F1 Fantasy Team Builder
aka Wind Tunnel
We are so very proud to launch our very own F1 Fantasy Team Builder. Coming from months of work and a lot of late nights, we’re finally ready to reveal!
Our F1 Fantasy Team Builder aims to be the most comprehensive way in calculating the best scoring F1 Fantasy teams, at any selected budget, using every data point from the most up to date sessions. As of writing this blog we are able to calculate the best teams using the 2022 F1 results and we have calculated data points using 2023 testing however as the season progresses you’ll be able to select the 2023 season which will be with the most up to date data. Using this tool you’ll be able to out preform your rivals in the most statistical and comprehensive way, eventually winning your leagues!
This is a shout out to Valentin / Waffle who created this, with the assitance of Sam.B.Y and discordmooser who joined who help in the final days. Genuinely an amazing tool and I can’t wait to personally use to it computate my own team line ups.
This blog post aims to be a comprehensive guide that walks you through:
- The Features
- What Each Panel Does and How to Use
The Features
- Instantly reactive
- Instantly calculates
- Up to date with the most recent data
- Allows the user to input their own assumptions, giving power to the user to make unique calculations of line ups.
- Multiple ways of determining driver’s performance via different centre methods and deviation methods
- Works on mobile browser
- Can be saved onto your mobile homepage as a functioning app
The Right Side Panel
This is where you’ll find the suggested fantasy teams. The calculations are set to default and the tool will instantly spit out the best line ups. Above you’re able to adjust your budget and switch DNF % calculations on or off. The significance of this is if you want to calculate the absolute best raw performance of drivers who, with the assumption, aim to never DNF in the first place. You are also able to select the Driver of the Day allocation, either split between the top 10 drivers, split across the whole grid evenly or allocate one particular driver 50% chance of winning the vote. I prefer to split evenly across the whole grid as well as having DNF off.
If there is a team line up you’re interested in, click the rectangle to open up a graphed history of their last 5 races as a line up.
If you’re deciding between multiple line ups, use their previous races together to help determine your next move, click on additional rectangles of teams which will all graph themselves as shown below:
The Left Side Panel
While the right hand side is where you’ll see the best calculated F1 fantasy teams. The left side is the foundation of those calculations, the left side is where you choose 1) which set of data to calculate from 2) how to center your bell curves and 3) how to determine your deviation. Currently they are set to 2022, Median and MAD which are the best 3 in my opinion at this given point (01/03/2023). Once the 2023 season starts it will default to the season and react to what happens.
What makes this tool special is that while it is run by calculates and data to produce results, you are able to edit to data with your own assumptions, if you believe Hamilton will score worse than what the tool calculations, you click his rectangle, and drag his bell curves back. The further left the curves, the better the position of Race or Qualifying, the taller the curve, the more reliable a driver hits that position, the flatter the curve, the less reliable a driver is at hitting that position, aka less consistent.
If you have made multiple edits on driver’s bell curves and want to share your assumptions with others, click the share button on the right side panel and you’re able to share the URL to others, which will hold those assumptions in place.
The Centre Panel
This is a nice interactive bubble section which gives individual fantasy stats on drivers and constructors, for example you can see DNF rates, FL rates, points per million and how many points of their predicted points is expected to come from qualifying as shown below:
If anyone has any questions, please get in touch via Medium, Instagram or our Discord. Please enjoy the tool!
