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ESPN and TopCoder Run College Football Algorithm Challenge

Posted by Soulskill on from the hail-to-the-victors dept.

Mike writes with a timely link to a story about the ESPN/TopCoder Winning Formula Challenge, a combination of fantasy football and competitive programming. The goal is to write an algorithm to predict the outcome of college football games using a collection of historical data provided by the tournament organizers. The season is broken up into 3-4 week chunks that are used to evaluate the results. Prizes will total $100,000.

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  1. Re:Problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The "best" algorithm would be one that, over a large number of tests, performs best. That means, although it might NOT make any accurate predictions this season, or even the next, it WILL HAVE a good success rate in the long run. There's no reason to abandon a good algorithm just be cause it's in a downswing.

    There, fixed it for you.