A fun side-project where I run some simulations and do analysis for my fantasy football league.

This uses the espn_api Python library to gather data from ESPN's fantasy football site.

To get started with the project:

1. Clone the repository with git clone https://github.com/spkane31/ff-sims
2. Set up your python environment:

# navigate to the scripts directory (where all python files are kept)
cd scripts
# Create a python virtual environment
python3.10 -m venv venv
# Install libraries
venv/bin/python -m  pip install -r requirements.txt
# Run the scripts!
venv/bin/python data.py

This will write data to a history.json file. The history.json file acts as a cache, to re-fetch all data from ESPN simply delete the file.

• fetching data from ESPN
• writing data to file and a database provided by DATABASE_URL environment vairable

Formerly:

• draft analysis
• season simulations
• playoff predictions

NextJS app for displaying data and allowing user interaction.

Go script for managing database. gorm does the database management for me, would like to expand this portion to do the data scraping as well. Would require reverse engineering the espn_api library. I use a CockroachDB serverless instance for the Postgres instance. Running go run . will build out the database.