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Estimating locomotor demands during team play from broadcast-derived tracking data
Jacob Mortensen, Luke Bornn
The introduction of optical tracking data across sports has given rise to the ability to dissect athletic performance at a level unfathomable a decade ago. One specific area that h…
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…
Home Sweet Home: Quantifying Home Court Advantages For NCAA Basketball Statistics
Matthew van Bommel, Luke Bornn, Peter Chow-White +1
Box score statistics are the baseline measures of performance for National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball. Between the 2011-2012 and 2015-2016 seasons, NCAA team…
Using In-Game Shot Trajectories to Better Understand Defensive Impact in the NBA
Luke Bornn, Daniel Daly-Grafstein
As 3-point shooting in the NBA continues to increase, the importance of perimeter defense has never been greater. Perimeter defenders are often evaluated by their ability to tightl…
Winning Is Not Everything: A contextual analysis of hockey face-offs
Nick Czuzoj-Shulman, David Yu, Christopher Boucher +2
This paper takes a different approach to evaluating face-offs in ice hockey. Instead of looking at win percentages, the de facto measure of successful face-off takers for decades,…
Playing Fast Not Loose: Evaluating team-level pace of play in ice hockey using spatio-temporal possession data
David Yu, Christopher Boucher, Luke Bornn +1
Pace of play is an important characteristic in hockey as well as other team sports. We provide the first comprehensive study of pace within the sport of hockey, focusing on how tea…