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3243. Optimisation for the Fantasy Football League
Invited abstract in session TA-16: Sports scheduling and optimization, stream OR in Sports.
Tuesday, 8:30-10:00Room: 19 (building: 116)
Authors (first author is the speaker)
| 1. | John Wilson
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| Management Science, Ivey Business School | |
| 2. | Mehmet Begen
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| Ivey Business School, Western University | |
| 3. | Vineet Yagnik
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| Ivey Business School |
Abstract
Fantasy Premier League is a “play along” fantasy game that follows the real-world events of Premier League games. It allows Premier League fans to compete against each other in their knowledge of players and teams. Players can set their own teams of players in the Premier League, who then earn points through their real-world performance in the Premier League. There is a substantial body of research on American Football Fantasy Leagues. However, possibly during to the low scoring nature of soccer as compared to American football, the Fantasy Premier League has not drawn as much attention. We show how to incorporate publicly available information into frequentist and Bayesian statistical models that will be used in optimization model to select teams for each week.
Keywords
- OR in Sports
- Analytics and Data Science
Status: accepted
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