Classifying and predicting whether 2.5 (more than 2) goals are scored in a football match, using different statistical learning methods (regularized regression, random forests, boosting) and past data on different european football leagues.

Feature data set was constructed via data from (up to 2020): https://football-data.co.uk/

using python (jupyter notebooks), by extending the code from: https://github.com/llSourcell/Predicting_Winning_Teams/blob/master/Scraping%20and%20Cleaning.ipynb

Features can be found in: Acronyms