Yahoo Home Renee Miller, PhD is a Professor in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester. Her love of fantasy sports intersected with her career in 2013, resulting in a book called "Cognitive Bias in Fantasy Sports: Is your brain sabotaging your team?". Her goal is to help others make logical, rational, and evidence-based fantasy sports decisions.
Yahoo SportsFact or Fluke: Follow these fantasy playoff tips to avoid your biases messing up your lineup decisions
Renee Miller presents different suggestions for fantasy managers to adhere to during the most important weeks of the season.
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Fantasy Football Fact or Fluke: So your star(s) suffered an injury before the playoffs — now what?
Renee Miller drills down into some players who could contribute for fantasy after injuries struck before the biggest games of the year.
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Fantasy Football Fact or Fluke: Do these backup QBs offer hope or feel hopeless?
Renee Miller examines seven backup quarterbacks to determine if their play makes their respective skill players starts or sits in fantasy.
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Fantasy Football Fact or Fluke: Same faces, new places — what can we believe about player performance?
Renee Miller analyzes how several veterans in new locations or different roles have had their fantasy outlook change.
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Fantasy Football Fact or Fluke: When are sample sizes big enough to trust a player?
Renee Miller delves into how much we should see young players stand out before inserting them into fantasy football lineups.
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Fantasy Football Fact or Fluke: Which surprising tight ends have staying power?
Renee Miller examines the tight end position and recommends which players will remain valuable for fantasy football.
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Fantasy Football Fact or Fluke, Midseason Edition: Who has crushed their ADP?
Renee Miller presents a look at players who have outperformed their fantasy draft slots halfway through the NFL season.
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Fantasy Football Fact or Fluke: Which bye-week heroes have staying power?
Renee Miller takes a closer look at the trust level we should have when it comes to Week 7 surprise performances.
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Fantasy Football Fact or Fluke: Is it bad for Brock Purdy and ugly for Davante Adams?
Renee Miller dissects the good, bad and ugly in fantasy football in Week 6 and what it means going forward.
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Fantasy Football Fact or Fluke: Forget rough starts for Justin Fields, Ja'Marr Chase
Renee Miller reminds fantasy managers to look forward in making lineup decisions, as some players who started slowly erupted in Week 5.
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Fantasy Football Fact or Fluke: How have running back draft strategies fared so far?
Christian McCaffrey is fantasy's top overall scorer through four weeks, but running back as a whole has offered few right answers.
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Fantasy Football Fact or Fluke: Reality check on highs and lows of QB play ahead of Week 4
Renee Miller breaks down some of the QB surprises — good and bad — this season and what we can trust going forward.
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Fantasy Football Fact or Fluke: Where should we expect consistency and volatility?
Renee Miller examines murky situations that have fantasy football managers wondering what to believe after two weeks of action.
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Fantasy Football Fact or Fluke: Is Puka Nacua for real, and more Week 1 storylines to make sense of
Fantasy football analyst and neuroscientist Renee Miller debuts the 2023 edition of Fact or Fluke!
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Don't let biases make you forget these important fantasy football notes in 2023 draft season
Fantasy football analyst and neuroscientist Renee Miller highlights some major 2022 trends we cannot forget about when it's time to draft in 2023.
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Fantasy Football Fact or Fluke: Are these running backs trustworthy in championship week?
Fantasy football analyst and neuroscientist Renee Miller breaks down the recent performances of some key RBs to see who could lead us to a trophy in Week 17.
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Fantasy Football Fact or Fluke: Who could be an unlikely playoff hero?
Fantasy football analyst and neuroscientist Renee Miller highlights some intriguing, yet under-rostered players who could surprise in the playoffs.
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Fantasy Football Fact or Fluke: Don't let your mind's biases influence your playoff lineup choices
Fantasy football analyst and neuroscientist Renee Miller offers up her last-minute tips for the playoffs!
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Fact or Fluke: How will major injuries impact fantasy football playoff pushes?
Fantasy football analyst and neuroscientist Renee Miller breaks down some of the most eye-opening performances from Week 13.
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Fantasy Football Fact or Fluke: Week 12 brought a lot of lineup regret — but what can we learn from it?
Fantasy football analyst and neuroscientist Renee Miller breaks down some of the most eye-opening performances from Week 12.