Fantasy Football Math: Using Stats to Score Big in Your League

by Matt Doeden

Football fans may never score a last-second, game-winning touchdown, but they can still capture some glory by playing fantasy football. Using statistical data and basic math, young football fans can learn all they need to know to run their own fantasy team and dominate their league.

32 pages, Paperback

Published August 1, 2016

About the author

Matt Doeden was born in southern Minnesota and lived parts of his childhood in Golden Valley, Minnesota, and Madison, Minnesota. He studied journalism at Mankato State University, where he worked at the college newspaper for three years. In his senior year, he served as the paper's Sports Editor, which put him in charge of the entire sports section, the sports writers, and the photographers. He covered mostly college sports, but also the Minnesota Vikings, who held training camp at MSU.

His work allowed him to meet and interview people like Dennis Green, Cris Carter, Robert Smith, and more. Matt went on to work as a sports writer for the Mankato paper, and then he got a job as an editor with a small children's publisher called Capstone Press, and in 2003 he decided to start his own business as a freelance writer and editor.

Since then, Matt has written and edited hundreds of books. Lots of them are on high-interest topics like cars, sports, and airplanes. He also writes and edits on geography, science, and even math.

Reviews

[Juan Ramirez · Rating 5 out of 5]

fun

Easy and fun . Like the scenarios and the pics. Great read . A little outdated, but I think I’m the only one reading this in 2024

[Hilary · Rating 4 out of 5]

Readers need not have ever been on a football team to be a success at Fantasy Football, a game that permits players to select a dream team of National Football League (NFL) players that compete in a fantasy league against other players’ dream teams. To be successful at this requires more than a knowledge of football. Gamers also must be able to understand math, especially statistics. Doeden describes how math informs sports decisions from drafting team players to selecting the team manager.

Well-written, engaging, and lavishly illustrated with colorful photographs in a dynamic, “Fantasy Football Math,” is sure to score with readers and football fans while filling a gap in many library collections.