Fantasy Football 2012: Historically Speaking Week 1, Dallas at Giants

August 7, 2012   ·   Jim Day   ·   Jump to comments

Trying to determine what a player will do in any given week is what we as writers try to do for the entire season; but some will miss a large indicator of future success. This hidden indicator is how a player performs against a bitter rival. We all talk about the big rivalries, but don’t often take into account whether a player will perform better against an opponent they face two times every year.
Each week for the rest of the season I will break down big divisional games to show how the players have performed against that specific team over the past three years. Granted, they have all played three years in the NFL. For the players that have been in the league for a few years, six games will provide a sufficient amount of data to prove correlation.
For the first article in this series we will cover the Dallas Cowboys playing the New York Giants on opening night in New York. The game will kick off the season Wednesday, Sept. 5 at 8:30 p.m.
The scoring that will be ...

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