I work in an office full of hostile, catty, relationally-aggressive women.

They always want to gossip in my office and have me try to pick sides in their stupid, petty little feuds, but I can't close my office door because I don't want clients thinking I'm not around.

My boss does not care about my plight, and HR, while wonderful people, do not want to reassign me because I'm doing such a lovely job where I am.

Basically, I just want to complain that I should have gone to school for something else.

Keep up the good work, you guys. Sorry that the squeakiest wheels bitching about your product remind me of the women in my office.

This question is for anybody interested in sharing, by the way!

I know that programming is a valuable skill, but outside of taking an introductory C++ course in high school (many moons ago) with a teacher who clearly didn't care about what she was doing, I've never actually tried learning a programming language. In jest, I do understand technology (as evidenced by friends and extended family targeting me as the pseudo-IT guy -- bad example since they're different skill sets, but at least I'm not Zoolander about stuff and can learn/assimilate knowledge pretty quickly when needed), but never went back to wanting to learn more in-depth material.

I know there's sites like codecademy and plenty of e-books and textbooks (and community college courses) where one can learn independently, but what I'm wondering is how you all got your start with computer science.

Full disclosure: I'm not trying how to brute-force/trial-and-error my way into figuring out how FC and other projection sites work (because I guarantee I won't be able to figure it out, even if I were given the blueprint! Also: the proverbial 8-5 gig is keeping me busy enough).

However, I was thinking about wanting to add a marketable skill to my repertoire (because my current job is pretty mindless despite it requiring a graduate degree). On occasion, I use R and SPSS for work, so I feel that I have a solid foundation in statistics (not so much from a DFS perspective, but in terms of all-encompassing knowledge as it relates to my job).

If I wanted to learn, where would you advise me to start? A buddy of mine said Python, but I wanted to read about what your experiences were.

Thanks for reading! Still digging the site and interaction, as always!

Hi there!

When I'm looking at Lineup Rewind and crunch the (for example) 3 best teams based on actual score, the numbers don't sync up with the Actual Score and Actual Val columns (shaded in green).

For example, Alex Tanguay ($2,500 on DK) scored 5 points last night (1 G, 4 SOG). It lists his Actual Score as 4.6 in the "Calculate Best Teams" section, but when I click on his name, it lists 5 points.

Marian Gaborik's actual: 6.2 (in the "Best Teams" section), 7.4 (in the green-shaded section), and 5.5 (on his individual page) These gaps are confusing to me.

Another example: Mark Streit scored 8 points last night, but his Actual Score is listed as 10.4.

Basically, I want comfort knowing that I am still literate and not missing something completely obvious (e.g., FanDuel scores are accidentally being imported, and that's what he scored on FD last night -- I'm only on DK so I wouldn't know). Sorry for the hassle, but thank you in advance for your tutelage!

EDIT: thanks for all the hard work that goes into this. Sometimes the projections are a bit wild for hockey, but it must be due to the insane day-to-day variance.

Hey, lads -- appreciate all the hard work that's been going into this!

Because the Jets are a bit decimated on the blue line, Byfuglien has moved from winger to defense for the past few weeks. Unfortunately, DraftKings still has him listed as a winger (specifically RW), and I don't know if/when they will make the change.

Either way, I ran a projection using some of my research and the first few potential lineups have Byfuglien listed as a defenseman. Not a big deal because [I think] that's how he's coded on Fanduel, but on DraftKings, the lineups that are generated are impossible (although that's not your fault, obviously, since it's a DK quirk).

Would it be possible to change his coding to a winger on FC? I'll update you guys if DraftKings changes it, but if it's possible, that would be terrific.

Cheers!