Optimizing Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineups: A Linear Programming Approach for Enhanced Accuracy

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Autori principali: Grody, Max, Bansal, Sandeep, Ashqar, Huthaifa I.
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Grody, Max
Bansal, Sandeep
Ashqar, Huthaifa I.
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Bansal, Sandeep
Ashqar, Huthaifa I.
contents Daily fantasy baseball has shortened the life cycle of an entire fantasy season into a single day. As of today, it has become familiar with more than 10 million people around the world who participate in online fantasy. As daily fantasy continues to grow, the importance of selecting a winning lineup becomes more valuable. The purpose of this paper is to determine how accurate FanDuel current daily fantasy strategy of optimizing daily lineups are and utilize python and linear programming to build a lineup optimizer for daily fantasy sports with the goal of proposing a more accurate model to assist daily fantasy participants select a winning lineup.
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spellingShingle Optimizing Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineups: A Linear Programming Approach for Enhanced Accuracy
Grody, Max
Bansal, Sandeep
Ashqar, Huthaifa I.
Numerical Analysis
Optimization and Control
Daily fantasy baseball has shortened the life cycle of an entire fantasy season into a single day. As of today, it has become familiar with more than 10 million people around the world who participate in online fantasy. As daily fantasy continues to grow, the importance of selecting a winning lineup becomes more valuable. The purpose of this paper is to determine how accurate FanDuel current daily fantasy strategy of optimizing daily lineups are and utilize python and linear programming to build a lineup optimizer for daily fantasy sports with the goal of proposing a more accurate model to assist daily fantasy participants select a winning lineup.
title Optimizing Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineups: A Linear Programming Approach for Enhanced Accuracy
topic Numerical Analysis
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11012