Week 5 · Day 5 — WEEKLY PROJECT: Match Outcome Predictor

Theme: Machine Learning Tryouts 🤖⚽ Time: ~90-120 minutes Type: Build day — everything comes together Goal: Full ML pipeline from raw data to saved model to predictions on upcoming fixtures

Project Brief

You're the data scientist for a fictional analytics firm. A Premier League club has hired you to build a match outcome prediction system. They want:

1. A model trained on historical Premier League data
2. Evaluation metrics that prove it actually works
3. The saved model file, ready to deploy
4. Predictions on the next 5 upcoming fixtures

By the end of today, you'll have all four.