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by oneeyedpigeon 3669 days ago
"We will see soon how the model fares."

I'm no statistician but "soon" seems unlikely; wouldn't you need a lot of results in order to judge how good these predictions are? I'd like to know if the model can use data capped at any time period, so that matches from the past can be judged against what the model would predict.
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pmontra 3669 days ago
If they have data for the last 10 years they could use the model to predict thousands of games. That would start to be statistically significant for anybody.

However, I'm no statistician myself too but if the goal is to predict only 12 results how do we evaluate the predictions of the model? There should be a difference between 0 and 12 successes.

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pmontra 3665 days ago
They are 5-2 after the first 3 days. The first game was a draw (72%-28%) and the third one a win for Wales (39%-61%). Two days and five games to go.
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