Draft Kings Optimization

This analysis will walk through how to optimize your fantasy football team for daily fantasy or auction draft leagues. The PuLP python package is used for the creating and solving the linear program. Optimizing a team based off of the players prior average points per week results in a team that will score above average week to week, but to be succesful in the daily fantasy environment it is better to chose players that are going to have abnormally high perofrmance in the specific week, instead of good week to week performance.