Transcript Predicting which position an NFL player should be on the video

PREDICTING WHICH POSITION AN NFL
PLAYER SHOULD BE ON THE VIDEO
GAME MADDEN.
Forrest Lamp & Matt Nord
Research Objective: Predicting Your
Players Position!
• In the video game Madden, gamers would like to know
which position best fits a certain NFL player based on
there physical attributes.
• By using two datasets from the Madden database and
the Rapid Miner data mining program, we are able to
predict which position each player is best at.
• We are using predictive analytics to build a model and a
decision tree that gives us information as to how that
position best suits a certain player.
Research Background
• We were interested to see if the position that an NFL
player plays in real life is the best suitable position for
them to play in the video game Madden.
• The dataset provides 48 different attributes that are used
and analyzed to predict which position that specific player
should be on the game.
• By looking at all of the players in the league, we will build
a model and use the model to build a decision tree to
learn more about the reasoning behind the position given.
Data Description:
• These datasets include information about all of the NFL
players and their physical features including speed, agility,
strength and many others attributes that relate to football.
• Number of Examples (Players): 1421
• Number of Attributes: 48
Conclusions
• After creating the decision tree and applying the model to the
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dataset without positions, Rapid Miner gave us the attribute of
play receiver as the first attribute to look at.
From there it looks at different attributes and has splits for each
attribute and a given rating to determine which position best
suits that player.
After looking at the model, we looked at each player and Rapid
Miner gave us confidence levels for each position they may
play.
The majority of the time Rapid Miner is correct when predicting
a player’s position.
This could be beneficial though because if you are playing
madden and your teams defensive end would be a better
middle linebacker then it would help your team to move him.
Madden is one of the most played video games and this
analysis could be useful to millions of gamers.