Fantasy: scoring formats

Yardage carries over year to year

Holds upThe record backs this up, season after season.

This one is in the FanIQ library with the full rule, the reason it works, and every season we checked.

Held in 20 of 20 seasons, from 4,355 records measured.

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The Career Year Is a Loan, Not a RaiseOf the 112 skill players since 1999 who jumped 40% or more in yards per game, fewer than one in four held that level the following season.
Touchdowns Win Your Week and Lie About Next SeasonFor running backs, yards per game repeats from year to year at r = 0.598. Touchdown rate repeats at 0.187. One of those is a skill and one is mostly weather.

FanIQ carries this one in full: the rule itself, why it works, the season-by-season record, and the related laws.