Head-to-head

Many sports compete in a head-to-head manner where one team (player) plays against only one other team (player) at a time. Given the score of a game, it is clear how good the two teams are compared to each other, but not necessarily clear how these teams matchup against other teams. Thus, you need a collection of games to understand how good the teams are relative to each other.

In this part, we investigate start by constructing models for margin of victory and win-loss to produce a team (player) strength rating. We then move on to evaluate individual player contributions in a team sport.