RESEARCH: Using Decision trees for breakouts
Feb 13 2020
Every fantasy owner is always looking for the breakout and bust hitters—and I’m no exception. While taking a course in the computer language R, one section was on Decision Trees, and I felt like it could possibly provide some insight to finding hitters to target and avoid. The following is an attempt to find such hitters with some obvious success.
A few huge caveats to start out with. I’m not even close to being an expert in R and the inner workings of decision trees. While I found them useful for this subject, others are going to know more—a lot more. I feel I’m at that point of knowing "just enough" to be dangerous.
What a decision tree does is to take a group of inputs and groups them to a set variable. For example, here is a tree to...
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