Earlier today there was a issue with Amazon’s promo code system that caused Amazon Echo’s to be free for Prime customers. Amazon Echo Dot for FREE!!!!! Go all the way to checkout to see a $50 Audible credit applied – obviously price errorhttps://t.co/ap18baZWJy pic.twitter.com/qKBM3lpX43 — IGN Deals (@IGNDeals) August 18, 2017 Like we did with… Read More Automated Amazon Purchasing
Earlier in the month, I posted a picture on social media comparing fantasy football team points compared with their draft position. Would you believe 4th pick is the worst spot in a fantasy football draft? Early data I’m acquiring is painting that picture #fantasyfootball pic.twitter.com/z8z7Zebgiv — Person (@ergosum_person) July 24, 2017 I thought I found… Read More A Quick Look into Fantasy Football Team Stats
There used to be working code out there to scrape sites such as Draft Kings. At least, back before Draft Kings changed it’s terms of use to specifically forbid automated scraping of it’s content. Here, I’m sharing how you can automatically download contest data from Draft Kings. How to do it Draft Kings protects it’s… Read More Scraping Draft Kings Contests
I think I was a bit too ambitious last month. I was hoping to grow from 374 pageviews in June to 1500 in July and for one of my posts to go viral on dataisbeautiful. The article about the MLB ended up doing pretty terrible on dataisbeautiful. On the brighter side of things, cross posting… Read More July Monthly Reflection
Every fantasy football manager wants to know what rookie will lead the league in scoring. Is the SEC always over hyped? Does a wide receiver with a fast forty in the NFL combine mean anything? As you’ll see, being the best in an event doesn’t mean much. Looking at the NFL Combine Data I’ve scraped… Read More The NFL Combine’s Impact on Rookie Fantasy Performance
Sports betting. For some it’s a great way to have fun but, for the professional “sharks”, it’s a way to make a living. I’ve been betting to mixed-success for 3 years now and want to share some resources so you can get started and learn from my mistakes. My worst mistake was losing when I… Read More The Guide to Sports Betting Online
Cookbooks The Food Lab — Winner of the 2016 James Beard Award. An absolute must have for home cooks I’ll say this again and again, The Food Lab is by far the greatest cookbook, and book, that I have ever purchased. 800+ pages of teaching that goes beyond your typical cookbook’s basic list of hit-or-miss… Read More Book Reviews
This guide is to help you understand where to find data on sports, especially free sports data. Most of it requires coding so I’m working on creating a data scraping guide too. To skip all this work, sign up at Sports Data Direct and let them deal with getting the data for you. MLB Data The MLB… Read More The Guide to Sports Data
It’s so odd how basic most recipes are. I’m not talking about the quality of the food but how hard they are to follow for home cooks. How Most Recipes Look Most recipes show ingredients in a haphazard list and list essential tools in the middle of a paragraph. When this happens you absolutely have… Read More Improve Your Cooking Know How with Better Ways to Show Recipes
With the all star break upon us, I wanted to see how team records at the all star break compare to full season performance. The Chicago Cubs sit below .500 with a 43-45 record (.489) and as a White Sox Fan I get giddy at the prospect of them not doing well again. Last season… Read More Are the Cubs Bad Again? Visualizing MLB Team Records at the All Star Break
