Have you ever wanted to have a visualisation or dataframe accessible from your laptop or phone without having to run the code every time? Wouldn't it be just great if you could leave it running in the background and have a web address in which you could access the data anytime, anyplace (with an internet connection). Especially one that could automatically update when new data was available.

Turns out, you can, and its not that difficult at all. I taught myself how to do it over the last week just from Google, but there's a lot of rubbish out there…

Traditional economics assumed that individuals were purely rational, robotic entities that always made the correct decision that would ultimately maximize benefit to themselves —this idea of man was coined “homo economicus”.

Turns out, we aren’t even close to rational a lot of the time. We are quite often, systematically irrational.

Over the last few decades, behavioural economists have built on the work of psychology, neuroscience, and other subjects to better understand how individuals make decisions and why they behave in the way they do. We’ve discovered hundreds of ways that the human brain is systematically and consistently biased. This may…

This will probably be my last post about FPL for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I have other things to work on and secondly my friends have been reading these and they are starting to catch me up.

Therefore, to leave off I’ve created a very simple fantasy cheat sheet that incorporates both ROI (see my previous posts for an explanation) and upcoming fixtures. It therefore, combines both major aspects of picking a player: their form as well as their next few opponents.

Therefore, I wont dwell on it and will get straight to the point. Below is an embedded…

I crunched the numbers on Fantasy Premier league (FPL) this season so you don’t have to.

If you haven’t read my last post on this topic, then please go ahead. It shows how I used similar methods to get into the top 1% on the return to FPL after lockdown.

You do not have to have read it to be able to understand this, however.

I will use very simple maths and a little bit of coding (Python) to help find the ultimate FPL starting team for this season.

The theory

The theory is the same as last time: Maximum ROI =…

“What I know most surely about morality and the duty of man, I owe to football.”

Albert Camus died in a car crash in the small French town of Villeblevin in 1960, in his pocket were the train tickets he decided not to use at the last minute. Camus was a French Algerian Philosopher, Author and, journalist. Three years prior to his death he won the Nobel prize for literature. In his adolescence he was a passionate lover of Football until he was forced to give up the game at seventeen due to contracting tuberculosis. …

This piece will look specifically at the role Behavioural Economics can play in combatting pandemics with special attention being paid to the current Covid-19 Virus.

Covid-19 and human decision making

Stopping the Coronavirus is fundamentally a human decision making problem. If every single person in the world made the decision to increase their hygiene levels and self isolate properly there would not be much else we could do to combat the issue. At least until a vaccination is created.

Economists treat public health as a public good, and public good problems are notoriously tricky to solve. There is an intrinsic…