Evaluating Whether Expert Rankings On Fantasy Basketball Players Are Accurate

Abstract

The major goal of this project was to compare expert rankings on fantasy basketball players with actual fantasy results at the end of the season. This might be an interesting problem because millions of people play fantasy sports and spend billions of dollars a year. First of all, we might expect that expert rankings on basketball players can correctly predict the final actual results. To answer this question, we collected data from online fantasy sports websites and compared expert rankings with actual results. We performed a correlation test to measure the relationship between expert rankings and final results. This project could be useful for people to help draft the best fantasy basketball team.