louisrowan / dailyfantasy

Draft Kings daily fantasy baseball lineup optimizer

dailyFantasy

Draft Kings daily fantasy baseball lineup optimizer

Steps

1. Update date on constants.js to desired date in the format MM-DD such as 06-02 for June 2.
2. Optional - Update team stats by running node getTeamBattingStats.js
3. npm run start to fetch days games, lineups, current player stats
4. Go to draftkings.com, open desired contest, export csv of players, move to './fixtures' and rename as 'salaries_(date)' (matching date from step 1)
5. Run npm run generate to generate optimal lineup, or npm run team to generate team-stacked lineup with 5 batters from same team
6. Enter lineup on draftkings and collect profits

Note: This program grabs the actual lineups for each game, which are not available until < 3 hours from first pitch. Therefore, do not grab data until lineups are set here