README.md

In andrewl776/FPLdata: Read in Fantasy Premier League Data

FPLdata

Introduction

This data contains a large variety of information on players and their current attributes on Fantasy Premier League https://fantasy.premierleague.com/. In particular, it contains a next_gw_points (next gameweek points) value for each player given their attributes in the current week. Rows represent player-gameweeks, i.e. for each player there is a row for each gameweek. This makes the data suitable for modelling a player's next gameweek points, given attributes such as form, total points, and cost at the current gameweek.

This data, therefore, is in the ideal format to create Fantasy Premier League bots (for example that use an ML algorithm and a linear programming solver) to return the best possible team to pick for each gameweek (and therefore the transfers to make), thereby fully automating the decision making process in Fantasy Premier League. This single-function package simply supplies the required data for such a task.

The data is read in from a daily-updating repository (fplmodels), and so you will require an internet connection. This ensures that the latest dataset is always obtained, without users needing to install updates to the package.

Installation

• To install the latest version from GitHub, run:

devtools::install_github("andrewl776/FPLdata")

• A near-latest version of {FPLdata} can be installed from CRAN by running:

install.packages("FPLdata")

Getting the data

• The package can be loaded via:

library(FPLdata)

• Finally, the latest data can be retrieved by calling the only function in the package:

fpl_data <- FPLdata()
fpl_data

## # A tibble: 6,981 × 71
##    web_name gameweek event_points next_gw_points total_points chance_of_playing…
##    <chr>       <dbl>        <dbl>          <dbl>        <dbl>              <dbl>
##  1 Leno            1            1              0            1                 NA
##  2 Leno            6            0              0            4                 NA
##  3 Leno           10            0              0            4                 NA
##  4 Leno           11            0              0            4                 NA
##  5 Leno           12            0              0            4                 NA
##  6 Leno           14            0              0            4                 NA
##  7 Leno           15            0              0            4                 75
##  8 Leno           17            0              0            4                 75
##  9 Leno           18            0              0            4                100
## 10 Leno           20            0              0            4                100
## # … with 6,971 more rows, and 65 more variables:
## #   chance_of_playing_this_round <dbl>, code <dbl>, cost_change_event <dbl>,
## #   cost_change_event_fall <dbl>, cost_change_start <dbl>,
## #   cost_change_start_fall <dbl>, dreamteam_count <dbl>, element_type <dbl>,
## #   ep_next <dbl>, ep_this <dbl>, first_name <chr>, form <dbl>,
## #   player_id <dbl>, in_dreamteam <lgl>, news <chr>, news_added <dttm>,
## #   now_cost <dbl>, photo <chr>, points_per_game <dbl>, second_name <chr>, …

andrewl776/FPLdata documentation built on May 31, 2022, 12:40 p.m.