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Prediction of sporting events: A Scientific Approach

My final year undergraduate dissertation project (many years ago) attempted to predict the outcome of horse races using Neural Networks. I briefly blogged about it in June 2009 (https://graham-kendall.com/blog/?p=8/). The result of the project was (in my view) encouraging but was lacking in a couple of areas. The data was incomplete (the starting prices were […]

Football Prediction: A decision to be made

Today I have been working on my research that is investigating if it is possible to predict the outcome of football matches. The measure I will eventually use, to see if the predictions can be considered successful, will include if it can make money at the bookmakers, if it it more successful than other tipsters […]

Football (Soccer) Prediction: Data Collection (#002)

If you have read previous versions of this blog you’ll know that a) I have an interest in trying to predict football (soccer) matches and b) I am currently developing a system (as a research project) that I hope to get up and running in the next month or so. What kept me busy for […]

Football (Soccer) Prediction: Development Framework (#001)

As the new football (soccer in the USA) season approaches I am trying to get a football prediction system up and running. I think I will struggle to get it ready for the start of the new season (which starts Aug 7th) but that is not so important as this is mostly a research project. […]

Football Prediction: Follow up

Whilst searching around the net looking for relevant resources for my plan to predict football matches, I came across The Sports Exchange. It looks like a relatively new web site, but seems very nice. I posted a comment in their blog (about football pools prediction), and received a number of replies. The blog entry can […]

Predicting the Results of Football Matches

I have recently become interested in trying to predict the results of football matches. The interest grew from wondering what else I could use the data for, that I had collected for generating football fixtures (see JORS paper). The data included the travel distances between all the teams in each division. I also maintained the […]

Horse Race Prediction with Neural Networks

I was sorting through some old papers recently and I came across my undergraduate final year dissertation. I recall that it started as a project about genetic algorithms but quickly turned into a project that used neural networks to predict the outcome of horse races. I trained a back propagation network and used the final […]