Our Fantasy Football Draft Tool Software is unlike anything you’ve seen or used.
Beyond the “glorified spreadsheets” of other so-called draft tools…which are merely computer assisted player ranking and sorting systems… WaiverWire’s draft tool utilizes Artificial Intelligence to give you a statistical advantage!
Over two years in development, Waiver Wire engaged the highest level statisticians to analyze the fantasy football player evaluation and selection process. Waiver Wire’s team of statisticians analyzed over a decade of data, categorizing and prioritizing each player statistic for its relevancy and statistical significance. The result…Waiver Wire’s Intelligent Draft Tool.
Our draft tool applies gaming principals to “think ahead” by running 50,000 probability scenarios each time an NFL player is selected from the pool of available players.
Utilizing Artificial Intelligence to implement the statistical models and algorithms developed by our team of statisticians, our proprietary software provides an “assistant” to advise you at each step of the drafting process.
The advantage of using a system based in game theory is that it takes into account the likely behavior of other team owners in the draft…rather than simply using the expected point values of the players. Our state-of-the-art servers process thousands of computations to provide you with the best possible selection for your fantasy team based upon who you and your opponents have already selected…and anticipated future selections based on the skill level of your opponents.
Our in-depth research has shown that incorporating “predictor variables” (i.e., specific football knowledge for individual players) developed from our tested statistical models together with “historical predictors” from past playing statistics, increases the accuracy of the projected points a player will contribute to a gamer’s fantasy football team. Waiver Wire has incorporated both quantitative and qualitative “predictor variables” because each positional quantitative projection system varies slightly due to positional nuances. This results in a highly accurate points projection.
Our fantasy football draft tool estimates a number of risk factors that allow for the assessment of the volatility that holding a specific player may bring.
However, creating a fantasy football projection for a given player is incredibly complex and statistics can only go so far in projecting player performances. Players retire, move up or down on the depth chart, get hurt in the offseason, or have recognizably anomalous seasons that historically are almost impossible to replicate. There are more variables in football than in most other sports because a player’s production is very dependent on his teammates and situation, and the various positions progress in a dramatically different fashion over the years. Therefore, the draft tool also incorporates qualitative adjustments to individual players.
The draft tool’s algorithm suggests a pick based upon the picks and strategies of the opposing team owners, the available players, the chosen players, and the results of a simulated “season to conclusion” analysis. After considering all of those factors, the algorithm returns a pick for the next decision point that is game theoretically optimal. In short, Waiver Wire’s fantasy football draft tool incorporates all quantifiable variables proven to be statistically significant in predicting a NFL player’s future performance based on multiple phases of investigation, survey construction, analysis, testing, and verification. Period.