Guide to Building a College Basketball Machine Learning Model in Python

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I had some free time and stumbled upon a great Python public API created by Robert Clark. The API allows users to pull about any statistic for major American sports very easily from sports-reference.com. Often the hardest part of any data science work is gathering and cleaning data. While some work still has to be done, I'm naturally attracted to any project where the hardest parts have been made easy. My goal is to quickly create a model that will approach the quality of well-known publicly available systems.