Developing computer data

[harlytiger]

Ok if I had a programer, and a mathmatics professor to develop a computer system on all sports. What would you include in the data?
Lets say I start today and have no past information.
Should I keep percent dogs win? percent home team wins? percent ranked team wins? percent a certain line wins? percent a BCS confrence vs non? Games vs teams last time they met?

Would love some feed back.

 

[yak merchant]

Final scores aren't always representative of actual performance. You'll need to get into the details. If I was going to capture 1 stat in football it would be number of punts. If you have a math professor, make sure he understands Hidden Markov Models.

 

[AR182]

Ok if I had a programer, and a mathmatics professor to develop a computer system on all sports. What would you include in the data?
Lets say I start today and have no past information.
Should I keep percent dogs win? percent home team wins? percent ranked team wins? percent a certain line wins? percent a BCS confrence vs non? Games vs teams last time they met?

Would love some feed back.

a stat that i think is very important in capping games is how well a team rushes the ball per carry & how well they stop the rush per carry...

 

[justin22g]

I am a big stats guy... sample size is very big in my eyes....

of course... players come and go during seasons...

keep sample sizes in mind

 

[harlytiger]

I need a source for the last 5 years data. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks for all your input