Niran
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Building a Football Prediction model
Summary To the nearest whole number, the model predicted the correct goals scored for 10 out of the 20 teams, giving a strong accuracy of 50%. Is this a pure analytical masterclass by me or beginner’s luck? Since last week, I’ve made a few changes to my model. I’ve downweighted past results exponentially and added Read more
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Building a Football Prediction Model
Could I program a model to give me an accurate prediction of a football match? Maybe. I want to document my experiences in building a model that will predict games from scratch. Background One thing I found from reading papers is that a football match isn’t a single event. It can be separated into a Read more
Predicting Premier League games 