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Predict winning teams in the Playoffs

This post is a sequel to my last post: Using Regular Season Matchup Records to Predict Winning Teams in the Playoffs. In that post, we used regular-season matchup records to predict which team will advance to the next round…

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Using regular-season matchup records to predict winning teams in the Playoffs

Question: “Can I reliably predict which team will advance to the next round of the Playoffs by leveraging teams’ regular-season matchup records?” Before entering the Playoffs, each team has opportunities play against every other team in the league (3…

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Rankings that best predict NBA playoffs championship winners

The 2017-18 NBA playoffs season has begun, and I figured it might be fitting to write a post related to NBA playoffs championships. I was looking at NBA teams’ regular-season rankings yesterday, provided via NBA Stats, and I was…

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Using All-Star games to predict which conference will take the Championship title

For some readers, this post may no longer be relevant due to the fact that, since the 2017-18 season, the All-Star games will no longer feature East versus West matchups. Instead, in the new format, two captains create their…

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Predicting Teams’ Points against Opponents (Part 2)

This post is a sequel to Predicting Teams’ Points against Opponents. To summarize, in the previous post, we found that taking an average of teams’ offensive strength and opponents’ defensive strength performed best at predicting points scored against…

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Predicting Teams’ Points against Opponents

Let’s think of a scenario. Team A is a great offensive team and has averaged 110 points against its opponents. But Team B is a great defensive team and has allowed only 90 points on average to its opponents. Given…

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