Daily Fantasy Sports Excel & VBA Research Hacks For The Win

by Devon Miller

Overview

Do you want to improve your use of Excel and VBA during your Daily Fantasy Sports research? You may want a few Excel hacks to maneuver through all the stats and projections of your Fantasy Sport of your choice. This book belongs on your bookshelf. You will find several Excel formulas and VBA macros to help you format data in your spreadsheets. For some of you, this book is must read, because it contains the macro for an optimizer to select players based on tiers. The use of players and tiers is a new popular format on the Daily Fantasy Sports website such as DraftKings. The VBA macro is a hack to allow you to be more objective, saves time, and creates multiple Daily Fantasy Sports lineups at a push of a button

The Excel hack of all hacks will truly make you want to keep this book with you at all times especially when you plan to play Daily Fantasy Sports. The Excel hack or formula is the use of the Monte Carlo Simulation. Why would you use the Monte Carlo Simulation in your Daily Fantasy Sports research? If you want to save yourself money, then you really want to learn how Monte Carlo Simulation can help you accomplish it. It is a powerful Excel hack to allow you to trust or not trust the projections of players. This will indirectly save you money while playing in the variety of Daily Fantasy Sports contests.

The fact is not everyone going to conduct Daily Fantasy Sports research. You should not let Excel and VBA intimidate you. This book attempts to be as simplistic as possible when explaining concepts and codes. This book is not comprehensive guide for Excel or VBA but it going to help you get ahead of the competition who will choose to do little to no research. By using this as a building block, you will peak your interest to learn more. The use of Excel and VBA allows you do many things that will help you to build better Daily Fantasy Sports lineups. You can take advantage of these Excel hacks, and use VBA to take your research process to the next level.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940158825972
Publisher:	Devon Miller
Publication date:	10/12/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	361 KB

About the Author

Devon Miller, an avid sport’s fan since 12 years of age, and fantasy sports player for over three years. From the USS Spartanburg County LST 1192 to the floating city called an aircraft carrier, the USS Constellation CV 64, he proudly wore a sailor hat, sailed rough seas, stood the watch until o’dark thirty, and his ship was fired upon off the coast of Somalia. Devon was a U.S. Navy sailor for seven years, 1993-2000. Along the way of dodging a rocket-propelled grenade in the service to his country, he developed a passion for business and computer programming, but essentially, the U.S. Navy taught him, do whatever was necessary to get the job done.

Along the way of getting the job done, he picked up an EMBA to help his cause. He started a sports blog called the Sporty Mouth, www.d-sportymouth.com , to share his views regarding college and professional sports. When he finally found Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS), it was a passion culminated in trying to help everyone win.

He applied what he was taught while playing Daily Fantasy Sports and his experience working with Microsoft Excel and VBA to writing his first two books. The two books, Blueprint for a Winning Daily Fantasy Sports Football Optimizer and Blueprint for a Winning Daily Fantasy Sports Basketball Optimizer were written to help the DFS player create a tool to build multiple lineups and save time during research and drafting phase.

Blueprint for a Winning Daily Fantasy Sports Football Optimizer provides the foundation of building a basic DFS optimizer. Devon’s second book, Blueprint for a Winning Daily Fantasy Sports Basketball Optimizer, it helps a DFS player add more features to their optimizer, and it uses more complex code and formulas.

Devon stills believe you do whatever it takes to get the job done, and his writing will attempt to help the reader get the job done under most circumstances.