Fantasy University - Ten fantasy football terms to know
Yahoo Fantasy analyst Matt Harmon defines the most important terms for playing fantasy football.
Video Transcript
These are the top 10 fantasy terms.
You need to know.
Number one AD P average draft position.
Ad P refers to where fantasy players have been selecting a specific NFL player on average during draft season.
Pretty self intuitive.
For example, Christian mccaffrey's ad P is 1.01 as in he has been the first player taken in the first rounds of drafts on average.
Number two sealing term used to describe kind of like the high range of a player's outcomes.
A player who reaches their ceiling is a player who has surpassed their average performance expectations.
Yeah.
Number three floor, this is a term we use to describe the starting range of a player's performance outcomes when we say like, oh this guy, the floor is wide receiver 24.
That's kind of the bare minimum of his expectations, but he could go even higher than that.
Number four mock draft.
A mock draft is simply just a fake draft that people go through to kind of understand how drafts play out their expectations.
A mock draft is basically just your practice draft before the real thing before the season starts.
Number five pick up this is when a fantasy manager adds a player off the waiver wire and or free agent pool, they take them from the free agents and they add them to their roster.
You're gonna need to make pickups every week.
So this is an important term to know.
Number six projections, projections are used to guess what a player stat line will be.
It's not an exact proxim, but it helps you get in the ballpark.
Us analysts will use historical player data and team data to put together well informed projections for a player on a on a season or weekly basis.
Number seven, stashing, stashing refers to when a fantasy manager adds a player to their active roster but puts them on the bench.
You're not trying to use this player, right?
A but you might be saving them for a specific point in the season.
Now we're gonna reach the nebulous terms.
People weirdly fight about in uh our fantasy space here for the final three starting with eight Sleeper.
Sleeper is just a phrase used to describe kind of a little known or maybe underappreciated player who can well out kick their season expectations, whether it's skill related opportunity situation, whatever number nine is a breakout, this is a mo given to a player who is going to reach a new previously uncharted unusually expected level of positive performance.
Basically, this is someone that is just gonna take their game to a new heights.
Number 10 is a bust.
This is a moniker given to a player or team who falls well short of season expectations.
Normally, this is a player who's going very early in your draft that you might want to avoid because there are some warning signs that they might not work out.