Advances in Physical Education, 2019, 9, 215-222
https://www.scirp.org/journal/ape
ISSN Online: 2164-0408
ISSN Print: 2164-0386
DOI:
10.4236/ape.2019.94015 Sep. 10, 2019 215 Advances in Physical Education
Neural Network Algorithm in Predicting
Football Match Outcome Based on Player
Ability Index
Hengzhi Chen
Bashu Secondary School, Chongqing, China
Abstract
Nowadays, when people want to predict the result of a football match, most
of them just refer to their own experience or some specialists’ opinions.
However, since artificial intelligence is very good at analyzing big data, it is
more and more used to pred
ict the result instead of one’s experience in order
to approach the accuracy. There are three typical algorithms—c
onvolutional
neural network (ANN), random forest (RF) and support vector machine
(SVM). In this paper, these three algorithms are all applied to predict the re-
sult of a football match, and the accuracy of them is also compared.
Keywords
Convolutional Neural Network, Football Match Prediction, FIFA
1. Introduction
Since football is becoming more and more popular worldwide, football gambling
also develops very fast. Since casinos always want to make the largest benefit in
this area, a high performance of football result prediction is required. However,
if the prediction is just based on one’s experience, it cannot be very accurate
since the workload of analyzing all the data of players in two teams and matches
between two teams is too heavy for people and the result is somehow subjective.
Under this situation, using artificial intelligence to predict the results becomes a
good solution. Artificial intelligence is absolutely objective, and it has a great
ability in calculating and analyzing huge amounts of data to generate the best
prediction. Havard Rue and Oyvind Salvesen collect the data of all the matches
in Premier League during 1997-1998 season, and then they use the Bias dynamic
generalized linear model to predict the final rank, which gives very good results.
How to cite this paper:
Chen, H. Z.
(201
9). Neural Network Algorithm in Pre-
dicting Football Match Outcome Based on
Player Ability Index
.
Advances in Physical
Educati
on, 9,
215-222.
https://doi.org/10.4236/ape.2019.94015
Received:
August 29, 2019
Accepted:
September 7, 2019
Published:
September 10, 2019
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