eppingere / nfl-elo-game

My attempt to beat Nate Silver at predicting NFL Games

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Me vs Nate Silver on NFL ELO Rating Game

My Strategy

  • Generalize constants to Forecast.forcast to be optional inputs
  • Find optimal values for those inputs using scipy

How do I test it

Simply run:

python eval.py

Will output something like

    ...
    From 2000 to 2017, my forecast scored an average of 851.37 vs Nate Silver's 839.36
    ...

Fork from Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight NFL Predictor

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My attempt to beat Nate Silver at predicting NFL Games

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