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  "title": "Can we add previous year tourney results as feature ?",
  "url": "/competitions/google-cloud-ncaa-march-madness-2020-division-1-mens-tournament/discussion/134423",
  "author_name": "Ryota",
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  "content": "<p>For example, when I predict 2019 tourney results, can I use 2018 tourney result score as feature?\n(predict 2018  result : use 2017 tourney score ・・・・・・・)</p>\n\n<p>Please tell me if this is possible.</p>",
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      "content": "<p>For sure you may try. If you avoided data leaking, it would be working. I've tried this feature for some baseline's models like GBM but it hasn't improved model. The possible reason behind it is colleges teams squad might change regularly and most likely team Duke won't be as strong as it was last year with Zion. Nevertheless, i can be wrong.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "For sure you may try. If you avoided data leaking, it would be working. I've tried this feature for some baseline's models like GBM but it hasn't improved model. The possible reason behind it is colleges teams squad might change regularly and most likely team Duke won't be as strong as it was last year with Zion. Nevertheless, i can be wrong.",
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      "content": "<p>For sure you may try. If you avoided data leaking, it would be working. I've tried this feature for some baseline's models like GBM but it hasn't improved model. The possible reason behind it is colleges teams squad might change regularly and most likely team Duke won't be as strong as it was last year with Zion. Nevertheless, i can be wrong.</p>",
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    "766530": "For sure you may try. If you avoided data leaking, it would be working. I've tried this feature for some baseline's models like GBM but it hasn't improved model. The possible reason behind it is colleges teams squad might change regularly and most likely team Duke won't be as strong as it was last year with Zion. Nevertheless, i can be wrong.",
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