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@koalatystats

Trying to predict the future | B.S. in Statistics from UGA | Bad at Social Media, but I try my best https://koalatystats.substack.com/

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Terion Stewart vs. The World. ๐Ÿ’ช

Of the 223 qualifying college RBs in 2025, Stewart ranks:

โœ…1st in Missed Tackles Forced/Att

๐Ÿฅบ223rd in Yards Before Contact/Att

24.02.2026 17:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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2026 RB Class: Who creates their own yards vs. who is a product of their O-Line? ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’จ ๐Ÿจ

23.02.2026 22:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Joseph Bryan | Substack I use data science and statistics to predict the future in the NFL. I like validated Rsq and tend to make predictions that go against the grain. I have a grudge against "models" that don't share criti...

I mostly do stuff on Twitter and Substack!

substack.com/@koalatystat...

03.01.2026 06:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ‘นWeek 10 Single Coverage Monsters ๐Ÿ‘น

These are players who benefit the most from single coverage playing against teams that allow a lot of single coverage

high ๐ŸŽ†BOOM๐ŸŽ† potential

koalatystats.substack.com/p/nfl-week-1...

09.11.2025 04:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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NFL Week 10 Analytics Preview: Advanced Stats, Predictions, and Hidden Value #5 Rising in Sports! ATL with an upset in Germany???? Against OUR COLTS???

NFL Week 10 Analytics Preview: Advanced Stats, Predictions, and Hidden Value

- FREE Preview of the Germany game
- 2100 people just got this as an email
- Could be a BIG Tight End week

koalatystats.substack.com/p/nfl-week-1...

07.11.2025 21:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐ŸŽฏ Coach, I Was Open - Week 9 ๐ŸŽฏ

FREE

I go over the players who have been missing out on the most targets all season! DK Metcalf was WIDE OPEN for a TD last week.
www.pff.com/news/fantasy...

31.10.2025 16:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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NFL Week 8 Analytics Preview: Advanced Stats, Predictions, and Hidden Value 4 Weeks in a row above 100 likes!! Week 7 last year we had 30!

NFL Week 8 Analytics Preview: Advanced Stats, Predictions, and Hidden Value!

- FREE
- 2000+ people just got this as an email
- in depth write ups of most games

koalatystats.substack.com/p/nfl-week-8...

24.10.2025 21:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Identifying fantasy football, DFS breakout candidates ahead of Week 8 Using route-level PFF data and the Predicted Targets Model, these players could be in line for large fantasy performances in Week 8.

I NEED A HERO - Week 8 Route Based Heroes

- FREE
- Week 7 Predicted TWO TOP FIVE WRS
- 4 Heroes to save your lineups

www.pff.com/news/identif...

24.10.2025 16:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fantasy Football: Identifying the players who could see more targets in Week 8 Joseph Bryan's "Coach, I Was Open" model deducts which players could receive more targets in Week 8, including D.K. Metcalf.

COACH, I WAS OPEN - Week 8

- Identified OVERALL WR1s 50% of the year so far
- FREE
- what more do you want?

2025 Season-long Share of Predicted Target leaders pictured below

www.pff.com/news/fantasy...

24.10.2025 13:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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NFL Week 7 Analytics Preview: Advanced Stats, Predictions, and Hidden Value THREE WEEKS IN A ROW ABOVE 100 LIKES. YALL ARE AWESOME

NFL Week 7 Analytics Preview: Advanced Stats, Predictions, and Hidden Value

- Hit a +2800 last week!
- its FREE
- I look into EVERY SINGLE GAME THIS WEEK

koalatystats.substack.com/p/nfl-week-7...

17.10.2025 21:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Identifying fantasy football, DFS breakout candidates ahead of Week 7 Using route-level PFF data and the Predicted Targets Model, these players could be in line for large fantasy performances in Week 7.

I NEED A HERO - Week 7 Route Based Heroes

Step 1: Create the most predictive receiving metric in all of football (PWOPR)
Step 2: Predict Fantasy Points Per Game with it
Step 3: Find the players who need to positively regress

www.pff.com/news/identif...

17.10.2025 16:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fantasy Football: Identifying the players who could see more targets in Week 6 Joseph Bryan's "Coach, I Was Open" model deducts which players could receive more targets in Week 6, including Travis Kelce.

My FREE 'Coach, I Was Open' model predicted THE WR1 ON THE WEEK

no big deal, no big deal

www.pff.com/news/fantasy...

13.10.2025 16:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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NFL Week 6 Analytics Preview: Advanced Stats, Predictions, and Hidden Value TWO WEEKS IN A ROW ABOVE 100 LIKES WHAT!?!?!?

NFL Week 6 Analytics Preview: Advanced Stats, Predictions, and Hidden Value

- 1900 people just got this as a FREE EMAIL
- Added a new spread model, and schematic advantage model to my analysis
- PWOPR EVERYWHERE

koalatystats.substack.com/p/nfl-week-6...

10.10.2025 20:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Identifying fantasy football, DFS breakout candidates ahead of Week 6 Using route-level PFF data and the Predicted Targets Model, these players could be in line for large fantasy performances in Week 6.

NFL WEEK 6 I NEED A HERO

- PWOPR is incredibly predictive and stable
- Wan'Dale Robinson already broke out!
- Who else could be on this list?!?!?!?

PWOPR leaders pictured below

FREE WRITE UP ON PFF
www.pff.com/news/identif...

10.10.2025 15:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fantasy Football: Identifying the players who could see more targets in Week 6 Joseph Bryan's "Coach, I Was Open" model deducts which players could receive more targets in Week 6, including Travis Kelce.

Week 6 Coach, I Was Open!

- Who was open in Week 5 & didn't get the targets they deserved?
- Is throwing it to player's my model says you should throw it to a good thing?
- Who made THE most insane mathematical plays last week?

FREE PFF Article!
www.pff.com/news/fantasy...

10.10.2025 15:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Identifying fantasy football, DFS breakout candidates ahead of Week 5 Using route-level PFF data and the Predicted Targets Model, these players could be in line for large fantasy performances in Week 5.

I normally post this on Twitter but I deleted it off my phone sooooo here is my FREE article on PFF predicting breakout NFL players in week 5 based on advanced analytics

www.pff.com/news/identif...

04.10.2025 02:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The residual is our โ€œoffensive coachingโ€ variable

***Note: This is obviously not a perfect representation of coaching, but I do believe it is the best I have personally seen.

26.06.2025 05:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Step 3: Take the residual - if you are familiar with statistics, you know the residual of a prediction is everything we could not explain with our model....

26.06.2025 05:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Step 2: Predict our new โ€œoffenseโ€ variable using player skill - I used PFF grades for every position to predict our new PCAโ€™d offense variable.....

26.06.2025 05:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How do you quantify NFL offensive coaching?

Step 1: Quantify โ€œoffenseโ€ - I used Principal Components Analysis on various important offensive metrics like EPA, Yards per Play, Series Conversion Rate, etc.....
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26.06.2025 05:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐ŸงฎNFL 2025 PROJECTED Play Calling Tendencies๐Ÿงฎ

Play calling is VITAL to fantasy and real life outcomes

Using the last 15 years of NFL play-by-play data I created play calling projections for the 2025 season ๐Ÿจ

24.06.2025 02:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sure does! Elite explosiveness and fantastic production!

15.04.2025 16:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a koala bear is holding a baby koala bear in its arms in a tree . ALT: a koala bear is holding a baby koala bear in its arms in a tree .

I worked very hard on this. I hope you enjoy the Stack post. It is very in depth and hopefully helpful. Please read it and check out the data i shared for FREE.

Please RT this thread, Share it, and like it. Everything here is FREE โค๏ธ I do it for the love of the game.

14.04.2025 20:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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2022 (Testing Set):
- Sad Skyy never became a thing
- Wandale truther til the day i die
- Shakir always shows up in every model

14.04.2025 20:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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2023:
- Puka being dragged down by PFF rank, but still looks like a sleeper here!
- I want Mims to be a thing so bad
- JSN's beast yards are much better than i would guess. good for him

14.04.2025 20:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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2024:
- Nabers was a slam dunk
- MHJ probably worth a trade if someone is willing to give him up
- Been trying to trade for Troy Franklin since i ran this.

14.04.2025 20:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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2025:
- Burden's elite sophomore season is a big reason to be optimistic. Great Career
- Tet is basically the same level of prospect as Burden in my model but doesnt have that Sophomore season boosting him
- Egbuka is not loved by my model but PFF rankings are pulling him up

14.04.2025 20:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Retweets and tags to people in the dynasty community would be much appreciated. I haven't really started building an audience on Bluesky yet ๐Ÿ˜…

@samhoppen.bsky.social
@pahowdy.bsky.social

are about all i know lol

14.04.2025 20:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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2025 Pre-Draft Wide Receiver Model Output

I published [almost] all of the data i used to create the model for FREE in this google doc. No one does this except@pahowdy.bsky.social, but hopefully this earns a like and retweet from you <3

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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