Model Interpretation (Sports)

Overview

Explain model behavior after evaluation — never instead of evaluation.

Interpretation answers:

• what the model relies on
• where it fails
• whether failures concentrate (season, home/away, probability tails)
• whether the story is stable enough to put in a model card

It does not turn a losing walk-forward into a win.

Work from held-out prediction tables, fold summaries, and model-specific coefficient or importance artifacts.