Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by thom 3669 days ago
This is similar to the stuff GoalImpact does:

https://twitter.com/Goalimpact/status/740657055841816577

It's true most predictive models work at the team level, but it's interesting to point out that one of the more successful models over the last season was Chad Murphy (@soccermetric)'s MOTSON, an SVM trained over a bunch of stats per player:

https://twitter.com/JamesWGrayson/status/732673663019802625