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Just throwing it out there - there are a couple AWESOME R packages for the NFL.
nflscrapR - for NFL play-by-play data, lots of expected points added and other calculations you can do from this ffanalytics - for general fantasy football data scraping (recently updated to tidyverse friendly syntax)
I'm doubling down on what @taras said! I REALLY hope to be able to attend this one!