Topic
Limit the Guesswork in Fantasy Baseball by Using Python for Data Analysis
By: Nicholas Marey
Date: July 11, 2019, 6 p.m.
Daily fantasy sports has become a booming industry. One leader in the space is Fanduel who after raising $275 million in their series E funding, brought their valuation to over $1 billion. As the popularity of daily fantasy sports has taken off, critics have argued that success is the result of luck; yet the consistent success of a select group of players would suggest that success can be driven by skill. This talk, will go over how one could use Python to level the playing field.