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Motivation: Building a real-world application to showcase my data analysis skills after completion of the Applied Data Science Specialization on Coursera. I have been watching football since childhood and playing the Fantasy Premier League since 5 years. I thought of mixing my passions for data and football and improve my standings in the Fantasy Premier League.
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Challenge: Analyzing and recognizing the appropriate features that can provide the best prediction with regards to the team, and deploying the application without hassles.
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Accomplishment: The application has been deployed on Heroku and the team that was entered into the competition on the basis of the results obtained from this application finished in the top 2% of players out of a total of 8 million.
- Python 3
- pandas
- matplotlib
- streamlit
You can access and use the application here
An article covering the use of data analysis in fantasy contests with this application as the case study can be found on Medium