Andreas Groll, Christophe Ley, Gunther Schauberger, Hans Van Eetvelde
Abstract In this work, we propose a new hybrid modeling approach for the scores
of international soccer matches which combines random forests with Poisson
ranking methods. While the random forest is based on the competing teams’
covariate information, the latter method estimates ability parameters on
historical match data that adequately reflect the current strength of the teams.
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