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Challenge #103: Just another game?

cgoodman3
14 - Magnetar
14 - Magnetar

Here's my solution:

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Took a bit of time to understand the errors being generated by the regression tool, eventually realised it doesn't like null values.

Got quite a few offence metric in the prediction model, but guess that's important as that's how you score points. Being a Brit I don't know too much about NFL so hopefully haven't caused much disservice to the game!



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Chris
Check out my collaboration with fellow ACE Joshua Burkhow at AlterTricks.com
OllieClarke
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora
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Took the 4 lowest correlated (non-expected) variables
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TonyA
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

Solution attached. Looks like the neural network got me the closest. It hit both the 2016 results and 2017 results almost exactly but I also included the 2018 results and it didn't do quite so well. 

Laszlo_D
8 - Asteroid
 
KMiller
8 - Asteroid

Solution attached.

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arjanloogman
8 - Asteroid

Yes, I peeked...

 

For some reason, the Tree Model got me closest predicting the Super Bowl...?

 

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Anyway, great to be learning this topic, slowly dawning on me...

 

...and I know it's close to blasphemous, but I even got the Pearson's correlation choose the variables for a predictive macro...

 

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Kind regards,

 

Arjan Loogman

hanykowska
11 - Bolide

Nice predictive practice, although I'm not sure I did what was intended

 

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T_Willins
14 - Magnetar
14 - Magnetar

Interesting to look at what data sets produce more accurate results.  In addition to predicting results using all data I broke out regular season from post season to see if it was more accurate (it was not), but not enough data for post season to return a result.  I found some feeds for NHL data, so I might try my hand at building predictive models for hockey.  I read an article that hockey is going to have about 3,000 data points per second for games, so lots to analyze.  

 

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JamesCameron
8 - Asteroid

Here's my effort - leaned heavily on what I learnt in challenge 18!

 

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rmassambane
10 - Fireball