Predicts a forward's non-penalty goals from the previous season's statistics, so a club can shortlist players before paying transfer fees. Georgetown M.S. capstone, 2022.
Live dashboard: https://mngoh.github.io/SPM-Model/
- Data: 2,786 players from FBref, cleaned and merged in
notebooks/0_Data_Cleaning.ipynb - Features: shooting, passing and possession statistics per 90 minutes, selected after the correlation analysis in
1_EDA.ipynb - Models: eight compared in
2_ML_Models.ipynb(linear, regularized, tree ensembles and gradient boosting), scored on a held-out season - Result: the dashboard shows each model's error and the top predicted scorers
Layout: notebooks/ analysis, data/ inputs and the merged table, index.html the dashboard.