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Showdev: Fantasy Football Draft Analysis

Evan Oman — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 18:20:39 +0000

Based on Ben's post about Fantasy Football I decided I would share a draft analysis I have been running for the last few years for my main Fantasy Football league.

Since 2016 we have been doing live, in-person drafts with no cheat-sheets. This makes things more interesting and forces everyone to be more invested in the league. Plus it is an excuse to see each other and enjoy food + drinks (this year we all met at a friend's place in Chicago).

Since we are all very competitive, I decided to run an analysis to see who had the best draft relative to the ESPN rankings. While each ranking is debatable, consistently going against this ranking probably means that you aren't drafting very well.

So I wrangled the draft data and ESPN rankings into a CSV format and used R to analyze the data. R has some really cool tools like rmarkdown and knitr for making these kind of reports. I combined these tools with all R's data manipulation tools and unparalleled ggplot2 for data visualization. I generated the HTML using knitr locally and then hosted it using GitHub Pages

Anyway, here are the interest parts:

Analysis Webpage
My favorite chart:

Code:

EvanOman / FantasyFootball2019

FantasyFootball2019

This repo contains some R analysis of my Fantasy Football League for the 2019 Season.

View on GitHub

Tips for Introducing Version Control / Git for Non Software Engineers

Evan Oman — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 04:46:50 +0000

I work at an engineering company that does a mix of software development (done by software engineers) and research/prototyping work (done by non software engineers -- we call them systems engineers). It is pretty common for these two groups to interact as some prototypes turn into deliverable systems.

Most of our software engineers use Git backed by a local Gitlab server.

However most code produced by systems engineers (Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics backgrounds) is not version controlled which causes a lot of headaches for me (and probably them too, even if they don't realize it).

I have taken it on myself to put together an introduction to version control with Git during an upcoming lunch and learn session.

My question is how do I best motivate the concept of version control for these non software engineers? What are the most obvious advantages that would convince them that learning Git is worthwhile when working with code collaboratively?

Hi, I'm Evan Oman

Evan Oman — Wed, 24 May 2017 21:03:12 +0000

I have been coding for 7 years.

You can find me on GitHub as EvanOman

I live in the Minneapolis, MN area.

I work for Black River Systems

I mostly program in these languages: Java, Scala, Matlab, Python.

I am currently learning more about Data Science, Machine Learning, Functional Programming.

Nice to meet you.