for a future show, I can be reached via email at FantasyInTheory@Gmail.com, or on Twitter at @AdamHarstad.

 

Thanks for listening!

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