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Hockey Home Team Win Predictions data

Description

Home team win probability predictions and outcomes pertaining to the 2020-21 National Hockey League (NHL) Season. Probability predictions x were obtained from FiveThirtyEight via downloadable spreadsheet on their website (see below for link). The win/loss game results were obtained by web-scraping from NHL.com using the NHL API.

Usage

hockey

Format

hockey

A data frame with 868 rows and 4 columns:

y

game result, 1 = home team win, 0 = home team loss

x

predicted probabilities of a home team win from FiveThirtyEight

rand

uniformly random generated predicted probability of a home team from range [0.26, 0.78]

winner

game result (string), "home" = home team win, "away" = home team loss

Source

https://data.fivethirtyeight.com/