Stochastic based football simulation using data
2018 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (professional degree), 20 credits / 30 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
This thesis is an extension of a football simulator made in a previous project, where we also made different visualizations and simulators based on football data. The goal is to create a football simulator based on a modified Markov chain process, where two teams can be chosen, to simulate entire football matches play-by-play. To validate our model, we compare simulated data with the provided data from Opta. Several adjustments are made to make the simulation as realistic as possible. After conducting a few experiments to compare simulated data with real data before and after adjustments, we conclude that the model may not be adequately accurate to reflect real life matches.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2018. , p. 35
Series
UPTEC F, ISSN 1401-5757 ; 18052
Keywords [en]
football, markov, stochastic, data
National Category
Other Computer and Information Science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-359835OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-359835DiVA, id: diva2:1245916
Educational program
Master Programme in Engineering Physics
Presentation
2018-08-30, 12:13 (English)
Supervisors
Examiners
2018-09-132018-09-062018-09-13Bibliographically approved