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Predicting Wide Receiver Fantasy Points w/ Tidymodels Pt 2

Random Intercepts

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I made a slight mistake. I broke a core assumption of linear regression in the previous edition of the model. To use linear regression, one must assume that each data point…

Predicting NFL Game Outcomes in R (part 2)

Tuning our regularized regression model

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Hello everyone! In the first post I shared on modeling NFL game outcomes, I shared a simple way to create a NFL game prediction model using nflreadR and tidymodels. In this…

Predicting Wide Receiver Fantasy Points w/ Tidymodels

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I’ve played fantasy football for a decade and have always wondered how ESPN (and Yahoo, Sleeper, etc.) make their fantasy projections week to week. Where are they getting…

Predicting NFL Game Outcomes in R (part 1)

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Hello everyone! Today I want to share a tutorial on using nflreadR to read historic NFL results and model game outcomes with tidymodels.

Data-Driven Descriptions: Using Machine Learning to Profile 2020 NBA Draft Prospects

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If you have ever read, listened to, or watched analysis of an NBA draft you might have heard some strange sounding phrases like “3 – and – D wing”, “rim-protector”, “pure…