But what exactly is , and why do experienced fantasy managers swear by it? More Than Just Rankings Boris Chen doesn’t poll his own opinion. Instead, he practices a form of wisdom of the crowds — he aggregates expert rankings from across the industry (think FantasyPros, ESPN, Rotoworld, CBS, etc.) and runs them through a clustering algorithm. The result? A beautiful, intuitive chart that strips away the noise.
Each player appears as a dot. Dots closer together form — clusters of players who experts, collectively, view as roughly equal. The vertical (Y) axis represents average rank, and the horizontal (X) axis spreads players out to show confidence intervals.
Tier 1 fantasy resource. Use it. Trust the clusters.
But what exactly is , and why do experienced fantasy managers swear by it? More Than Just Rankings Boris Chen doesn’t poll his own opinion. Instead, he practices a form of wisdom of the crowds — he aggregates expert rankings from across the industry (think FantasyPros, ESPN, Rotoworld, CBS, etc.) and runs them through a clustering algorithm. The result? A beautiful, intuitive chart that strips away the noise.
Each player appears as a dot. Dots closer together form — clusters of players who experts, collectively, view as roughly equal. The vertical (Y) axis represents average rank, and the horizontal (X) axis spreads players out to show confidence intervals.
Tier 1 fantasy resource. Use it. Trust the clusters.