Lecture 9

2025-07-07

Paper Presentations

• Does confirmation bias exist in judged events at the Olympic Games?

• NHL Aging Curves Using Functional Principal Component Analysis

• Beating the market betting on NHL hockey games

• Winning and losing streaks in the National Hockey League: are teams experiencing momentum or are games a sequence of random events?

• Optical tracking in team sports : A survey on player and ball tracking methods in soccer and other team sports

Paper Presentations

• Ludometrics: Luck, and how to measure it

• Jumping on the bandwagon? Attendance response to recent victories in the NBA

• Expected goals under a Bayesian viewpoint: uncertainty quantification and online learning.

• Improving NHL draft outcome predictions using scouting reports

Paper Presentations

• Quantifying the impact of imbalanced groups in FIFA Women’s World Cup tournaments 1991–2019

• Success factors in national team football: an analysis of the UEFA EURO 2020

• Unsupervised methods for identifying pass coverage among defensive backs with NFL player tracking data

• Searching for the GOAT of tennis win prediction

Next Up

• Module 4: Web Applications and Dashboards
  • Mastering Shiny: 1-6
    • Python code
• Final Project Proposal: Due July 14 @ 11 AM on Crowdmark