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stat.AP2023★ 1 cited
Learning Risk Preferences in Markov Decision Processes: an Application to the Fourth Down Decision in the National Football League
Nathan Sandholtz, Lucas Wu, Martin Puterman +1
For decades, National Football League (NFL) coaches' observed fourth down decisions have been largely inconsistent with prescriptions based on statistical models. In this paper, we…
stat.AP2023★ 11 cited
Miss It Like Messi: Extracting Value from Off-Target Shots in Soccer
Ethan Baron, Nathan Sandholtz, Devin Pleuler +1
Measuring soccer shooting skill is a challenging analytics problem due to the scarcity and highly contextual nature of scoring events. The introduction of more advanced data surrou…