April 2017
Beginner to intermediate
358 pages
9h 30m
English
URL: http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/ORL/2014_roster_status.html
Larger exercise!
Sports teams change regularly from game to game. An easy win for a team can turn into a difficult game if a couple of the best players are suddenly injured. You can get the team rosters from basketball-reference as well. For example, the roster for the 2013-2014 season for the Orlando Magic is available at the preceding link. Similar data is available for all NBA teams.
Writing code to integrate how much a team changes and using that to add new features can improve the model significantly. This task will take quite a bit of work though!
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