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How about actual hacking? Can a programmer write a script to automate or enhance their Fantasy Football? Like algorithmic stock trading.
by Segmentation 13y ago
How about actual hacking?
Can a programmer write a script to automate or enhance their Fantasy Football? Like algorithmic stock trading.
- swanson 13y agoThe biggest aspect of Fantasy Football is the draft - where you select your players before the start of the season. So the area where you could apply some actual hacking is the projection/simulation of player performance to come up with your own rankings. Hopefully, this could allow you to pick undervalued players - so similar to predicting stocks. Basically you can treat it as a statistical modeling exercise and go from there. There is no realtime aspect to fantasy sports, you are usually setting a roster weekly, waiting for the games to be played for the week, and then seeing the results. So something like high frequency trading doesn't really apply.
- keithxm23 13y agoThere's a brilliant technical paper written on this subject: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/340382/ http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/340382/ The authors' (completely algorithmically managed) team managed to get a rank of ~25000 when competing against 2.5Million human players. Pretty damn good if you ask me. This paper is about Fantasy Soccer though. However the same rules apply to Fantasy Football too.