Optimizing Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineups: A Linear Programming Approach for Enhanced Accuracy

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dc.contributor.authorGrody, Max
dc.contributor.authorBansal, Sandeep
dc.contributor.authorAshqar, Huthaifa
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-08T15:09:12Z
dc.date.available2025-01-08T15:09:12Z
dc.date.issued2024-11-17
dc.description.abstractDaily fantasy baseball has shortened the life cycle of an entire fantasy season into a single day. As of today, it has become familiar with more than 10 million people around the world who participate in online fantasy. As daily fantasy continues to grow, the importance of selecting a winning lineup becomes more valuable. The purpose of this paper is to determine how accurate FanDuel current daily fantasy strategy of optimizing daily lineups are and utilize python and linear programming to build a lineup optimizer for daily fantasy sports with the goal of proposing a more accurate model to assist daily fantasy participants select a winning lineup.
dc.description.urihttp://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11012
dc.format.extent14 pages
dc.genrejournal articles
dc.genrepreprints
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2kflu-ck4w
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2411.11012
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/37252
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
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dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Data Science
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Student Collection
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International CC BY 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectMathematics - Optimization and Control
dc.subjectComputer Science - Numerical Analysis
dc.subjectMathematics - Numerical Analysis
dc.titleOptimizing Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineups: A Linear Programming Approach for Enhanced Accuracy
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dcterms.creatorhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6835-8338

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