Predicting the Olympics

Stade de France; Chabe01, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons I had the pleasure of competing in the Royal Statistical Society&rsquo;s 2024 Olympics prediction contest. I also had the pleasure of winning! While I feel that my code is too messy to share at present and I lack the motivation to clean it up for public consumption, I did want to discuss at a high level my approach and lessons learned…