NBA model projections for Friday, October 27th
Welcome to the first entry in our latest journey in predictive modeling! For those new to the process, let’s fill you in on what we are doing here.
Over the summer I decided that I wanted to take a deep dive into the process of building a model. There are many in the sports betting community who find their edges by building models based on parameters they deem to be significant. It’s a process that has always fascinated me, so I took a crack at it with an NFL model I lovingly call Jon Von Model.
The process I used to build the NFL model – which is based on regression testing and team-based statistics – was somewhat simple. So I tried to use those same parameters to build out an NBA model, but the results were inconsistent and wild.