VERY MUCH WORK IN PROGRESS
Fantasy Football Player Points Prediction Model
Prediction model for players fantasy points in a given weak
Comparison of Linear Regression vs Neural Network, forward tested on ESPN projections(not included in validation testing)
Works for Position players, excludes D/ST and K
Data from 2015/16-2025/26
- 2015/2016 only used as backward fill for 2016/17
- NGS stats only exists from 2016/17
- 2016/17 - 2024/25 used for training
- 2025/26 used as out of sample validation data
Data from nflreadpy which pulls from nflverse
Run data --> clean --> features -->
Features creation depends on filter creation's sorting
- Ensure that features.createfilters() is ran before features.createfeatures()