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Predicting Football Using R

Published on November 02, 2014 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 a...

The Poisson Model So Far

Published on November 02, 2012 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 hav...

Using Poisson to Predict Football Matches

Published on October 29, 2012 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 Pre...