Why You Should Have Genes in Your Ensemble

Over on the MAFL Wagers & Tips blog I've been introducing the updated versions of the Heuristics, in this post and in this post. I've shown there that these heuristics are, individually, at least moderately adept at predicting historical AFL outcomes. All told, there are eleven heuristics, comfortably enough to form an ensemble, so in the spirit of the previous entry in MAFL Statistical Analyses, the question must be asked: can I find a subset of the heuristics which, collectively, using a majority voting scheme, tips better than any one of them alone?
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