4 papers
Commanding the Foul Shot: A New Ensemble of Free Throw Metrics
Jake McGrath, Amanda Glazer, Vanna Bushong +2
With the NBA's adoption of in-game limb tracking in 2023, Sony's Hawk-Eye system now captures high-resolution, 3D poses of players and the ball 60 times per second. Linking these d…
Tractable Algorithms for Changepoint Detection in Player Performance Metrics
Amanda Glazer
We present a tractable framework for detecting changes in performance metrics and apply these methods to Major League Baseball (MLB) batting and pitching data from the 2023 and 202…
Dice, but don't slice: Optimizing the efficiency of ONEAudit
Jacob V Spertus, Amanda K Glazer, Philip B Stark
ONEAudit provides more efficient risk-limiting audits than other extant methods when the voting system cannot report a cast-vote record linked to each cast card. It obviates the ne…
More style, less work: card-style data decrease risk-limiting audit sample sizes
Amanda K. Glazer, Jacob V. Spertus, Philip B. Stark
U.S. elections rely heavily on computers such as voter registration databases, electronic pollbooks, voting machines, scanners, tabulators, and results reporting websites. These in…