prediction: Point estimate function for football predictions

In Niklas191/amateuR: Prediction for amateur German football outcomes

Description

This function returns point estimates for the number of home and away goals in matches for one specified team.

Usage

prediction(data, estimate, teamname, method = "future")

Arguments

data	Output of all_game_data with parameter team = NA
estimate	Output of estimate_params using the same data
teamname	The name of the team of interest as a string
method	Optional parameter which takes the values "all", "past" or "future" to filter predictions

Value

A description of the columns of both prediction data frames, upcoming and future:

Comment	A simple warning if the prediction may not be accurate
Home Estimate	Prediction of the number of goals scored by the home team, rounded to nearest integer
Away Estimate	Prediction of the number of goals scored by the away team, rounded to nearest integer
Final Score	The full time score for past games

Examples

my_games <- all_game_data(amateuR::kreisliga_goettingen)
estimate <- estimate_params(data = my_games, alpha = 0.9)
prediction(data = my_games, estimate = estimate, teamname = "RSV Göttingen 05", method = "all")

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