# Tournament Test Type With NA Target

**URL:** <https://forum.numer.ai/t/tournament-test-type-with-na-target/2426>\
**Category:** Tournament\
**Created:** [March 18, 2021, 1:28am UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/tournament-test-type-with-na-target/2426 "2021-03-18T01:28:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![evanhennis](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/evanhennis/32/702_2.png) [@evanhennis](https://forum.numer.ai/u/evanhennis)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 1:28am UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/tournament-test-type-with-na-target/2426/1 "2021-03-18T01:28:45Z")

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I am digging through the data and I got to the part where I was going to use the tournament dataset to test my results. Well, all of the data\_type == ‘test’ records don’t have a target value. What is the reason for this subset? The ‘live’ set is what we turn in, right?

Sorry if this is dumb and I am missing something.

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**Author:** ![wigglemuse](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/wigglemuse/32/3094_2.png) [@wigglemuse](https://forum.numer.ai/u/wigglemuse)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 1:41am UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/tournament-test-type-with-na-target/2426/2 "2021-03-18T01:41:10Z")

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You “turn in” predictions for everything in the “tournament file” – validation, test, and live. Live is what you are scored on (live hasn’t happened yet). test is data for which Numerai has the targets but you don’t – for internal backtesting.

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**Author:** ![evanhennis](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/evanhennis/32/702_2.png) [@evanhennis](https://forum.numer.ai/u/evanhennis)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 1:54am UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/tournament-test-type-with-na-target/2426/3 "2021-03-18T01:54:38Z")

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Cool. Thanks for the info. That is going to be a large list.

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**Author:** ![gammarat](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/gammarat/32/3281_2.png) [@gammarat](https://forum.numer.ai/u/gammarat)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 2:44am UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/tournament-test-type-with-na-target/2426/4 "2021-03-18T02:44:52Z")

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> [@evanhennis](#):
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> Sorry if this is dumb and I am missing something.

Well, at least you’re in good company, I suffered from the same confusion just a few days ago, but @wigglemuse cleared me up.