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Predictive Analytics For Fantasy Football: Predicting Player Performance Across The Nfl, Jack W. Porter
Predictive Analytics For Fantasy Football: Predicting Player Performance Across The Nfl, Jack W. Porter
Honors Theses and Capstones
The goal of this research is to develop a quantitative method of ranking and listing players in terms of performance. These rankings can then be used to evaluate players prior to and during a fantasy football draft. To produce these rankings, we develop a methodology for forecasting the performance of each individual player (on different metrics) for the upcoming season (16 games) and use these forecasts to estimate player fantasy football scores for the 2018 season.
More specifically, this work answers the following:
- In what order should players be drafted in a 2018 fantasy football draft and why?
- Which players …