Learn to Code with Fantasy Football - Python for 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

•

230 page ebook

(

table of contents

)

•

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

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u/Nick58

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 own machine learning models. You'll also learn how to make plots like these:

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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 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

Nathan Braun

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?

Yep! Just go to

fantasycoding.com/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.