Dear Comunio Users
As you may have heard, this 2017-2018 season marks the first season that we at Sportradar have become the official data partners for Comunio across its European fantasy football markets. What this means is that the player performance scores that each player playing in the biggest European football leagues secures are predominantly based on Sportradar’s data, analysis and algorithms.
We have followed recent concerns that some of you have raised across social media, blogs and direct communications and we thought it might be useful to provide some extra information to help address those concerns.
The reason that Comunio decided to partner with Sportradar was because unlike most fantasy sites today that create their scores based on the subjective judgment of individual human observers, we decided to move the market forward. We decided to limit how much subjectivity goes into the collection and creation of the player scores, in order to ensure that Comunio users get the most objective, consistent and clear scoring system in the market.
Attached you will find a rundown of key actions and events that are factored into our algorithm. What we would stress is that we have created a deep list of relevant factors to get a really holistic sense of each player’s performance and impact. We have also ensured that our algorithms weight scores according to the playing position of each player, so that for example a striker gets rewarded more for a won duel than he loses for a lost duel, since historical data suggests that on average, strikers have a disadvantage in duels.
We understand that, as fans, we can all have different views on the relevance of these factors and of course you will have your own views about how important any single factor should be. That is why we all love following football. But this post and the attached rundown reflects our appreciation of the huge amount of time and energy that you, the community of Comunio users, invest into creating and updating your lineups. We want to be as transparent as possible with you. Comunio users deserve the most cutting edge and exciting fantasy football experience on the market and we are confident that the new Comunio/Sportradar system is not only the fairest but also uniquely challenging and innovative.
We won’t be responding to individual questions or comments relating to the factors and weightings – we have to keep some details of the ‘magic formula’ secret! But we will continue to do our best to help ensure Comunio offers you the best fantasy experience possible.
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