Okay, so, I’ve been messing around with this Watson thing, trying to figure out if it’s any good for fantasy football. I started by gathering a bunch of info about him, you know, the usual stats and stuff from last year and what some websites think he’ll do this year.
Then, I got this wild idea to build a model. Not like a super fancy one, but something that could maybe, just maybe, predict if Watson would have a good game or not. I fed it all the data I could find, and let it crunch the numbers. It was kinda like teaching a dog a new trick, except this dog was made of code.
I played around with some deep learning stuff too. It’s like, these layers of, um, thinking machines, kind of. I think I used, like, 90 of them? It was a lot. Anyway, the goal was to see if these layers could learn to tell when Watson was gonna boom.
I ran a bunch of tests, asking it questions about football and Watson. I gotta say, this model thing actually did pretty good. It got the answers right most of the time. I mean, like, 97% or something crazy like that. It wasn’t perfect, but it was way better than just guessing.
I also looked at some real-game examples. Like, in Week 3, he played against the Titans. That was probably a good game to check. I compared what actually happened with what my model predicted, just to see how close it was.
- First: Gathered all the data on Watson I could find.
- Second: Built a simple model to predict his performance.
- Third: Used some deep learning magic with a ton of layers.
- Fourth: Tested the model with a bunch of football questions.
- Fifth: Checked the model’s predictions against real games.
So, is this Watson thing gonna make me a fantasy football champ? I don’t know, maybe not. But it was a fun experiment, and it’s cool to see how these models can actually learn stuff. It’s like having a little football robot buddy, except it’s not really a robot. And it doesn’t have any buddies. Okay, I’m rambling now. But yeah, that’s what I did. It was a good time!
My Conclusion
The whole point of this was to see if all this data and model-building stuff could actually be useful for fantasy football. It’s not like I’m gonna quit my day job and become a full-time fantasy football prediction guy, but it definitely gave me something to think about. Also, I won’t be trading any information with anyone just yet.
