For this blog, I will be discussing how 538’s baseball prediction works. Team Ratings First, they start with creating Team Rankings. To do this they collected game results and box scores going all the way back to 1871. They used data to create an Elo-based rating system and predictive model for baseball…

What’s a function? In Python, a function is a group of related statements that perform a specific task. A parameter is the variable listed inside the parentheses in the function definition. An argument is the value that is sent to the function when it is called. Main components of a function Keyword def that marks…

What is a List? Lists are collections of data that are surrounded by brackets [ ] and each item in the list is separated by commas. What can be in a list? Strings, numbers, booleans, even other lists can be items in a list. Lists are ordered and mutable (changeable). This means that lists can be sorted and changed. …