In order to get worn buffets money you need to predict these seven versus eight games with 90 accuracy in order to get Vegas's money you probably need to predict them with 60 accuracy so if you're that good at predicting who's going to win these games you should just go to Vegas. The program uses data on 400,000 games and then it tries to figure out what tendencies there were in the 399,000 games that has left. It says okay give me tons of data about march madness Historically going back as far as you have just buckets of data and then it says okay I'm going to take a thousand of those games out and not look at them for an hour or two
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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