American football is one of the hardest sports to predict in the world. There is an astounding range of factors which determine the outcome of each game - including player statistics, weather, stadium environment, etc. Being able to accurately predict NFL games has huge implications with regard to betting, sports management, sports analytics, etc.
The question: Given any matchup of two teams on a given week, can we predict the winner correctly?
Because of the nature of NFL games, the best predictors only perform at about 72% accuracy. As such, our goal was to get as close to that figure as possible, hopefully within 5% of it.