[R] Prediciting sports team scores

[David Winsemius]

On Jan 17, 2012, at 10:55 AM, kerry1912 wrote:

> I am working on predicitng the scores for a days worth of matches of  
> team
> sports. I have already collected data for the teams for the season  
> we are
> concentrating on.
>
> I have been fitting poisson models for football games and have  
> worked out
> what model is best and which predictor variables are most important.
>
> We would now like to predict the probability distribution for the  
> scores for
> each team. eg. What is the probability of Manchester United vs Chelsea
> ending 1-1?

This certainly sounds like homework. Please read the relevant section  
in the Posting Guide.

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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT