SPXS Sports Picks eXpert System

This paper presents a web based Sports Picks eXpert System (SPXS). The SPXS is an Expert System (ES) which knowledge is the database since 1990 of all the National Basketball Association (NBA) games and analysis of betting variables such as, against the spread points (ATS), total points line (TPL), difference of points; among others, from a team perspective. The SPXS try to mimic the sports handicappers, who give advice for selecting a specific team due to certain characteristics or properties of a game match. These virtual handicappers are represented as a knowledgedriven decision support system (DSS). Moreover, SPXS include an explanation of the logic behind the advice and transparency of the picking results. The system embeds several Artificial Intelligence (AI) prediction algorithms which represent different human handicapper experts, who have for priority different variables from the system, creating a group of experts competing for the best prediction results.