Jonathon Pringle Undergraduate Dissertation 2014/15

Automated Fantasy Football League Player

Supervised by P.McMinn

Abstract

The aim of this project is to create a computer program that acts as the manager of a fantasy football team. The program will be responsible for data collection and processing this data so it can select the best squad possible to compete in a fantasy football league. The program will be completely independent without any user input when making decisions. The program will employ a rule-based approach looking at certain aspects of a player's data and using this to forecast player's scores. It will then use a custom algorithm to pick the best team to compete in a fantasy football league.