Why R? Webinars "What makes a good fantasy football manager?" with Joey O'Brien

• channel: youtube.com/c/WhyRFoundationVideos
• date: every Thursday 7:00 pm (Irish Time)
• format: one 45 minutes long stream + 10 minutes for Q&A
• MC: Lais Carvalho & Guests
• comments: ask questions on YouTube live chat
• join Why R? Slack whyr.pl/slack/
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/why-r
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/whyrconf/

Description:

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 manager's selections over the year, along with a number of other statistics on the actual footballers upon which the game is based.

In this talk we will firstly introduce our dataset before proceeding to discuss the dynamics and actions of the game's managers via a number of statistical tools and visualizations obtained through R and the tidyverse, with the hope of determining whether the top (fantasy) mangers earn their title through certain skills and if so what skills?

Sponsors

The event will be sponsored by Jumping Rivers.
Jumping Rivers is an analytics company whose passion is data and machine learning.
https://www.jumpingrivers.com/​
twitter: twitter.com/jumping_uk