Dusty Turner - "Win" Your Fantasy Football Auction Draft with Integer Programming and R
"Win" Your Fantasy Football Auction Draft with Integer Programming and R by Dusty Turner
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Abstract: Fantasy football is a widely enjoyed activity where you compete against friends, colleagues, or strangers, to see who's real life football players outperform each other from week to week. While player performance is largely random, you can improve your chances of winning with deft analysis. In particular, the initial draft at the beginning of the season can get your fantasy football team started on the right track. In this presentation, Dusty will show how you can use the Tidyverse, web scraping, integer programming, and Shiny to start your fantasy football season off right.
Bio: Major Dusty Turner is an Operations Research Systems Analyst for the United States Army. He most recently served as a Data Scientist for the Center for Army Analysis in Fort Belvoir, VA. He is currently a Statistical Science PhD student at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. After completion of the program, he will serve on the faculty at the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY.
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Presented at the 2022 Government & Public Sector R Conference (December 1, 2022)