Monday, September 29, 2008

2_Data Mining in Sports_Wanderers

Project Name: Data Mining in Sports
Team Number 2
Team Name: Wanderers
Team Members:
1. Bhuvan Prasad A
2. Akshat A Patil
3. Guruprasad A Shenoy
4. Ankit Anand


The Problem Statement: Does past performance predict future performance? Using statistical data about the past, is it possible to build a model of predictive value?

Data Source: Cricket archives on websites (cricinfo.com) and related sites
The Benefit / Utility: Considering that IPL has finally arrived with a bang, we need to consciously think about sports as a commercial enterprise. This also means, we need to give prediction a thought. It can be used to predict the future gains from a particular player while you buy the player in an auction. Prediction can also be used in betting on websites like Ladbrokes.com

Expected Outcomes: We hope to gain insight into predictive analysis by finding patterns in games using quantization of player and team attributes. We plan to use previous match records to improve upon our model by including hidden factors on a continuous basis and comparing it with current records.

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