Super Bowl Prediction Linear Model

Overview

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To predict the score of the Superbowl, I had to acquire, munge, and load one season of NFL statistics into a Python Pandas dataframe.

Acquire

I scraped ~500 NFL games' statistcs from ProFootballReference.com using a custom Python script utiltizing the Beautiful Soup API.

Munge

Load

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Structure

• models/*
• models/NFLScorePrediction.py
  • Displays how linear model was generated
• models/Feature Engineering
• scraping/NFLSeason.py
• models/cross_validation
• charts/

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