Winning the Fantasy Game
The US Open introduced an extra way to engage with the event this year with a Fantasy Tennis competition. In this post, I share a simulation model that can help with fantasy strategizing. The basic idea is to run outcomes of the US Open men’s and women’s draws, predict match statistics for each hypothetical match, and tabulate the corresponding fantasy points that are up for grabs with each match. This model alone won’t win you the fantasy game, where so much luck is involved, but it can be a useful tool for choosing more winnable strategies.