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Football Match

The document outlines a systematic approach to analyzing football match data, including importing libraries, preprocessing date and time, defining metrics, and creating features based on recent match performance. It details the implementation of functions to calculate metrics for home and away teams over defined intervals and the saving of the enhanced dataset for further analysis. The resulting dataset is aimed at improving predictive modeling and decision-making in football data analysis.

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Football Match

The document outlines a systematic approach to analyzing football match data, including importing libraries, preprocessing date and time, defining metrics, and creating features based on recent match performance. It details the implementation of functions to calculate metrics for home and away teams over defined intervals and the saving of the enhanced dataset for further analysis. The resulting dataset is aimed at improving predictive modeling and decision-making in football data analysis.

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Football Match Data Analysis and Feature Crea on

Steps in the Approach

1. Impor ng Required Libraries and Data Inspec on

o Imported essen al libraries like numpy and pandas for data manipula on.

o Loaded the dataset using pandas.read_excel() for further processing.

o Used .info() to inspect the dataset structure, column types, and missing values.

2. Date and Time Preprocessing and Sor ng the data

o Converted the Date column to date me format for consistency using pd.to_date me().

o Filled missing values in the Time column with a default value of '00:00:00' to avoid errors in
combining date and me.

o Converted the Time column to string format and merged it with the Date column to form a unified
mestamp.

o The dataset was sorted by the Date column to ensure chronological order for calcula ng past
match performance.

3. Defining Metrics

o A dic onary named metrics was created to group related columns for both home and away teams.
Example:

 Goals (FTHG, FTAG)

 Shots (HS, AS)

 Fouls (HF, AF), etc.

4. Match Intervals

o Defined intervals [5, 15, 38] to represent the number of recent matches considered for feature
calcula ons.

 5: Short-term performance

 15: Medium-term performance

 38: Long-term performance (e.g., a full league season)

5. Feature Crea on Func onality

o Designed a func on calculate_last_n_matches() to compute the aggregate of a specific metric for


a given team over the last N matches before a given date.

o A helper func on create_features() was developed to iterate over each match, calculate metrics
for the defined intervals, and add the results as new columns to the dataset.

o The calcula ons were segregated for home and away matches to capture team performance in
both scenarios.
6. Implementa on Workflow

o Iterated through each row in the dataset to calculate and assign metrics for each team’s
performance over the past N matches for all defined intervals and metrics.

o Added the new columns dynamically to the dataset.

7. Saving the Enhanced Dataset

o The manipulated dataset with the new features was saved as a CSV file named
'manipulated_data.csv' using .to_csv() for further use in analysis or machine learning tasks.

Conclusion

This approach preprocesses and enriches the football match dataset by adding insigh ul historical performance
features for each team. The resul ng dataset can be used for predic ve modeling , enabling be er decision-
making and strategy development in football data analysis.

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