WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:06.480 That's his third 20-yard reception of the game, and this one is gonna go for a touchdown! You got 00:00:06.480 --> 00:00:10.622 number 88 on your fantasy football team, you've got to be loving this game right now. 00:00:11.417 --> 00:00:16.720 Chris Anthony uses math to predict the future, albeit in a different way. He writes a column for the 00:00:16.720 --> 00:00:21.280 National Football League's website. He is obsessed with fantasy football. 00:00:22.400 --> 00:00:25.760 I have a natural love of football. I was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:31.360 so it just kind of is in my blood, and also as a professional, I work with data all the time, 00:00:31.360 --> 00:00:36.880 and building FantasyOmatic was my ability to converge the two together. About 10 years ago, 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:42.000 I wanted to figure out a way that I could beat my friends and family at fantasy football and I 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:48.080 decided to build an app in FileMaker, and I was just kind of using it for my own hobby purposes, 00:00:48.080 --> 00:00:53.280 and all of a sudden, I had an idea about a way that I might be able to kind of beat the system. So, 00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:58.400 I decided to build an application to do that. The fantasy football industry today is about 00:00:58.400 --> 00:01:04.880 18 billion dollar industry, so it is a large industry, right, and we're having an impact on 00:01:04.880 --> 00:01:10.800 that industry using the tools that we've got for machine learning in FileMaker. We have been able, 00:01:10.800 --> 00:01:17.120 over time, to do a better job predicting fantasy football outcomes and FileMaker has grown with us 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:23.167 and we've been able to take advantage of some of the newer tools in FileMaker, ah, to help us do that. 00:01:29.440 --> 00:01:33.440 Since the application has been around for 10 years, and FileMaker keeps updating and 00:01:33.440 --> 00:01:36.960 giving us new technologies to work with, we're able to modernize the approach. 00:01:36.960 --> 00:01:41.760 For example, we used to use an API connection to a system that would run our machine learning model 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:46.400 and create the ratings for us. Now, we integrate that natively into the platform using CoreML. 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:51.920 Once I got on with FantasyOmatic, a lot of my time was spent on developing and working on the 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:56.720 predictive game models. Those game models ended up actually predicting three of the 00:01:56.720 --> 00:02:02.800 first four Super Bowl winners. We actually were able to use that system to outperform a lot of the 00:02:03.440 --> 00:02:08.720 big data predictive industries on their predictions, and their models. At FantasyOmatic, 00:02:08.720 --> 00:02:16.080 we we actually use a calculation field, uh, to write a weekly preview article for players to 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:20.880 look out for each week, and the readers of course don't know that this is actually an 00:02:20.880 --> 00:02:26.160 AI that's writing the article. Here we are, a really small team, being able to compete with 00:02:26.160 --> 00:02:31.120 big data and large organizations that are throwing millions at these applications, and we're able to 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:35.840 do it more efficiently and with more agility because we're using the FileMaker platform.