4 papers
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…