{
  "id": 147523,
  "title": "Wrapping up a weird edition",
  "url": "/competitions/march-madness-analytics-2020/discussion/147523",
  "author_name": "Luca Basanisi",
  "post_date": "2020-04-30T22:10:51.518000",
  "votes": 2,
  "comment_count": 0,
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  "content": "<p>Hi everyone, \nin the final minutes of the competition, I would like to thank the organizers for the opportunity of measuring ourselves against a different type of competition. The disappointment for not seeing March Madness this year soon faded away in front of the worldwide situation and this competition helped a lot in being a nice distraction.</p>\n\n<p>My submission, <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/lucabasa/quantify-the-madness-a-study-of-competitiveness\">https://www.kaggle.com/lucabasa/quantify-the-madness-a-study-of-competitiveness</a> , takes inspiration from the description of the competition. I decided to study how data can describe how a basketball game can be competitive and how Machine Learning can help us in defining a score for competitiveness. </p>\n\n<p>It has been a lot of fun, especially when the model started challenging my initial intuition and presented a score that was more reasonable than that intuition. I hope you will enjoy my result too.</p>\n\n<p>I am now reading all the other submission and I feel so lucky to be in a community that helps me learn so much.</p>\n\n<p>Cheers</p>",
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      "postDate": "2020-04-30T22:10:51.517Z",
      "content": "<p>Hi everyone, \nin the final minutes of the competition, I would like to thank the organizers for the opportunity of measuring ourselves against a different type of competition. The disappointment for not seeing March Madness this year soon faded away in front of the worldwide situation and this competition helped a lot in being a nice distraction.</p>\n\n<p>My submission, <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/lucabasa/quantify-the-madness-a-study-of-competitiveness\">https://www.kaggle.com/lucabasa/quantify-the-madness-a-study-of-competitiveness</a> , takes inspiration from the description of the competition. I decided to study how data can describe how a basketball game can be competitive and how Machine Learning can help us in defining a score for competitiveness. </p>\n\n<p>It has been a lot of fun, especially when the model started challenging my initial intuition and presented a score that was more reasonable than that intuition. I hope you will enjoy my result too.</p>\n\n<p>I am now reading all the other submission and I feel so lucky to be in a community that helps me learn so much.</p>\n\n<p>Cheers</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi everyone, \nin the final minutes of the competition, I would like to thank the organizers for the opportunity of measuring ourselves against a different type of competition. The disappointment for not seeing March Madness this year soon faded away in front of the worldwide situation and this competition helped a lot in being a nice distraction.\n\nMy submission, https://www.kaggle.com/lucabasa/quantify-the-madness-a-study-of-competitiveness , takes inspiration from the description of the competition. I decided to study how data can describe how a basketball game can be competitive and how Machine Learning can help us in defining a score for competitiveness. \n\nIt has been a lot of fun, especially when the model started challenging my initial intuition and presented a score that was more reasonable than that intuition. I hope you will enjoy my result too.\n\nI am now reading all the other submission and I feel so lucky to be in a community that helps me learn so much.\n\nCheers",
      "votes": 2
    }
  ],
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  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "828303": "Hi everyone, \nin the final minutes of the competition, I would like to thank the organizers for the opportunity of measuring ourselves against a different type of competition. The disappointment for not seeing March Madness this year soon faded away in front of the worldwide situation and this competition helped a lot in being a nice distraction.\n\nMy submission, https://www.kaggle.com/lucabasa/quantify-the-madness-a-study-of-competitiveness , takes inspiration from the description of the competition. I decided to study how data can describe how a basketball game can be competitive and how Machine Learning can help us in defining a score for competitiveness. \n\nIt has been a lot of fun, especially when the model started challenging my initial intuition and presented a score that was more reasonable than that intuition. I hope you will enjoy my result too.\n\nI am now reading all the other submission and I feel so lucky to be in a community that helps me learn so much.\n\nCheers"
  }
}