Dynasty Daddy

This project is currently in Beta and is deployed to https://dynasty-daddy.com.

Dynasty Daddy is a webapp that integrates with fantasy platform apis and scrapes KeepTradeCut's player evaluations to create metrics on each owner's fantasy league.

Goal

The goal is to provide users with a frictionless way to see player value, team value, draft breakdowns, and more. When managing my teams I would constantly have to switch between multiple websites to figure out what moves I should make. I wanted to find a way to spend less time doing research and leverage the data in more ways than before. Thus Dynasty Daddy was born to help me beat my friends in fantasy easier!

Supported Platforms

Architecture

Dynasty Daddy's front end is an angular 11 web application with an node express api connected to a postgres database. This database is populated using a python cron job that scrapes KeepTradeCut's player rankings once a day (since KeepTradeCut currently doesn't have a public api). For Sleeper & MFL's data, we use their public apis found in their documentation.

How to run locally

Requirements:

npm
Node
Postgres

First, clone repo and open up in your preferred IDE.

Database

Run scripts in /back-end/database/scripts directory to create database and insert data.

Front End

Navigate to the front end project directory /front-end/fantasy-app/
Run npm install and npm run start and the front end should spin up.

API

Navigate to the project directory /back-end/express-api
Copy the .env.example file renaming it to just .env. Then update the CONNECTION_STRING to point to the local db containing the data.
Now, run npm install and npm run start and the api should spin up.

Future Improvements

Support other platforms like Yahoo, Fleaflicker, etc.
Machine learning on data to predict the best players to buy and sell.
Better draft predictor based on team needs
More team analytics
Better responsive/mobile experience
More value calculations (Dynasty Process, Fantasy Calc)

Packages

ng2-charts - chart.js with angular 11
Angular mat - for tables, and other styling components
javascript-color-gradient - color gradients
simple-statistics - statistics and probability calculations
angular2-query-builder - query builder for player comparison advanced search
ngx-device-detector - detects if using mobile device, tablet, or desktop
ngx-mat-select-search - custom mat select search box with dropdown
ngx-google-analytics - used to track user metadata and build reports on features
ng2-adsense - used to add google ads to the application to help pay server cost :)

Deployment

CI/CD using Github Actions to build and push images to docker hub when a PR to main is created.
The project is deployed on a DigitalOcean Ubuntu Droplet and uses docker compose to spin up images.
Watchtower monitors changes to Docker Hub and pulls new images every 30 seconds and redeploys them.