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Open Source Sports
Ron Yurko and Kostas Pelechrinis host the 'Open Source Sports' podcast to serve as a public reading group for discussing the latest research in sports analytics. Each episode focuses on a single paper featuring authors as guests, with discussions about the statistical methodology, relevance and futu...
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12 bölümA Statistical Model of Serve Return Impact Patterns in Professional Tennis with Stephanie Kovalchik
In this episode we talk to Stephanie Kovalchik about her paper 'A Statistical Model of Serve Return Impact Patterns in Professional Tennis' (co-author...
True Shot Charts with Justin Ehrlich and Shane Sanders
We discuss True Shot Charts with Syracuse University Professors Justin Ehrlich and Shane Sanders. For references mentioned in the show:
An Examination of Sport Climbing with Quang Nguyen
We discuss An Examination of Olympic Sport Climbing Competition Format and Scoring System with Quang Nguyen (@qntkhvn). This paper won the Carnegie Me...
Grinding the Mocks with Benjamin Robinson
We discuss Grinding the Bayes: A Hierarchical Modeling Approach to Predicting the NFL Draft with Benjamin Robinson (@benj_robinson). This paper was a...
Expected Hypothetical Completion Probability with Sameer Deshpande and Katherine Evans
We discuss a previous Big Data Bowl finalist paper `Expected Hypothetical Completion Probability` (https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.12337) with authors Same...
Bang the can slowly with Ryan Elmore and Gregory J. Matthews
We discuss Bang the Can Slowly: An Investigation into the 2017 Houston Astros with Ryan Elmore (@rtelmore) and Gregory J. Matthews (@StatsInTheWild)....
How often does the best team win with Michael Lopez
We discuss 'How often does the best team win? A unified approach to understanding randomness in North American sport' with Michael Lopez. Michael Lop...
Player Chemistry in Soccer with Lotte Bransen
We discuss 'Player Chemistry: Striving for a Perfectly Balanced Soccer Team' with Lotte Bransen. This paper builds on the VAEP framework previously in...
Models for hockey player ratings with Andrew Thomas and Sam Ventura
In the third episode of the show we discuss 'Competing process hazard function models for player ratings in ice hockey' with two guests, Andrew Thomas...
Rao-Blackwellizing FG% with Daniel Daly-Grafstein
In the second episode we discuss two papers by our guest Daniel Daly-Grafstein and Luke Bornn: Rao-Blackwellizing field goal percentage (published in...
openWAR with Gregory J. Matthews
In the first official Open Source Sports podcast episode, we discuss openWAR (available on arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.7158 and JQAS ) with autho...
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Ron Yurko and Kostas Pelechrinis host the 'Open Source Sports' podcast to serve as a public reading group for discussing the latest research from spor...