Project Page

Projects include

  1. This website
    1. This is running off of my personal unix server
    2. I made this site so I could track the NFL and NCAAM bets and see how they were performing
    3. WordPress is a really easy application to make a website. I am no developer, I couldn’t have done this without WP
  2. NFL Picks
    1. I am predicting the margin for an NFL game, then using the prediction to make bets (both moneyline and against the spread)
    2. The prediction is made from a combination of linear and logarithmic modelling
    3. I utilized an NFL database to get games and web scraping to get current spreads and stats
    4. I have an automated code that posts the results and upcoming picks each week
    5. The page is updated during games to show the status of the bets
  3. NCAAB Picks
    1. I am predicting the margin for NCAAM games, then using the prediction to make bets (both moneyline and against the spread)
    2. The prediction is made from a KNN model, which compares new games to similar past games and averages the outcomes of the similar games
    3. I created a database of March Madness games, stats about the teams from multiple websites, and the results of those games
    4. The hardest part of this process was aligning school names from different data sources
  4. NCAA TweetBot
    1. This Twitter bot tweets the schedule of ranked matchups, as well as 15 minute reminders before game time
    2. I webscrape ESPN to identify the upcoming NCAAF and NCAAMB games where both teams are ranked
    3. I made a Twitter account to tweet these matchups out at 11 AM EST that day
    4. In your Twitter app, you can set notifications for when this account tweets anything
  5. MLB TweetBot
    1. This Twitter bot tweets when several key baseball plays happen
    2. I really enjoy when pitchers get hits, and then I allowed scope creep to take over
    3. I used a module that gets real time MLB stats
    4. I tweet out real time events, as well as a weekly summary

 

Decommissioned projects:

  1. March Madness Predictor
    1. The more college basketball I watch, the worse my brackets are
    2. My brackets were terrible, so I am no longer making them
    3. The NCAAB Picks was born from the ashes of this project