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Analysis of Serie A Fantasy Football data

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Fantasy Football Data Analysis

A blog post was created to explain the details of this project. English version available here, Italian here.

Overview

The goal of this project is to analyze data related to Serie A Fantasy Football (aka Fantacalcio) from past years and use the results to predict the best players for the next football season.
The code is contained in a Jupyter Notebook file, which can be used to import data, visualize the graphs and get results of the analysis.

Visualizations

The following are some of the results obtained by analyzing the data.

Trends

Best Trends
Worst Trends

Deltas

Best Deltas
Worst Deltas

Mean Scores

Best Mean scores
Best Mean scores by role
Worst Mean scores

Interactive Calculator

The final part of the code includes an interactive calculator which can be used to predict players who will have the best performance next season.

Interactive Calculator

The weights are used to calculate an approximate score for next season. The formula is the following: