Week 6 optimizations for the DraftKings main slate
Week 5 optimizations are here, with some fancy color added to previously boring graphs!
We are BACK with week four optimized lineups!
With fantasy football, projections are everywhere. There are countless experts and experts trying to hawk picks for money, internet fame, or both. However, most sites don’t evaluate their projections on a regular basis, or keep historical projections up for prospective customers to evaluate. Thats where I come in.
Are you ready for some footbaaaalll?! Its that time of the year, the NFL is back! Like many others, part of my enjoyment of football season is through fantasy football, specifically daily fantasy (like DraftKings or Fanduel is you re unfamiliar). Obviously, I want to apply my analytic skillset to give me an edge, and there’s lot of great packages in R that make that easier to do.
Tf-idf can be an interesting way to extract keywords from text. In this post I use tidytext’s implementation to extract keywords from ETF descriptions.
How can you predict that a movie will do well? Movie studios can only produce so many at a time, and, like any business, they want to maximize their investment at every turn. Many filmmakers put their entire life into a film, hoping that a studio will make a bet on it. One such example is the Reign of Judges Movie that’s currently filming a concept short, with the hopes of being picked up for a full feature.
