Fall 2020 - Edward M.
Predicting the 'spread' of a game based on historical team box score data
Data obtained from sports reference API https://sportsreference.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Simple Linear Regression (OLS) Model with 37 predictor variables and R-squared over 0.9
Next steps: Cross-validation to reduce overfitting and achieve better accuracy, extrapolation of predicted future data to use model on future games