c-wilkinson/basic-fpl-scrape-scripts

Some basic scripts to generate FPL statistics and analysis for FPL and number geeks

basic-FPL-scrape-scripts

This repository represents my interest in numbers, fantasy football and experimentation with languages I don't often use. I'll split the repository by language then by title. The whole thing is covered under a "do as you wish" license.

PowerShell

PSFPLInfo

Badges

Unit Tests

Information

PSFPLInfo PowerShell Package Gallery.

This is a PowerShell module that scrapes the FPL website and generates objects that you can use. Usage is simple:

Install-Module -Name PSFPLInfo -Force; 
Import-Module -Name PSFPLInfo -Force; 

$session = Authenticate {your login e-mail} {your login password};
$league = Get-League {your mini league ID} $session;
$chart = Chart $league;

The three objects generated there are an FPL websession (used to allow you to scrap your mini-league data), a mini-league object (consisting of Manager, TeamName, TeamId, TeamValue and an array of GameWeekHistory) and a chart object. The chart object can be saved by calling:

$chart.SaveImage("somePath\someFile.png", "PNG");

This generates a line graph of the history of your mini-league rankings.

Python

PYFPLInfo

To come.

basic-fpl-scrape-scripts's Issues

No error handling around the session

The login session needs error handling around it

Team / manager names with non-latin characters don't display properly

Somewhere the encoding of a string is badly importing non-latin characters

Create a T-SQL version of the script, for giggles

Thought it might be fun to create a T-SQL script that creates the same line charts but with spatial data

Scrape teams in mini-league

Store in new object as part of league object

Add email of generated chart to workflow

Now that the script is running automatically, need to add an automated e-mail out of the results

Most transferred

Add most transferred in and out

Script doesn't deal with multiple pages

Leagues on multiple pages only display the first page in the chart and statistics. The chart should probably remain as a single page, but the rest of the statistics should consider all of the pages

Predicated score for each player

Predicted score for each player in the upcoming game week. See note book.

Security issues in multiple files

Decide whether it's worth making the user create a credential rather than passing in a username and password. This is required for the Authenticate function, which then has a knock on to some of the unit tests.

Create python version of script

Improve the help on each public function

Technically doesn't help the code review score, but we'll place it in that project there anyway. Need examples, outputs etc. This will make it easier to navigate around the objects.

Add common players for mini-league

Predicated best transfer

Using predicted score per player and team objects, suggest transfers for each team. See note book.

Scrape all players in the game

New object. Lots of data, so probably want to store to disk (JSON objects per player?) which will need to be updated when a gameweek completes. If scrape is fired and JSON data already up to date, then we need to do a shortcut and not scrape the data again.

Add commonly captained for mini-league