As sports fans, we’ve all had interesting episodes in our lives where we’ve tried to predict the outcomes of our favorite sports events. The same exists when it comes to the NBA. Season after season, fans and analysts state their case as to who might emerge as the winner in every NBA matchup that the season offers. So why not put some Sports Analytics knowledge to use in order to predict the outcomes of matches? This article will primarily focus on the usage of the Pythagorean Expectation and the ELO Rating System to determine the outcomes of NBA games in the regular season and the postseason.
A Deep Dive into the Science of Statistical Expectation
It was the summer of 1988 when I stepped onto a boat for the first time in my life. It was a passenger ferry…