computer methods one of the nice things about them is they'll actually tell you how how sure they are so you can put in all this information about two teams and say they're playing well could you get to put in how are the players feeling today I mean isn't that a factor that you're not considering here it is. You can put in for example how many minutes of playing time did this guy have over the last three weeks that's very and that's sort of a proxy for how tired is he yeah.
Can machine learning predict the outcome of basketball games? On this episode of StarTalk: Sports Edition, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Gary O’Reilly, and Chuck Nice talk machine learning with computer scientist and author of The Factor Man, Matt Ginsberg.
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