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by Sacré d'Jeu
Tue Nov 04, 2014 9:09 am
Forum: APBRmetrics
Topic: The forum might be better if...
Replies: 8
Views: 10035

Re: The forum might be better if...

... there was some structure. ... there was a '101 analytics' for beginners that gives an overview of where analytics are today and an explanation the important statistics/results that exist today. ... great/important literature, articles, posts, research, ... were gathered in one place. as I'm havi...
by Sacré d'Jeu
Mon Dec 24, 2012 2:34 pm
Forum: APBRmetrics
Topic: Best players NOT in the NBA
Replies: 6
Views: 5617

Re: Best players NOT in the NBA

I miss Rudy Fernandez :cry:
by Sacré d'Jeu
Tue Dec 18, 2012 7:29 pm
Forum: APBRmetrics
Topic: Project: Predicting wins based on Box Score totals
Replies: 6
Views: 6656

Re: Project: Predicting wins based on Box Score totals

Will you be intending to share your eventual work/paper with us here at APBR? I will update here how things are going, and eventually post the resulting paper. Yes, one interesting approach would be to fit a team level power ranking model, then fit another model to predict offensive and defensive s...
by Sacré d'Jeu
Tue Dec 18, 2012 5:38 pm
Forum: APBRmetrics
Topic: Project: Predicting wins based on Box Score totals
Replies: 6
Views: 6656

Re: Project: Predicting wins based on Box Score totals

I think I'm gonna start with a model, based on team statistics, and then later expand this model with player stats. The box scores would be very welcome. I have no experience with Python, but fortunately, I have a colleague students that might be able to convert them in something I can use. Most lik...
by Sacré d'Jeu
Tue Dec 18, 2012 4:08 pm
Forum: APBRmetrics
Topic: Project: Predicting wins based on Box Score totals
Replies: 6
Views: 6656

Project: Predicting wins based on Box Score totals

Hello everyone, I'm a student at University of Ghent, Belgium. We were assigned to do a project for the course Machine Learning and I had the idea of doing something with NBA statistics. More specifically, had the idea of trying to predict which team will win the game, based on their average box-sco...