The KODE team, a sports analysis club made up of undergraduate students from Kookmin University's College of Physical Education, won the grand prize for the second consecutive year at the National College Student Data Analysis Competition held by the Seoul Olympic Memorial KSPO Keirin and Keijo General Division. KODE won the grand prize in the 2023 “Kyungryun” data analysis competition, and this year in 2024, it won the grand prize in the “Kyungjeong” data analysis competition, setting an unprecedented record.

This competition was participated by 32 universities including Konkuk University, Korea University, Kookmin University, Seoul National University, Yonsei University, Inha University, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, and Hanyang University, and our university's sports analysis club KODE team participated with four members: Moon Kyu-rim (team leader, Department of Sports Health and Rehabilitation), Lim Jae-woong (Department of Sports Industry and Leisure), Jung In-hyeok (Department of Sports Industry and Leisure), and Kim Jong-hyun (Department of Sports Health and Rehabilitation).

In this competition, KODE participants collected and analyzed data for a month from last August to seek data collection and preprocessing methods, data analysis processes, and model design and investment strategy design. Afterwards, they used the mileage points provided through the Speedon app for three weeks to predict the results by betting under an appropriate investment strategy.

In the above process, the KODE team developed its own DeepWave prediction model based on the Gradient Boosting Classifier (GBC) and Light Gradient Boosting Machine (Light GBM) prediction models to derive results. As a result, the team achieved a high hit rate, model completeness, and investment strategy, and won the grand prize (first place overall). They were awarded the Chairman's Award from the Korea Sports Promotion Foundation and a prize of 2 million won.

The sports analytics club KODE, which started in 2022, is composed of graduate students from the Sports Analytics Research Lab at the Korea National Sport University and undergraduate students from the Department of Sports Health and Rehabilitation and the Department of Sports Industry and Leisure. The club has grown into an academic club that conducts various sports analytics projects, including sports game analysis and sports data analysis learning, with 12 members, including Park Min-sang, Park Min-woo, Yoo Da-hyun, Hwang Seung-min (Department of Sports Health and Rehabilitation) and Kim Tae-yoon, Son Cha-woo, Lim Kwon-jae, Han Ji-won (Department of Sports Industry and Leisure).

KODE is working with Professor Lee Mi-young of the Department of Sports Health and Rehabilitation, Dr. Kim Jong-won and analyst Lee Sang-min of Bepro11, a world-class Korean soccer analysis company headquartered in the UK, and graduate students of the Department of Sports Analytics.