{"id":1162,"date":"2013-06-19T01:42:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T01:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2020-09-22T01:58:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T01:58:26","slug":"predicting-football-fixtures-are-you-any-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/predicting-football-fixtures-are-you-any-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Football fixture forecasting. Are you any good?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chelsea have produced artist’s impressions of how a new stadium at Battersea Power Station would look. Photograph: Chelsea\/PA (19 Jun 2013: downloaded via Google where the image was labeled as free to reuse)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Football fixture forecasting\u00a0is something I have expressed an interest in recently. Actually, this blog contains a forecasting<\/a> category, that you might be interested in.<\/p>\n

In my last post<\/a>, I mentioned a crowdfunding project<\/a> that I am trying to get off the ground. This prroject aims to investigate football fixture forecasting, utilising methodologies such as Artificial Neural Networks and algorithms based on Darwin’s prnciples of natural evolution (survival of the fittest).<\/p>\n

Doing research for this project, I looked around a few football forums and found that there is a brisk business<\/em> in football forecasting competitions (usually just for fun).<\/p>\n

For example:<\/p>\n