Basketball predictions in the NCAAB and NBA: Similarities and differences. (29th June 2016)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Basketball predictions in the NCAAB and NBA: Similarities and differences. (29th June 2016)
- Main Title:
- Basketball predictions in the NCAAB and NBA: Similarities and differences
- Authors:
- Zimmermann, Albrecht
- Abstract:
- Abstract : Most work on predicting the outcome of basketball matches so far has focused on National College Athletics Association Basketball (NCAAB) games. Since NCAAB and professional (National Basketball Association, NBA) basketball have a number of differences, it is not clear to what degree these results can be transferred. We explore a number of different representations, training settings, and classifiers, and contrast their results on NCAAB and NBA data. We find that adjusted efficiencies work well for the NBA, the NCAAB regular season is not ideal for training to predict its post‐season, the two leagues require classifiers with different bias, and Naïve Bayes predicts the outcome of NBA playoff series well. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Statistical Analysis and Data Mining: The ASA Data Science Journal, 2016
- Is Part Of:
- Statistical analysis and data mining. Volume 9:Number 5(2016)
- Journal:
- Statistical analysis and data mining
- Issue:
- Volume 9:Number 5(2016)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 9, Issue 5 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 9
- Issue:
- 5
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-0009-0005-0000
- Page Start:
- 350
- Page End:
- 364
- Publication Date:
- 2016-06-29
- Subjects:
- sports analytics -- basketball -- match outcome predictions
Data mining -- Statistical methods -- Periodicals
006.312 - Journal URLs:
- http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/112701062/home ↗
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1002/sam.11319 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1932-1864
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