Algorithm consideration

[franz101]

Kickscore is a rating based model.
Over time a team might loose their rating but short term a longer break than the other team is considered a plus point.

How would you solve this mathematically

[amirbachar]

The way it can be modelled, is using two additional items:

1. decreasing the mean rating of the team linearly over time, and increasing it by a constant after each match to compensate for that.
2. Adding a positive feature "break from last match" or a negative feature "matches in the last 2 weeks", that will be added to a each team for that match (same as Home Field)

[lucasmaystre]

Agreed with @amirbachar - you can encode things like "momentum" with additional items.

[franz101]

Thank you, will try to test it in a few weeks. Also would love to improve the speed a bit of the Python module.

[victorkristof]

Hi @franz101, if speed is an issue for you, please note that we also have a Go implementation of the Kickscore library, which makes computations more efficient. I hope this helps!