Archive - Statistical Thinking in Sports Analytics

Down, set, hut!

Explaining variability in snap timing on plays with motion

Dec 13 •

July 2024

CMSACamp: Data Science in Sports Analytics

Jul 30 •

June 2024

Statistical Thinking in Sports Analytics

A brief overview of my recent experience teaching a sports analytics methods course

Jun 20 •

January 2024

'Tis the Big Data Bowl season

Thanks to Mike Lopez and others in the NFL league office, the NFL’s Big Data Bowl has evolved into an annual opportunity for anyone to contribute to the…

Jan 9 •

October 2023

Here comes the STRAIN and CMSAC

Well I’m behind on this newsletter due to the busy semester… but this post will share recent news within the CMSAC network:

Oct 11, 2023 •

July 2023

CMSACamp: Data Science in Sports Analytics

Jul 29, 2023 •

Careful Clustering of Soccer Players

Jul 7, 2023 •

Welcome to Open Source Sports!

Jul 3, 2023 •

August 2022

A 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-authored…

Aug 23, 2022 •

1:05:40

June 2022

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:

Jun 23, 2022 •

58:00

May 2022

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).

May 18, 2022 •

59:50

August 2021

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).

Aug 24, 2021 •

1:05:53

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