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Prediction of Football Match Results in Turkish Super League Games

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Proceedings of the Second International Afro-European Conference for Industrial Advancement AECIA 2015

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 427))

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This paper presents a model that predicts the results (Home Win/Draw/Away Win) of the football matches played in the Turkish Super League, by using three machine learning classification methods, which are Support Vector Machines (SVMs), Bagging with REP Tree (BREP), and Random Forest (RF). The dataset used in this study includes the data of 70 features, which are composed of 69 input variables relating to statistical data of home and away teams, and a target variable in 1222 total football games in a 4-year period between 2009 and 2013. In connection, the most effective features of these input variables were determined as a reduced dataset by using some feature selection methods. The results showed that the match outcomes were predicted using the reduced dataset better than using the original dataset and the RF classifier produced the best result.

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  1. Çorlu Engineering Faculty, Computer Engineering Department, Namık Kemal University, 59860, Çorlu, Tekirdağ, Turkey

    Pınar Tüfekci

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  1. Sci. Network for Innovation & Rec. Exell, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR, Auburn, Washington, USA

    Ajith Abraham

  2. Membre du Groupe Efrei, ESIGETEL, Villejuif, France

    Katarzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska

  3. Faculty of Computers & Information, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

    Aboul Ella Hassanien

  4. VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic

    Vaclav Snasel

  5. ENIS, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

    Adel M. Alimi

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Tüfekci, P. (2016). Prediction of Football Match Results in Turkish Super League Games. In: Abraham, A., Wegrzyn-Wolska, K., Hassanien, A., Snasel, V., Alimi, A. (eds) Proceedings of the Second International Afro-European Conference for Industrial Advancement AECIA 2015. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 427. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29504-6_48

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