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Predicting Football Using R.

Posted: 2014-11-02 19:30:00+00:00. | By: Martin Eastwood.

I recently gave a presentation to the Manchester R Users' Group discussing how to predict football results using R. My presentation gave a brief overview of how to create a Poisson model in R and apply the Dixon and Coles adjustment to it to account for dependance in the scores.

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The Poisson Model So Far.

Posted: 2012-11-02 19:30:00+00:00. | By: Martin Eastwood.

In my last article I wrote about my experiences using the Poisson distribution to predict the outcome of football matches. The results so far have been rather disappointing so I thought I would have a look at where things were going wrong.

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Using Poisson to Predict Football Matches.

Posted: 2012-10-29 19:30:00+00:00. | By: Martin Eastwood.

The Power Of Goals recently blogged about using the Poisson distribution to predict the outcome of football matches. I have been evaluating the predictive ability of the Poisson for the English Premier League (EPL) this season so I thought I would share my experiences too.

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