3 papers
stat.AP2026
Stated, Realized, and Optimal Aiming Strategies for the Tennis Serve: Experimental Evidence from Collegiate Athletes
Nathan Sandholtz, Ryan Hanson, Ron Hager +2
We study where, within a chosen Wide or T region, a tennis player should aim a serve. Aiming near a service-box boundary makes a serve harder to return but raises the probability o…
stat.AP2019
Measuring Spatial Allocative Efficiency in Basketball
Nathan Sandholtz, Jacob Mortensen, Luke Bornn
Every shot in basketball has an opportunity cost; one player's shot eliminates all potential opportunities from their teammates for that play. For this reason, player-shot efficien…
stat.AP2018
Markov Decision Processes with Dynamic Transition Probabilities: An Analysis of Shooting Strategies in Basketball
Nathan Sandholtz, Luke Bornn
In this paper we model basketball plays as episodes from team-specific non-stationary Markov decision processes (MDPs) with shot clock dependent transition probabilities. Bayesian…