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Predictive Golf Analytics Versus The Daily Fantasy Sports Market, John O'Malley
Predictive Golf Analytics Versus The Daily Fantasy Sports Market, John O'Malley
CMC Senior Theses
This study examines the different skills necessary for PGA tour players to succeed at specific annual tournaments, in order to create a predictive model for DraftKings PGA contests. The model takes into account data from the PGA Tour ShotLink Intelligence Program. The predictive model is created each week based on past results from the specific tournament in question, with the hope of predicting a group of twenty-five players who should be successful based on their statistical profile. The results of the model are detailed in this paper, which covers the first nine weeks of the 2017 PGA Tour season, with …
Step-Selection Functions For Modeling Animal Movement -- Case Study: African Buffalo, Maia Adar
Step-Selection Functions For Modeling Animal Movement -- Case Study: African Buffalo, Maia Adar
CMC Senior Theses
Understanding what factors influence wildlife movement allows landscape planners to make informed decisions that benefit both animals and humans. New quantitative methods, such as step-selection functions, provide valuable objective analyses of wildlife connectivity. This paper provides a framework for creating a step-selection function and demonstrates its use in a case study. The first section provides a general introduction about wildlife connectivity research. The second section explains the math behind the step-selection function using a simple example. The last section gives the results of a step-selection model for African buffalo in the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area. Buffalo were found to …