Project Yellow Cricket: Fantasy hockey data analysis and pattern recognition

Officepools.com is a flagship product of GSL Group, acquired in 1999. The site is an online fantasy sports platform offering various sporting and entertainment events to choose from, such as football and golf, but primarily specializing in the National Hockey League (NHL).
Officepools.com has a userbase of around six hundred and fifty thousand people, with the majority of users being male aged 30 to 50 years and located in Canada. Yellow Cricket is a project that analyzes hockey data gathered from Officepools.com.
The project’s objectives are the following:
• Understand and analyze existing data and its outcome
• Analyze trends and data to predict players’ performance
• Predict hockey team’s placement in the standings at the end of season
• Understand how and where else within the business to use the analysis

Faculty Supervisor:

Jiannan Wang

Student:

Shiying Tu

Partner:

GSL Holdings

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University