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Fantasy Points & Touches Added to Player Streak Finder

Posted by Mike Lynch on October 16, 2015

Pro Football Reference has added Fantasy Points and Touches as search criteria in the Player Streak Finder. These additions allow users to search for the most impressive streaks of fantasy dominance and/or high usage since 1960 (the first season for which we have full player game logs for skill positions). We'd like to thank our friend Scott Pianowski for passing along this suggested addition.

The standard Fantasy Points are calculated as:

Passing Yards: 1 point per 25 yards passing
Passing Touchdowns: 4 points
Interceptions: -2 points
Rushing Yards: 1 point per 10 yards
Rushing Touchdowns: 6 points
Receiving Yards: 1 point per 10 yards
Receiving Touchdowns: 6 points
Fumble Recovered for a Touchdown: 6 points
2-Point Conversions: 2 points
Fumbles Lost: -2 points

For DFS players, DraftKings Points and FanDuel Points are also available as sorting options.

Touches are calculated by adding up rush attempts, receptions, kickoff returns & punt returns.

These new additions allow users to get some perspective on the dominant fantasy streak Devonta Freeman is on. Thursday's game was his fourth straight with 25+ Fantasy Points. That makes him the first RB to do that since LaDainian Tomlinson, who had an eight-game streak in 2006.

Or if you search for streaks with 35+ DraftKings Points (which rewards a point per reception), you can see that Freeman has matched a record, becoming just the third player since 1960 with 35+ DraftKings Points in four straight games (and yes, we acknowledge this is an anachronism since DraftKings didn't exist the last time this happened, but this shows just how rare Freeman's performance streak is).

Rushing Receiving
Tm Count Att Yds TD Rec Yds TD DKPt From To
Devonta Freeman ATL 4* 84 462 8 25 233 1 157.5 Sep 27, 2015 Oct 15, 2015 See all games »
LaDainian Tomlinson SDG 4 85 564 12 15 205 2 187.9 Oct 29, 2006 Nov 19, 2006 See all games »
Larry Johnson KAN 4 115 642 9 11 114 1 158.6 Dec 11, 2005 Jan 1, 2006 See all games »
Provided by Pro-Football-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 10/16/2015.

Similarly, Freeman has tied the record for consecutive games with 29+ FanDuel Points.

Finally, with Touches added to the streak finder, you can now search for things like the longest streaks of games with 15+ touches this season.

We hope you enjoy these new features and, as always, please let us know if you have any comments or questions.

Related posts:

  1. Daily Fantasy Points added to Game Finder, player pages
  2. Daily Fantasy Points Added to Player Game Logs
  3. DraftKings Points Added to Player Game Logs
  4. Added Fantasy Points to the Player Finders
  5. Added Fantasy Points to the Player Finders

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