1. SOCCER ANALYTICS: AN EXAMINATION OF CURRENT APPROACHES FOR GAME OUTCOME PREDICTION AND THE POTENTIAL OF DEEP LEARNING WITH ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS Open Access Author: Gomez Lorente, Juan Title: SOCCER ANALYTICS: AN EXAMINATION OF CURRENT APPROACHES FOR GAME OUTCOME PREDICTION AND THE POTENTIAL OF DEEP LEARNING WITH ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS Area of Honors: Industrial Engineering Keywords: Machine LearningDeep LearningNeural NetworksArtificial Neural NetworksPoisson RegressionSoccerSports AnalyticsBettingPredictive ModellingMoneyball AnalyticsSoftMax ClassifierRegressioneffects encodingfeed-forward networksbackpropagationgradient descentresilient backpropagationNewton's MethodTaylor Series expansionManhattan RuleBroyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno algorithmBFGSQuasi-Newton Methods File: Download Juan_GomezLorente.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Hui Yang, Thesis SupervisorDr. Catherine Mary Harmonosky, Thesis Honors Advisor
2. Assessing the Viability of NBA Betting as a Financial Asset Class Using Predictive Modeling Open Access Author: Scalise, Anthony Title: Assessing the Viability of NBA Betting as a Financial Asset Class Using Predictive Modeling Area of Honors: Finance Keywords: InvestingGamblingPredictive ModelingNBABettingSharpe RatioBehavioralTechnicalFundamentalAsset ClassPortfolioMarketBehavioral FinanceStock MarketBiasLiquidityNoiseInefficiencies File: Download ASSESSING_THE_VIABILITY_OF_NBA_BETTING_AS_A_FINANCIAL_ASSET_CLASS_USING_PREDICTIVE_MODELING_-_ANTHONY_SCALISE.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Christoph Hinkelmann, Thesis SupervisorBrian Spangler Davis, Thesis Honors Advisor
3. Modern Portfolio Theory in NFL Moneylines Open Access Author: Baloh, Francis Title: Modern Portfolio Theory in NFL Moneylines Area of Honors: Finance Keywords: NFLMoneylinesSports GamblingBettingModern Portfolio Theory File: Download FrancisEdwardBalohThesisFinalSubmission.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Robert Alexander Novack, Thesis SupervisorBrian Spangler Davis, Thesis Honors Advisor
4. Beating Vegas By Predicting The 2022 NCAA Mens Division I College Basketball Tournament Using Neural Networks Restricted (Penn State Only) Author: Bixler, Brian Title: Beating Vegas By Predicting The 2022 NCAA Mens Division I College Basketball Tournament Using Neural Networks Area of Honors: Mathematics Keywords: SportsbettingSportsBettingDeep Neural NetworkDNNNCAACollegeBasketballAlgorithmPython File: Login to Download Thesis Supervisors: Jessica Maral Conway, Thesis SupervisorLudmil Tomov Zikatanov, Thesis Honors Advisor