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Create Your Own NFL Touchdown Props with Python

Statistical framework for modeling discrete events with Poisson distributions

Blake Atkinson
Towards Data Science
12 min readJan 21, 2020

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Motivation

I’m excited to show off some inference methods to estimate touchdown props because the methods themselves are very powerful and have diverse application. The largest benefit is that inference methods, by…

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M.S. in Data Science, mostly sports things, @blaketatkinson on twitter, open for new work