We develop a method for maximizing potential in the sports analytics picking winners
problem. We do so by: i) leveraging BERT-based, large-scale sentiment analysis of tweets …

The Sports Analytics Market is growing rapidly, in 2020 it was valued at over $1 billion and is
expected to reach over $5 billion by 2026. However, even with this level of growth the use of …

In the last two decades, fantasy sports have grown massively in popularity. Fantasy football
in particular is the most popular fantasy sport in the United States. People spend hours upon …

Sporting event outcome prediction is a well-established and actively researched domain,
with a particular focus on college basketball's March Madness tournament. Researchers …

In this thesis, we look at a number of methods to forecast success (winners and losers), both
of single games and playoff series (best-of-seven games) in the sport of ice hockey, more …

Can the sentiment contained in tweets serve as a meaningful proxy to predict match
outcomes and if so, can the magnitude of outcomes be predicted based on a degree of …

Fantasy football, just like the game of football itself, as grown from a benign neighborhood
pastime into an immensely profitable corporate industry. Over the past decade, the number …

Fantasy Basketball ranks secondly behind Fantasy Football for fantasy sports popularity
(Statistica 2018), but trails substantially behind in total participation. The relatively small …

The sports industry is big business globally and domestically; 10 for example, the New York
Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) generated $287 million in revenue in …

This thesis explores the application of machine learning algorithms and data analytics in
predicting football results for the 2022/2023 season. The primary objective is to evaluate the …