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Application Case 3.4

Predicting NCAA Bowl Game Outcomes#

Predicting the outcome of a college football game (or any sports game, for that matter) is an interesting and challenging problem...

See: Application Case

Questions for Case 3.4#

  1. What are the foreseeable challenges in predicting sporting event outcomes (e.g., college bowl games)?
  2. How did the researchers formulate/design the prediction problem (i.e., what were the inputs and output, and what was the representation of a single sample—row of data)?
  3. How successful were the prediction results? What else can they do to improve the accuracy?