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NFL Ghosts: A framework for evaluating defender positioning with conditional density estimation
Ronald Yurko, Quang Nguyen, Konstantinos Pelechrinis
Player attribution in American football remains an open problem due to the complex nature of twenty-two players interacting on the field, but the granularity of player tracking dat…
Fractional Tackles: Leveraging Player Tracking Data for Within-Play Tackling Evaluation in American Football
Quang Nguyen, Ruitong Jiang, Meg Ellingwood +1
Tackling is a fundamental defensive move in American football, with the main purpose of stopping the forward motion of the ball-carrier. However, current tackling metrics are manua…
Here Comes the STRAIN: Analyzing Defensive Pass Rush in American Football with Player Tracking Data
Quang Nguyen, Ronald Yurko, Gregory J. Matthews
In American football, a pass rush is an attempt by the defensive team to disrupt the offense and prevent the quarterback (QB) from completing a pass. Existing metrics for assessing…
TRAP: A Predictive Framework for Trail Running Assessment of Performance
Riccardo Fogliato, Natalia L. Oliveira, Ronald Yurko
Trail running is an endurance sport in which athletes face severe physical challenges. Due to the growing number of participants, the organization of limited staff, equipment, and…
Unsupervised Methods for Identifying Pass Coverage Among Defensive Backs with NFL Player Tracking Data
Rishav Dutta, Ronald Yurko, Samuel Ventura
Analysis of player tracking data for American football is in its infancy, since the National Football League (NFL) released its Next Gen Stats tracking data publicly for the first…
Going Deep: Models for Continuous-Time Within-Play Valuation of Game Outcomes in American Football with Tracking Data
Ronald Yurko, Francesca Matano, Lee F. Richardson +4
Continuous-time assessments of game outcomes in sports have become increasingly common in the last decade. In American football, only discrete-time estimates of play value were pos…
nflWAR: A Reproducible Method for Offensive Player Evaluation in Football
Ronald Yurko, Samuel Ventura, Maksim Horowitz
Unlike other major professional sports, American football lacks comprehensive statistical ratings for player evaluation that are both reproducible and easily interpretable in terms…