Predicting outcome of football matches using machine learning

Alexander Smirnov, Vasily Kumaev, Dmitry Vodopyanov
Lobachevsky University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Overview

In this mini-project we try to use some machine learning methods to predict outcome of football matches, such as:

• Naive Bayes
• Random Forest
• Support Vectors Machine

The dataset that used in our project is here.

Literature

• A. Yezus. Predicting outcome of soccer matches using machine learning (pdf)
• A. Joseph, N.E. Fenton, M. Neil. Predicting football results using Bayesian nets and other machine learning techniques (pdf)