important factors in winning games. But how valuable is each factor in making the playoffs? •Is the rushing (RB), passing (QB) or defense making my team win? •Are they still performing at a high level? •Do they contribute to my bottom line of making it to the playoffs? M. Pangilinan 2
from compiled game logs to extract variables based on main game components: passing, rushing, and defense • Random forest trained to classify using the variables of the team and their opponent • Validation using 2010 - 2012 dataset M. Pangilinan 3
to be from ESPN game logs: http://archive.advancedfootballanalytics.com/2010/04/play-by-play-data.html • Random Forest: 50 estimators with 20 minimum events required in each node with 54 features used • Training set: ~2000 events M. Pangilinan 13