15 -- Moneyball -- Tyler Kotkin

[TylerKotkin]

• [x] Blank slate
  • [x] Create a GitHub repo called moneyball
  • [x] Copy all the files from this repo into it
  • [x] Set up your requirements/virtual environment
  • [x] Create a data folder and put the baseball statistics data into it
• [x] Normal mode
  • [x] Join together the relevant tables into DataFrame object(s)
  • [x] Calculate OBP of players and discard outliers
  • [x] Given a specific year, put together a 9-player roster that maximizes the OBP of the players while minimizing their salary
  • [x] Ensure that you have a complete roster with players who played at each position and that you aren't planning on using clones of players
• [ ] Hard mode
  • [ ] Adjust player salaries for inflation
  • [ ] Build an all-star moneyball dream team using the adjusted salaries

[TylerKotkin]

https://github.com/TylerKotkin/moneyball

[powder-river]

@TylerKotkin good code, very readable, for sanities sake consider using .head() when you're checking out your data frame