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"I was tired of looking at massive, monolithic spreadsheets," Chen recalled in a rare 2018 interview. "Experts would give you a list of 200 players ranked 1 to 200. But the difference between player #12 and #13 is often statistically meaningless." boris chen
If you’ve ever Googled “fantasy football rankings” on a Wednesday morning, you’ve seen his work. A cascading wall of colored rectangles—red for "must-start," blue for "flex," green for "deep sleepers"—organized not by simple point projections, but by tiers . Chen’s visualizations have become the Rosetta Stone of fantasy football, and his story is a masterclass in how one person can use design and data to deconstruct an entire industry’s anxiety. Chen, a New Jersey-based technologist with a background in computational biology and web development, never set out to be a fantasy guru. In the early 2010s, he was just another obsessive manager frustrated by the status quo. By [Author Name] "I was tired of looking