Predicting the future performance of soccer players
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Authors
We propose a multitask, regression-based approach for predicting future performances of soccer players. The multitask approach allows us to simultaneously learn individual player models as offsets to a general model. We devise multitask variants of ridge regression and ε-support vector regression. Together with a hashed joint feature space, the generalized models can be optimized using standard techniques. Relevant features for the prediction are identified by a modified recursive feature elimination strategy. We report on extensive empirical results using real data from the German Bundesliga.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Statistical Analysis and Data Mining |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Pages (from-to) | 373-382 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| ISSN | 1932-1864 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 01.10.2016 |
- feature selection, machine learning, multitask regression, predictive analytics, ridge regression, support vector regression
- Engineering
Research areas
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
- Statistics and Probability
