Creating a Daily Fantasy Sports Algorithm Using Quantitative Finance, Pt. 2: Building the Algorithm

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.


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