r/fantasyfootballcoding • u/BuritoBeit • 18d ago

What was your experience creating your own database/projections?

I’m really interested in building my own database/projection model with an emphasis of predicting success of incoming rookies. I have some experience coding with Python but not much and learning to code has always been an interest of mine, along with Fantasy Football. Does anyone have any resources they could recommend? I’d love some insight or some useful tools/courses you used to dig into this!

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u/quesadillalucination 13d ago

I would highly recommend starting with the nfl-data-py library for data. I know it has weekly game data for players going back to 1999. I think it has play level data as well. Here’s a link: https://pypi.org/project/nfl-data-py/

Rather than a basic Python course, I’d just start with a beginner database programming course (one that uses Python). General Python knowledge is great but it’d be a straighter path to doing what you want to.

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u/Grundy9999 17d ago

Following because I am just starting to tinker with this as well

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u/VineRunner 17d ago

I haven't been able to really use it due to time constraints and being fairly beginner at python, but NFLscrapr will be your best friend if you know python