Our custom fantasy football cheat sheet interface already offers comprehensive player-level statistics to aid you when creating your player rankings. But when creating a fantasy football cheat sheet, there are times when it is useful to review NFL team stats from the previous year. For instance, by using a team's previous year's statistics as a baseline, then factoring in roster additions/subtractions, you can get a good idea of how touches will be distributed in an upcoming year. Extrapolating expected carries into projected fantasy point output and finally applying that information to your player rankings is what could take your fantasy football cheat sheet from good to great.
Let's say that you're trying to gauge the proper ranking for Tampa Bay's starting running back, LeGarrette Blount. You know that Blount had an impressive 2010 season and will be getting the majority of the carries in 2011. You also know that Cadillac Williams got a sizable portion of the carries in Tampa during 2010, carries that likely will be shifted to Blount in 2011.
At this point in our analysis it would obviously be useful to research Cadillac's exact 2010 workload by reviewing Tampa Bay 2010 team stats. Looking at the statistics we can see that in 2010 Cadillac Williams compiled 125 carries compared to Blount's 201 carries. Using some quick math, and assuming that Cadillac's 125 carries were given to Blount, it is plausible that Blount could have amassed an additional 750 yards (based on Cadillac's 125 carries and Blount's 5.0 YPC average) in 2010.
Knowing that Blount himself rushed for roughly 1000 yards in 2010, it would be logical to conclude that Blount could have rushed for as many as 1700 yards (and who knows how many TDs) in 2010 if Cadillac weren't there. Now in 2011, with Cadillac long gone, we have a better idea of what Blount's projection could look like in 2011. Applying our current knowledge to history data, made accessible through NFL team-level statistics, improves our projections and ultimately leads to more accurate cheat sheets. And we all know that accurate fantasy football cheat sheets lead to championships.
Accessing NFL team-level statistics through our football cheat sheet interface is now very simple. To view 2010 statistics for a particular team, simply click the helmet icon next to the respective player.
Once you click the team helmet, a new browser window will appear which displays the respective team's stats from 2010 via NFL.com. This page will list all team-level stats including player totals from the previous season.
At this point you can review whatever statistical data is necessary, then close the new browser window and return to your cheat sheet to continue with your rankings. We're always looking for ways to improve our cheat sheet interface and the addition of NFL team stats should simplify the process of researching statistics as you rank. As always we'd like to hear feedback from you on this or any other features you'd like to see implemented.