Learn to Code with Fantasy Football
Python. Pandas. Web Scraping. Databases. SQL. Machine Learning. APIs.
All applied to Fantasy Football.
Learn Python & Data Science Fundamentals with Fantasy Football
Learning to code isn't hard, there's just a learning curve. That's why the most important thing is starting with a project you're excited about.
This book will take you from playing around with stats in Excel to scraping websites, building databases and running your own machine learning models.
“This book was really, really well done.”
Learn How to Do Your Own Football Analysis in Python
You'll learn — step by step and applied to fantasy fooball — how to program your own analysis. You'll also learn how to make plots like these 👇:
☝️ with 2 lines of code!
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Book
Includes book, datasets, example scripts, end of chapter problems with full solutions, and flashcards.
The 270 page book in PDF format + files
300+ spaced repetition flash cards
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Book + 2021 Developer Kit
The book, files and flashcards, plus the 2021 developer kit. Includes API and Fantasy Math web access for the 2021 season.
The 270 page book in PDF format + files
300+ spaced repetition flash cards
Four step-by-step project guides + final code
2021 Fantasy Math Simulation API Access
2021 Fantasy Math Web Access
30 day money back guarantee!
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“I've taken automate the boring stuff, python for finance, etc and while those course are great... I seem to be understanding it better because its about a subject I like.”
2021 Fantasy Football Developer Kit
A project based guide to help you get better at Python and fantasy football. Analyze your team using state of the art tools that you build.
What We'll Make
2021 Projects
Automatic Team & League Import - NEW
We'll write code to pull down player and matchup info from your ESPN, Yahoo, Fleaflicker or Sleeper leagues, learning more about real life APIs, authentication and more along the way.
After that, we'll connect this project to the league analyzer and who do I start calculator projects below for instant analysis.
Who Do I Start Calculator
We'll build a tool that takes in you and your opponents lineup, a list of guys you're thinking about starting and returns the probability of winning with each one.
Access to the 2021 API means you'll be able to use it to help your team this year. And the same, best-in-class simulations Fantasy Math uses means you'll be able to take into account variance and real life correlations among players to start the guy who maximizes your probability of winning.
League Analyzer
We'll build a league analysis tool to get get projections, betting lines, over-under and probability each team gets the high or low. Whether you share the results with your league or keep the intel to yourself is up to you.
Best Ball Projector
Enter in different best ball lineups and get back projected scores, utilization percentages and more. Traditionally, projecting best ball lineups has been difficult/impossible to do with any real accuracy, but working with simulated point projections makes it easy. Plus we'll learn a lot in in the process.
“I wouldn't be where I'm at with the Python language today without this to book to kick start things.”
What will you learn?
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Python — This flexible language is the foundation of everything from data munging to web scraping to machine learning. You'll also learn about its key data library Pandas, the modeling and machine learning libraries statsmodels and scikit-learn, and how to do data visualizations with seaborn.
Web Scraping and APIs — Next time you run across a site with data you'd like to analyze you'll know how to grab data via its public API if it's available, or build a web scraper to get it yourself if it's not.
Machine Learning and Statistics — You'll learn the difference between a regression and a random forest, and will know when and how to build both.
Databases and SQL — Build your own database — whether it's for player statistics, to keep track of opponent tenancies, etc — and use SQL to get data in and out of it.
All in the context of fantasy football and designed so you can learn how to apply them to your own questions and do your own analysis.
About the author
Hi! My name is Nate and I'm a self-taught programmer and data scientist based in Milwaukee, WI.
A few years ago, I didn't know anything about Python, SQL, machine learning, web scraping or any of the other topics covered here.
So, I taught myself. It took a few years and I ran into a lot of dead ends along the way, but ultimately I figured it out. In this book, I distill everything I've learned to provide a step-by-step guide to get you up and running as quickly as possible.
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