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Fantasy matchups: Week 1

By Bill Barnwell
Football Outsiders

Friday, September 11, 2009

The last thing the world needs is another fantasy matchups column. Often the harebrained opinions of a lone observer, he'll talk about 20 or 30 players, then point to the few he got right in the following week as a sign of his "expertise." Give us a break. The reason this column exists is to provide a rational, coherent alternative to that sort of analysis. Using defense-adjusted value over average (DVOA), Football Outsiders' dynamic metric that adjusts performance on a play-by-play basis for ...

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