TFLearn VS xgboost

TFLearn – Deep learning library featuring a higher-level API for TensorFlow

Both the teams in a game are given their individual ID values and are made into vectors. Relevant data like the home and away team, home runs, RBI’s, and walk’s are all taken into account and passed through layers. There’s no need to reinvent the wheel here, there's a multitude of libraries that enable a coder to implement machine learning theories efficiently. In this case we will be using a library called TFlearn, documentation available from http://tflearn.org. The program will output the home and away teams as well as their respective score predictions.

Finally, when it comes to building models and making predictions, Python and R have a plethora of options available. Libraries like scikit-learn, statsmodels, and TensorFlowin Python, or caret, randomForest, and xgboostin R, provide powerful machine learning algorithms and statistical models that can be applied to a wide range of problems. What's more, these libraries are open-source and have extensive documentation and community support, making it easy to learn and apply new techniques without needing specialized training or expensive software licenses.

You can find the problem outlined here: https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/issues/5826. u/hcho3 diagnosed the problem and corrected it as of XGB version 1.2.0.

Reference: https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/issues/2031

By the way, most of the time XGBoost works just as well for projects, would not recommend applying deep learning to every single problem you come across, it's something Stanford CS really likes to showcase when it's well known (1) that sometimes "smaller"/less complex models can perform just as well or have their own interpretive advantages and (2) it is well known within ML and DS communities that deep learning does not perform as well with tabular datasets and using deep learning as a default to every problem is just poor practice. However, if you do (god forbid) get language, speech/audio, vision/imaging, or even time series models then deep learning as a baseline is not the worst idea.