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NBA: Strong Link or Weak Link
A few weeks ago, we did a project looking at hockey and identifying if it was a strong-link or whole chain sport. Basically, is it better to have a single all-star or a group of consistent, slightly better-than-average skaters on the rink? With hockey, we identified it as a whole-link sport; yet, since we’re in…
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NCAA Predicted Matches
Here it is! The perfect bracket. Just kidding… probably. How did we get here? Methodology Data Notes I started with a correlation analysis using a Kaggle dataset available here, and I found that the only factors significantly and positively correlated with NCAA bracket success were the following… So, for simplicity, I created a model just…
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NCAA Meets Neural Network
Happy March! For many Americans, March means Basketball (or NCAA snacks, like Buffalo Chicken Dip). I’ve tried a couple of dozen different ways to fill out March Madness brackets. Not because I know sports, but because I really don’t. I’ve picked teams based on color wheels, randomly, by the length of team names, which team…
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