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	   Dataset: GR-SCBET-Y03Y07

	Soccer bets and teams DB from coupons
	    Greece, Aug.2003 - Mar.2007
 
	        Release Notes

	Copyright (c) 2016 by Harris V. Georgiou

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   Release:     Aug 3, 2016

   - Version:  1.1a
   - Format:   .xls
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accept the EULA/Terms-of-Use (please read carefully).

We welcome your comments and suggestions.

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WHAT'S IN THIS PACKAGE?

-  Overview
-  Available file formats
-  Files and Datasets
-  License Agreement

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OVERVIEW

Athletic betting and successful risk management is one of the most 
challenging tasks in Machine Learning and A.I. in general. With only
limited information and very sparsely distributed data, an algorithm
has to model the teams' competency and predict outcomes of games,
even when two teams face each other for the first time.

This package contains two main datasets, generated from soccer betting 
coupons in Greece throughout a 3.5 year period and including every
game that was included for any championship and any team. The first
dataset corresponds to 43.758 matches with complete odds, final result
and goals. The second is team-based statistics from these matches for
a total of 1.126 teams from various championships (European and other).

These datasets can be used as benchmark training sets for odds-oriented
or team-oriented predictive models and algorithms, relevant not only to
athletic betting but also other contexts, lile in in financial risk 
management. In the case of team-oriented modeling, special ELO-like
ranking algorithms can be developed and tested against the official
team/country rankings, as in UEFA and FIFA, but tailored to specific
teams or championships, in order to evaluate and fine-tune the models.

Note: Team names are in Greek, but they can be used as-is for proper
referencing to unique IDs, i.e., practically they can be ignored.

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AVAILABLE FILE FORMATS

The datasets are available in the following formats (included):

*.xls	: MS-Excel/LibreOffice worksheet data file (exportable)

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FILES AND DATASETS

Root folder:	GR-SCBET-Y03Y07\

Dataset 1:  "xls\couponsDB.xls"
		MS-Excel/LibreOffice worksheet format (exportable)
Dataset 2:  "xls\teamsDB.xls"
		MS-Excel/LibreOffice worksheet format (exportable)

	(Please refer to column headers for details on data contents).

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LICENSE AGREEMENT

This material was produced primarily for academic research and educational purposes. 
Downloading and using this material implies acceptance of the Creative Commons
License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (BY-NC-SA), 2016.
* http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Copyright (c) 2016 by Harris V. Georgiou (MSc,PhD) -- http://xgeorgio.info


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