/predicting-mlb-performance

Analyzing MLB teams' stats over the past few decades to create a machine-learning model that predicts a team's wins as well as (if not better than) Pythagorean Expectation.

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predicting-mlb-performance

Analyzing MLB teams' stats over the past few decades to create a machine-learning model that predicts a team's wins as well as (if not better than) Pythagorean Expectation.

Huge shout-out to @gabbynobili for working on this with me! She's quite literally the greatest teammate of all time. We put a ton of work into this, especially when web-scraping all of the data we needed, so we really hope you enjoy and appreciate what we came up with as much as we do.

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  • Python 3 (Jupyter Notebook)

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Please don't hesitate to either reach out to us or make pull requests with revisions to make this implementation better!