Publications by Part Time Analyst

FPL Point Projection in R – Part 2

22.04.2021

Hello, welcome to part 2 of the series building a model to predict fantasy premier league points. If you missed the first part which i did some initial EDA go check it out here Building a Model in R to Predict FPL Points As I identified before the first part of this they key parts of the model are predicting how many goals might be in the match...

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F1 Drivers Rated – Version 2

11.05.2021

Hello, so a year and a half a go I created a new metric for measuring F1 drivers performance based around there performance in the race and the expected the performance in the race see blog here F1 Drivers Rated Since then my laptop BSOD’ed and me being useless I never committed the code to GitHub and therefore it was lost. I was facing rewrit...

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FPL – Point Project Part 3

08.06.2021

Hello, this is part 3 of building a model to project the points a player might score in a given game week. If you have not read part 1 or 2 links below Part 1 – https://theparttimeanalyst.com/2021/03/09/building-a-model-in-r-to-predict-fpl-points/ Part 2 – https://theparttimeanalyst.com/2021/04/22/fpl-point-projection-in-r-part-2/ Now that t...

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Sliced – New York Air BnB

03.08.2021

Hello, welcome to todays blog which I am going to go through my attmept at sliced. If you never hear of sliced its competitive data science which you have 2 hours to create a machine learning model. Catch the show here on tuesdays late a night for us Europeans https://www.twitch.tv/nickwan_datasci One of the recent rounds used data on new York A...

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F1 Strategy Analysis

29.09.2021

I was recently browsing reddit and found this AMA from a former mercedes strategy engineer r/F1Technical – Industry Insights (Former Race Strategist at Mercedes) from formula1 The most surprising thing was that most of the race strategy was calculated using VBA in excel. This isn’t some start up outfit this is the mighty Mercedes ...

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Rating Each Drivers 2021 Season – 20 – 11

10.01.2022

Hello and happy new year. Hope you have a nice cup of Yorkshire tea ready to read this we are going to review each driver’s performance in the 2021 season. I’m going to do this using my expected position metric detailed here theparttimeanalyst.com/2021/05/11/f1-drivers-rated-version-2/ The drivers are ranked by the % of races they had a posit...

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Rating Each Drivers 2021 Season – 10 – 1

25.01.2022

Hello, welcome to the second part of this look at F1 Drivers performance in 2021 and this time we look at the top 10 so get your cup of Yorkshire tea at the ready! =9 Daniel Ricciardo 50% As shown by the graph of his performances from race to race Ricciardo was either very good or very bad. There was never a period where he got a good run of re...

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