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Scott Barrett
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Helping you cash your bets and crush your fantasy leagues with @fantasypts | Pioneering NFL analytics with @fantasyptsdata | School of Scott podcast
Aug 29, 2025 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
The two most important things to know about fantasy football are that:

1) Upside Is Everything
2) Outliers Win Championships

I've written multiple articles on this, but here's the abridged version: Image The average drafter cares far too much about their batting average, and nowhere near as much as they should about their slugging percentage.

Or...

They care far too much about a player’s median projection (or most likely outcome) than their bull-case projection (or upside).
Dec 10, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Best to Worst Playoff Schedules

Based on Schedule-Adjusted Fantasy Points per Game Allowed (@FantasyPts) Quarterbacks

Best: Will Levis - remaining schedule is worth a +3.1 boost to his FPG average

Worst: Jared Goff - remaining schedule is worth a -2.4 knock to his FPG average Image
Aug 31, 2024 • 34 tweets • 9 min read
One dank stat for all 32 NFL teams:

Shoutout to @FantasyPtsData for making this so easy. 1. Arizona Cardinals

Since 2020, Kyler Murray ranks 3rd among all QBs in FPG (20.9), ahead of Lamar Jackson (20.7) who goes 50 picks earlier on ESPN.
Apr 27, 2024 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Every year, there is at least one player my model really liked who ultimately goes UDFA (e.g., Greg Dortch, Justyn Ross, Emanuel Hall, Ryan Bates).

This year it's Memphis RB Blake Watson.

Here's the upside argument: He has strong three-down potential.

Over his last 20 games, he averaged 103.5 rushing YPG and 39.7 receiving YPG.

That's exactly as many rushing YPG and 13.7 more receiving YPG than RB1 Jonathon Brooks' numbers last year.
Sep 18, 2023 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
How to win one million dollars playing DFS, a thread: Image Last night, SportsKings101 won $1M+ on just one $20 lineup

But he didn't just get lucky. He built a KILLER lineup, that was extremely sharp on multiple levels.

What was he thinking when building it? Could we have gotten there ourselves?

Here is an analysis of his lineup:
Jul 31, 2023 • 23 tweets • 5 min read
Is this the best year ever to go Zero-RB?

Yes.

Why? Because every RB you could possibly draft sucks ass.

Here's a thread. Deal with it 👇🧵 Christian McCaffrey (ADP: RB1)

Back in my day, the top RB drafted was usually someone who was a lock to lead his team in carries, not split time in a 55/45 committee backfield
Apr 23, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Tyquan Thornton is the Mock Draft Consensus WR22, projected to go in Round 5.

But he's probably one of my top-15 favorite WRs in this class. And I don't see any way he falls out of Day 2.

Thread: 🧵👇🏼 **Production + Efficiency Profile**

Broke out in his age 19.1 sophomore season, gaining 782 yards (22% YMS) on 68 targets

Or, 77% as many receiving yards as senior and future Round 2-pick Denzel Mims (2.8 years older) on only 60% as many targets
Jul 28, 2020 • 10 tweets • 6 min read
I can't stop thinking about the #Eagles' decision to draft WR Jalen Reagor over WR Justin Jefferson -- who went one pick later, to the #Vikings Was it speed, like @MoveTheSticks suggested? I don’t think so.

Justin Jefferson: 4.43 forty-yard-dash
Jalen Reagor: 4.47 forty-yard-dash

Jun 10, 2020 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Last year I wrote a weekly column on streaming defenses.

No one read it. No one cared.

I get it. But it’s still a position that accrues fantasy points for your team, and as such, it’s relevant. It’s a potential small edge to be maximized, and maximize we must. Because that’s all we have.

And streaming is glaringly the optimal approach.
Jun 5, 2020 • 22 tweets • 6 min read
Slot Wide Receivers Don’t Matter: A Thread

#SWRDM We've all heard that "Running Backs Don't Matter"

One argument: “RBs are a dime a dozen. Your GM is an idiot if he spends a Day 2 pick on a RB. Any UDFA will do.”

But are we sure slot wide receiver production isn’t just as (if not more) cheaply available / easily replaceable
May 30, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
I don't know if anyone cares as much as I do, but 'Fantasy Strength of Schedule' is a subject I've written about and grappled with for about 4-5 years now

With the help of the great @beerswater, there came a breakthrough

Here's what we came up with:

[Articles out this week] Essentially,,,

The difference between Joe Mixon’s schedule last year and his schedule this year is the difference between him finishing 20th (14.1) and 12th in fantasy points per game (15.9).
Mar 3, 2020 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
In our final attempt to find meaning - any meaning whatsoever - in the Combine, I wanted to look at the data in a slightly different way than straight correlations How athletic is an elite fantasy RB/WR/TE compared to an average one? Or an above average one to a below average one? What happens when we bring draft capital into the equation? What events might NFL teams be over/underweighting in the draft?
Sep 17, 2019 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
NFL Athletes Who Went Vegan: A Thread The first player I remember adopting a vegan diet was Arian Foster in July of 2012.

This was from the ESPN article covering the story:

espn.com/blog/nflnation…
Jul 30, 2019 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
What “Running Backs Don’t Matter” Means to Me

A thread: Rushing is massively inefficient compared to passing. Teams should be passing at a much higher rate.