Creating a Daily Fantasy Sports Algorithm Using Quantitative Finance, Pt. 1: Intro to DFS

In the first part of this three-part series, Jamie McCorriston, an analyst at Quantopian, looks at some of the analogous concepts between Quantitative Finance and Daily Fantasy Sports. He goes over how constructing a portfolio and constructing a Daily Fantasy Sports Team are similar and how you can apply the same concepts to both.

In the next two parts of this video series, Jamie shows the practical application of this concept by walking you through the process of creating a Daily Fantasy Sports Team selection algorithm using tools that are available for free on Quantopian.

If you would like to learn more about creating algorithms on Quantopian, Quantopian provides free educational resources that can help you get started. Access these resources, as well as tools that can help you create your own models, at http://bit.ly/2MVNHXc.

You can find the notebook for this series at https://github.com/quantopian/researc....

The data for this series was collected by Ana Ruelas for use in this fantasy sports algorithm notebook.

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