Creating a Daily Fantasy Sports Algorithm Using Quantitative Finance, Pt. 2: Building the Algorithm
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 Published On Jun 27, 2019

In the next part of this three-part series, Jamie McCorriston, an analyst at Quantopian, continues to look at some of the analogous concepts between Quantitative Finance and Daily Fantasy Sports. He walks through the process of creating an algorithm that picks a Daily Fantasy Sports team. Jamie goes over some of the various tools that are available for use on Quantopian, and how these tools can be used to create a Daily Fantasy Sports algorithm.

In the last part of this video series, Jamie shows the final steps of creating the Daily Fantasy Sports algorithm and how it works.

The first part of this video series can be found here    • Creating a Daily Fantasy Sports Algor...  .

To learn more about creating algorithms on Quantopian, check out Quantopian’s 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 www.quantopian.com.

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

The data for this series was collected by Ana Ruelas.

Link to the Research Tutorial: https://www.quantopian.com/lectures/i...
Link to the Alphalens Tutorial: https://www.quantopian.com/tutorials/...

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