Learn Coding + Data Science Fundamentals with Fantasy Football
Python. Web Scraping. Databases. SQL. Statistics. Machine Learning. APIs.
What is the most important thing in learning to code?
It's finding a project you're excited about.
What You Get
•
23
example
Python scripts
•
3 datasets
•
more than
100 end of chapter exercises with full solutions
•
more than
300 Anki flash cards
to help you remember what you've read
New! Follow up to LTCWFF,
Intermediate Coding with Fantasy Football: A Project Based Approach
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Learn How to Do Your Own Fantasy Analysis in Python
You'll learn — step by step and applied to fantasy football — how to build your
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Go beyond Excel with this book from the creator of Fantasy Math
This book is designed to take someone interested in fantasy football analytics
— but who doesn't have much formal coding or advanced math background — from
beginner to being comfortable with Python, databases, web scraping and
modeling!
What will you learn?
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 & 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 & Statistics
— You'll learn the difference between a
regression and a random forest, and will know when and how to build both.
Databases & 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.
I'm the founder of
fantasymath.com
, which offers
weekly, in-season fantasy football advice and is the only place you can find
correlated (not sure what this means? — we'll cover it in the book)
projections.
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. I ran into a lot of dead ends along the way, but
ultimately figured it out. In this book, I distill everything I've learned to
provide a step-by-step guide to doing fantasy football analytics and get you up
and running as quickly as possible.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I give (or get) the book as a gift?
Once you pay, I'll send a link good for one download of the book (including
files and lifetime updates — it'll be just as if your giftee bought it
themselves) that you can give at your convenience.
I set this up because — while Gumroad (the site I use for distribution) does
allow for products to be
given as
gifts
,
it does not let you give them at your convience. Instead it emails your
giftee with the book as soon as you buy it.
Are updates to the book included? How do I get them?
Yes. Lifetime updates are included. To get them you need to make/login to your
Gumroad account. Go to
gumroad.com
and click 'Login' in
the top right corner.
An overlay will pop up that looks like this:
If this is your first time revisiting Gumroad since you bought the book,
you'll probably need to click 'create an account' in the bottom middle
(circled in red).
Click it, making sure you
use the same email
you used when you bought the
book.
Once you do that, you should see Learn to Code with Fantasy Football in your
library and be able to redownload the latest files.
Is there a paper version?
Not at the moment, though it may happen someday. There are a few reasons
I went with the electronic format.
Most importantly, the book is meant to be coded along with. Ideally you have
the book up on one screen (or part of a screen) and Python and your example
files up on another. You'll get way more out of it this way than you would
just reading through it.
Also, an electronic version is easier to keep current. All readers get
lifetime updates and an electronic version means I can update and push new
versions of the book out quickly.