Welcome to part two of our Machine Learning in Soccer series! For this project I used something called linear regression. Which is not necessarily machine learning but is a super simple way to predict results using past data. Many of the “bibles” of machine learning refer to linear regression as one of the algorithms that we should all know, and that makes a lot of sense because it sets up the foundation for other regression methods. Because your computer is taking the data and then spitting out an answer we can call this a machine learning exercise, but I think it is better to think of linear regression as an introduction into applied statistics rather than machine learning.
Machine Learning - Game Prediction Week 1
