frankieeder / fantasy_movie_league

An Object-Oriented version of the Knapsack Problem, fantasy_movie_league parses third-party box-office projections and computes the highest-earning Fantasy Movie League bracket for a given week.

CONTENTS OF THIS FILE

• Introduction
• Requirements
• Quick Start

INTRODUCTION

An object-oriented version of the knapsack problem, fantasy_movie_league parses third-party box-office projections and computes the highest-earning Fantasy Movie League (FML) bracket for a given week.

Fantasy Movie League rules can be found here: https://fantasymovieleague.com/howtoplay

Third-party box-office projections come from Fantasy Movie League Insider and Box Office Report (BOR): FML Insider: https://fantasymovieleague.com/news Box Office Report: http://www.boxofficereport.com/predictions/predictions.html

REQUIREMENTS

• Python 3.

QUICK START

In Terminal, run either all_weeks.py (which runs all sidecar files), or one of the sidecar files to compute the best bracket for the specific week to which that sidecar file corresponds.

To add and run a new week sidecar file, run new_week.py and input the necessary strings. These include:

• Year: A string representing the year that this quarter began
• Quarter: A string representing the quarter that this week is from
• Week: A string representing the week to calculate projections for
• Prices: The string created by highlighting and copying the entire price interface of Fantasy Movie League
• FML Projections: The string created by highlighting and copying all the name-price pairs listed on FML Insider
• BOR Projections: The string created by highlighting and copying the entire table of predictions posted on Box Office Report

This will also add the new week you make to all_weeks.py for later use.

If desired, you can use the interactive interpreter to further investigate possible earnings. Sidecar files are imported as modules in all_weeks.py, so to investigate the variables between weeks, simply run all_weeks.py in interactive mode and access the variables through the syntax "sidecar_file_name"."vairable_name".

All functions and classes are stored in fml.py.