Face-off Probability, part of NHL Edge IQ: Predicting face-off winners in real time during televised games
AWS Machine Learning
OCTOBER 5, 2022
With PPT data from the 2020-2021 season, we built a model to predict the likelihood that a face-off is occurring at a specified location given the average distance of each team to the location and the velocities of the players. At the end, we found that the LightGBM model worked best with well-calibrated accuracy metrics.
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