Week 15 Thursday and Saturday NFL Fantasy Predictions

This week we have our last Thursday night game of the season.  However, we also have two Saturday games (one afternoon, one night).  Since I already plan on having a blog post on Saturday with win probabilities for the first week of

Week 14 Thursday Night Football Fantasy Projections

Austin Jazz Week 13 Update Ouch!  Not only did I lose, but my game was featured in our league as being the Biggest Blowout of the Week!  I didn’t have much of a chance at all really.  When all was said and

Week 13 Fantasy Football Projections

Austin Jazz Week 12 Update The Austin Jazz is on a three game Win Streak!!! Yahoo!!! All right, getting a little ahead of myself, but I’m rather proud of how I’ve done the last few weeks.  Last week, there was once again

Week 12 Fantasy Football Projections

Ags Win in 7-OT Game! Don’t normally talk about college football here, but that game last night was pretty darn insane!  I can’t imagine how all the fans in the stands felt being there for a five hour game.  It was pretty

Week 10 Fantasy Football Predictions

Austin Jazz Week 9 Recap I don’t even know what to make of what happened to my team last week. I thought maybe I just hadn’t prepared to have a couple of key players on a Bye week (which is even worse

Week 9 Fantasy Football Predictions

Austin Jazz Week 8 Recap There is probably nothing worse in the world than losing by one point in Fantasy Football.  Well, okay, there is a lot more worse in the world, but at that moment on a Sunday night at 10:30

Forecasting Oil Futures with SARIMAX: A Simple and “Crude” Approach

Introduction A few weeks ago, I published a post on predicting Avocado Prices that, I thought, turned out pretty well using the SARIMAX algorithm in the Statsmodels library in Python.  Shortly afterward, while on a trip to Houston, I was talking about that blog post with

Week 5 Fantasy Football Predictions

This last weekend was seriously disappointing for me.  After Kirk Cousins and Stefon Diggs (Minnesota) had monster games giving me nearly 50 fantasy points on Thursday night, I thought I was going to be able to cruise to an easy win.  Unfortunately

Week 4 Fantasy Football Predictions

Yeah, I’m looking at you, dude! As mentioned in my previous post, I had my first loss in the Fantasy Football (FF) season last weekend.  I lost by a whopping 20 points.  Unfortunately Kirk Cousins (Minnesota) and Stefon Diggs (Minnesota) as well