Using Graph Theory and KNIME Analytics Platform to Predict the EURO 2024 Outcome - Martin D Aus A
... All joking aside — over the past years I’ve used opportunities like this to learn about approaches to predict outcomes and tried them out eventually with more successes than fails when it comes to my placement in different leagues. This time it is no different — what is different though is the approach I am taking. I came across this blog post on the usage of graph theory to make 2022 World Cup predictions. The blog post shows how the connections between different football clubs and national teams (in terms of how many players of certain clubs are selected for different national teams) was used to create a network graph. For the relationships in that network graph the “eigenvector centrality” was determined for every national team to establish a ranking. For the 2018 World cup, applying this method, out of the top 5 teams with the highest eigenvector centrality, 3 ultimately made it into the semi-finals, and France as the highest ranked team won the tournament. For 2022, out of th...