Author Andrew Engel

DataRobot Intelligent Value Estimator for 2020 MLB Team and Player Performance Recently, we predicted how the 60-game 2020 MLB season would unfold -- for teams and for individual players. Please see our original post for all of the details of how we build the models with DataRobot’s leading artificial intelligence platform. Who is projected to win each division in the…

DataRobot Intelligent Value Estimator for 2020 MLB Team and Player Performance Before the 2020 season started, we predicted how the MLB season would unfold -- for teams and for individual players  -- by leveraging the leading DataRobot AI Platform. Then COVID changed the world. Health, the economy, and our entire way of life have all been fundamentally changed, as have…

At DataRobot, we love problems that involve large sets of data, discrete cause-and-effect events, and difficult predictions; which makes baseball the ideal playground for our data scientists. On our normal days, we work closely with our customers to build prediction models that demystify the future with advanced machine learning techniques. With the current lack of baseball games to watch and…

In Super Bowl LIV this Sunday, the Kansas City Chiefs will face the San Francisco 49ers in Miami, Florida. This will be the first Super Bowl appearance for the Chiefs in 50 years. After a loss in 2013, the 49ers are looking to secure their sixth Super Bowl ring, which would tie them with the New England Patriots and Pittsburgh…

There have been anecdotal complaints that the postseason baseball is deader than its regular-season counterpart, so we used DataRobot to analyze 100k+ batted balls in 2019.  Something is up with baseball this year. On Wednesday, October 9th, the Los Angeles Dodgers faced the Washington Nationals in an elimination Game 5 of the National League Division Series, and in the bottom…

Database marketing based on the Recency-Frequency-Monetary (RFM) approach has been the standard in casino marketing for many decades. Unfortunately, RFM-based marketing has several limitations for casinos. Potentially profitable players are overlooked, while current players may be trained to continually expect a discount. Meanwhile, a proliferation of alternative entertainment options have emerged and are changing customer behavior, presenting risks to casinos…

This blog is meant to be a fun and unique take on predicting the 2019 MLB World Series winner.  The 2019 Major League Baseball (MLB) playoffs have begun! Ever since Moneyball was published back in 2003, the popularity of sports analytics has soared beyond behind-the-scenes analytics teams to the general public, forever changing how people watch baseball. Anyone and everyone…

A few months ago, DataRobot simulated the Championships at Wimbledon to predict who would win. After following the fortnight of tennis, we anxiously watched the women’s and men’s finals.  In the women’s finals, we watched our DataRobot model’s favorite, Serena Williams (odds of winning 22%) handily fall to our model’s fifth favorite, Simona Halep (6%). The next day, in the…