Projecting a Quarterback's Fantasy Football Point Output for Daily Fantasy Sports using Statistical Models
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Projecting a Quarterback's Fantasy Football Point Output for Daily Fantasy Sports using Statistical Models
In the new age of daily fantasy sports (DFS), fantasy football has become an enormous revenue generator for DFS sites, such as DraftKings and FanDuel. Both companies are valued over $1 billion. However, previous analysis done by popular DFS site Rotogrinders, has shown that only the top players are consistently winning, the top 10 players much more frequently than the remaining 20,000 players. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Computer Applications
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0975-8887
DOI: 10.5120/ijca2017913614