All Game Dates Scraper
In our previous post on data scraping, we examined how to filter NBA.com to a specific game date, and extract stats for that game date. That was a great first step, and we’re going to keep building on it. In this post,…
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Helper Functions for Calculating Fantasy Points
This is going to be one of our shorter blog posts, but if you’re into daily fantasy basketball betting, it’s a must read! One of the most basic but overlooked areas in building a fantasy points model is – how…
Scraping Potential Assists
In this post, we’re going to discuss how to scrape one of the most important features for building a successful NBA prop bets model. That feature is potential assists. And it’s specifically helpful for building an over/under assists model. First,…
Calculating Season Averages for NBA Betting Features
In this post, we’re going to dig into some feature engineering. At it’s core, any NBA betting model is a time series analysis problem. You’re trying to predict what a player will do tonight, given what he’s done in the…