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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…
Big Ideas in Sports Analytics and Statistical Tools for their Investigation
Benjamin S. Baumer, Gregory J. Matthews, Quang Nguyen
Sports analytics -- broadly defined as the pursuit of improvement in athletic performance through the analysis of data -- has expanded its footprint both in the professional sports…
Confidence intervals for the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve in the presence of ignorable missing data
Hunyong Cho, Gregory J. Matthews, Ofer Harel
Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves are widely used as a measure of accuracy of diagnostic tests and can be summarized using the area under the ROC curve (AUC). Often, i…
A comparison of machine learning techniques for taxonomic classification of teeth from the Family Bovidae
Gregory J Matthews, Juliet K. Brophy, Maxwell P. Luetkemeier +2
This study explores the performance of modern, accurate machine learning algorithms on the classification of fossil teeth in the Family Bovidae. Isolated bovid teeth are typically…
How often does the best team win? A unified approach to understanding randomness in North American sport
Michael J. Lopez, Gregory J. Matthews, Benjamin S. Baumer
Statistical applications in sports have long centered on how to best separate signal (e.g. team talent) from random noise. However, most of this work has concentrated on a single s…
Building an NCAA mens basketball predictive model and quantifying its success
Michael J. Lopez, Gregory Matthews
The old adage says that it is better to be lucky than to be good, but when it comes to winning NCAA tournament pools, do you need to be both? This paper attempts to answer this que…
openWAR: An Open Source System for Evaluating Overall Player Performance in Major League Baseball
Benjamin S. Baumer, Shane T. Jensen, Gregory J. Matthews
Within baseball analytics, there is substantial interest in comprehensive statistics intended to capture overall player performance. One such measure is Wins Above Replacement (WAR…