Comments on: Telegraph Fantasy Football Team Picker

By: Chris Jones (Ex QQ bloke!)

Chris Jones (Ex QQ bloke!) — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:23:51 +0000

Intersested to see this. I did a very similar Matlab program a few years back (based on the Simplex Method) and stuck the results on the qq newsgroups for a while. After a few months I gave up because I found I could get a better score without it. The issue is that (as you say) it’s only valid as the volume of data increases — at the start of the season the ‘good value’ players from the previous season (e.g. Hernandez, Bale, and Carroll) all have their prices bumped up — the trick to winning the game is to find this years undervalued star, but the code can take too long to spot mathematically what is obvious by watching the matches.

By: Ian

Ian — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 15:16:28 +0000

My mistake, it was actually I memory usage issue on my server that was preventing the script running properly. This has been resolved, and the current optimum team is now being displayed again.

By: Ian

Ian — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:09:16 +0000

The location and format of the data have changed this year, so I need to update the script to handle it. I’m still hoping to have it ready for the start of the season!

By: chris

chris — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 09:57:00 +0000

Are you putting up a new lineup for this year?

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