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Estimating the age-conditioned average treatment effects curves: An application for assessing load-management strategies in the NBA
Shinpei Nakamura-Sakai, Laura Forastiere, Brian Macdonald
In the realm of competitive sports, understanding the performance dynamics of athletes, represented by the age curve (showing progression, peak, and decline), is vital. Our researc…
What does not get observed can be used to make age curves stronger: estimating player age curves using regression and imputation
Michael Schuckers, Michael Lopez, Brian Macdonald
The impact of player age on performance has received attention across sport. Most research has focused on the performance of players at each age, ignoring the reality that age like…
Accounting for Rink Effects in the National Hockey League's Real Time Scoring System
Michael Schuckers, Brian Macdonald
Recording of events in National Hockey League rinks is done through the Real Time Scoring System. This system records events such as hits, shots, faceoffs, etc., as part of the pla…
Quantifying playmaking ability in hockey
Brian Macdonald, Christopher Weld, David C. Arney
It is often said that a sign of a great player is that he makes the players around him better. The player may or may not score much himself, but his teammates perform better when h…
Realignment in the NHL, MLB, the NFL, and the NBA
Brian Macdonald, William Pulleyblank
Sports leagues consist of conferences subdivided into divisions. Teams play a number of games within their divisions and fewer games against teams in different divisions and confer…
Evaluating NHL Goalies, Skaters, and Teams Using Weighted Shots
Brian Macdonald, Craig Lennon, Rodney Sturdivant
In this paper, we develop a logistic regression model to estimate the probability that a particular shot in an NHL game will result in a goal, and use the results to evaluate the p…
Adjusted Plus-Minus for NHL Players using Ridge Regression with Goals, Shots, Fenwick, and Corsi
Brian Macdonald
Regression-based adjusted plus-minus statistics were developed in basketball and have recently come to hockey. The purpose of these statistics is to provide an estimate of each pla…