In this talk we consider what makes a successful Fantasy Premier League manager through a combination of data science, networks, and statistical analysis.
We'll run through some of the advantages of webscrpaing ones own data alongside some examples using the R language to scrape from a variety of data sources.
Fantasy Premier League (https://fantasy.premierleague.com) is one of the worlds most popular online fantasy sports games with ~7 million players. During the 2018-19 season we undertook a large data scraping exercise to obtain data describing the …