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Implicit Biases in Refereeing: Lessons from NBA Referees
Konstantinos Pelechrinis
Implicit biases occur automatically and unintentionally and are particularly present when we have to make split second decisions. One such situations appears in refereeing, where r…
The Anatomy of Corner 3s in the NBA: What makes them efficient, how are they generated and how can defenses respond?
Konstantinos Pelechrinis, Kirk Goldsberry
Modern basketball is all about creating efficient shots, that is, shots with high payoff. This is not necessarily equivalent to creating looks with the highest probability of succe…
Effectiveness and Compliance to Social Distancing During COVID-19
Kristi Bushman, Konstantinos Pelechrinis, Alexandros Labrinidis
In the absence of pharmaceutical interventions to curb the spread of COVID-19, countries relied on a number of nonpharmaceutical interventions to fight the first wave of the pandem…
The Hot Hand in Actual Game Situations
Konstantinos Pelechrinis, Wayne Winston
Streaks of success have always fascinated people and a lot of research has been conducted to identify whether the "hot hand" effect is real. While sports have provided an appropria…
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…
DeepHoops: Evaluating Micro-Actions in Basketball Using Deep Feature Representations of Spatio-Temporal Data
Anthony Sicilia, Konstantinos Pelechrinis, Kirk Goldsberry
How much is an on-ball screen worth? How much is a backdoor cut away from the ball worth? Basketball is one of a number of sports which, within the past decade, have seen an explos…
A Data-Driven Approach for Assessing Biking Safety in Cities
Sara Daraei, Konstantinos Pelechrinis, Daniele Quercia
With the focus that cities around the world have put on sustainable transportation during the past few years, biking has become one of the foci for local governments around the wor…
A Skellam Regression Model for Quantifying Positional Value in Soccer
Konstantinos Pelechrinis, Wayne Winston
Soccer is undeniably the most popular sport world-wide and everyone from general managers and coaching staff to fans and media are interested in evaluating players' performance. Me…
LinNet: Probabilistic Lineup Evaluation Through Network Embedding
Konstantinos Pelechrinis
Which of your team's possible lineups has the best chances against each of your opponents possible lineups? In order to answer this question we develop LinNet. LinNet exploits the…
iWinRNFL: A Simple, Interpretable & Well-Calibrated In-Game Win Probability Model for NFL
Konstantinos Pelechrinis
During the last few sports seasons a lot of discussion has been generated for the several, high-profile, "comebacks" that were observed in almost all sports. The Cavaliers won the…
The Anatomy of the Three-Point Shot: Spatial Bias, Fractals and the Three-Point Line in the NBA
Konstantinos Pelechrinis
Even though it might have taken some time, the three-point line ultimately changed the way the game is played as evidenced by the increase in the three-point shot attempts over the…
Footballonomics: The Anatomy of American Football; Evidence from 7 years of NFL game data
Konstantinos Pelechrinis, Evangelos Papalexakis
Do NFL teams make rational decisions? What factors potentially affect the probability of wining a game in NFL? How can a team come back from a demoralizing interception? In this st…