Predict NFL Players Points for Fantasy Football
For my Honors Thesis, I decided to create an Artificial Intelligence Project to predict Fantasy NFL Football Points of players and team's defense. I created a Tensorflow Keras AI Regression model and created a Flask API that holds the AI model, and a Django Try-It Page for the user to use the model. These services are hosted on ASU's AWS service. In my Flask API, it actively gathers data from Pro-Football-Reference, then calculates the fantasy points. Let’s say the current year is 2022, then the model analyzes each player and trains on all data from available from 2000 to 2020 data, tests the data on 2021 data, and predicts for 2022 year. The Django Website asks the user to input the current year, then the user clicks the submit button runs the AI model, and the process explained earlier. Next, the user enters the player's name for the point prediction and the website predicts the last 5 rows with 4 being the previous fantasy points and the 5th row being the prediction.
- Author (aut): Panikulam, Caleb
- Thesis director: De Luca, Gennaro
- Committee member: Chen, Yinong
- Contributor (ctb): Barrett, The Honors College
- Contributor (ctb): School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
- Contributor (ctb): Computer Science and Engineering Program