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Dfl-Opt : A Daily Fantasy Lineup Optimizer, Francis Aurori

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

[Background] Daily fantasy sports (DFS) are a variety of fantasy sports where contests take place in a matter of days or hours rather than over a whole season. A disparity exists between skilled professionals and casual participants in the creation of line-ups (i.e. teams) w.r.t their chances of winning in these contests. The purpose of the current project was to create a user-friendly, open source platform (named DFL-Opt) for participants of all skill levels to utilize in the creation of DFS line-ups. In addition, efficacy of the DFL-Opt platform was determined by playing the lineups generated by the DFL-Opt tool …