A Python program for creating weekly power rankings for ESPN Fantasy Football leagues. Also includes source code for the ESPN Fantasy Explorer, an interactive visualization tool for public fantasy football leagues. NOTE: Website currently unavailable due to ESPN Fantasy Football platform overhaul.
In addition to the season-long, unweighted "Summary" tab which keeps track of the expected wins of each team, it would be nice to have a separate "Power Rankings" tab which applies some weighting to the expected wins of each team.
The simplest form could be applying some weighted multiplier which favors a team's recent performance and considers earlier weeks less heavily. Without doing any research, this could be some linear scale or a bell-curve like weighting.
A more advanced version might consider when teams have key players on bye, or more heavily weight a team's performance after a trade (i.e. completely different roster than earlier in season).
In addition to the season-long, unweighted "Summary" tab which keeps track of the expected wins of each team, it would be nice to have a separate "Power Rankings" tab which applies some weighting to the expected wins of each team.
The simplest form could be applying some weighted multiplier which favors a team's recent performance and considers earlier weeks less heavily. Without doing any research, this could be some linear scale or a bell-curve like weighting.
A more advanced version might consider when teams have key players on bye, or more heavily weight a team's performance after a trade (i.e. completely different roster than earlier in season).