Okay, here’s my shot at sharing my experience with a “gauff/pegula doubles prediction,” keeping it real and straightforward:
Alright, so I got roped into this whole gauff/pegula doubles prediction thing. Honestly, I’m not some tennis expert, but a buddy of mine is super into it and wanted to see if we could use some basic data to make a call. I figured, why not? Something to kill time, right?
First thing I did was just google “gauff pegula doubles stats.” Dug around a bit, found a bunch of sites with match histories, win percentages, that kind of stuff. Nothing too fancy, just basic numbers. I wanted to see their head-to-head record against other teams, especially recent matches.
Data Gathering:
- Started grabbing data from a few different sports news sites. ESPN, some random tennis stats sites… honestly, whoever had the numbers I needed.
- Looked at their performance in the last few tournaments. Were they on a hot streak? Had they been losing a lot? Obvious stuff.
- Also tried to see if there was any info on their opponents. Weaknesses, strengths, recent performance, the works.
After I collected the data I used python to clean it up. I found a library called Pandas which allowed me to easily read in the data and manipulate it. After I cleaned the data I just ran some calculations on it to determine each teams winrate over the last 10 matches and used that as an estimator to tell me who I should pick. Honestly, it was a really quick and dirty way to get an answer to my friend and should not be taken as a serious analysis.
My “prediction”? Based on the recent data, I told my buddy that Gauff and Pegula had a slightly higher chance of winning. No guarantees, of course! And honestly, I told him not to bet the house on it. It was a fun little project.
Takeaways:
- This wasn’t some super scientific thing. Just basic data gathering and some quick calculations.
- Tennis is unpredictable. Anyone can have a bad day. Stats only tell you so much.
- Don’t take betting advice from a random dude who googled some tennis stats.
