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Official publication of ' #NFL ghosts: A framework for evaluating defender positioning with conditional density estimation' is now available in the Annals of Applied Statistics projecteuclid.org/journals/ann... #BigDataBowl #sportsanalytics #CMSAC

Check out the latest from Quang Nguyen in the #CMSAC research lab #sportsanalytics #NFL #BigDataBowl

Bayesian multilevel step-and-turn models for evaluating player movement in American football In sports analytics, player tracking data have driven significant advancements in the task of player evaluation. We present a novel generative framework for evaluating the observed frame-by-frame play...

New paper by myself & @stat-ron.bsky.social

arxiv.org/abs/2603.17866

We introduce a generative modeling framework to evaluate continuous-time player movement against a distribution of frame-level hypotheticals

#cmsac #nfl #bigdatabowl #sportsanalytics #ghosting

Great presentation at #CMSAC by Paul Nguyen about our recent work on modeling decathlon performance with @jsmoliga.bsky.social & Ben Lindaman

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We are 2 DAYS away from the #CMSAC in-person registration deadline! cmsaconference.com with the full schedule available here: cmsaconference.com/schedule-1 including this year's #ReproducibleResearch competition finalists! www.cmsaconference.com/research-com... #sportsanalytics #datascience

That's right folks, the in-person registration deadline for #CMSAC is this FRIDAY OCT 17TH!!! REGISTER NOW and reserve your spot for what should be a fantastic event www.cmsaconference.com

We'll be announcing the research competition finalists soon... #sportsanalytics #datascience #AI

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Submit your #sportsanalytics research abstracts by FRIDAY AUG 15TH for our annual #ReproducibleResearch Competition! www.cmsaconference.com/research-com...

Submit your work & please share with others (especially students) in your network! #CMSAC #statistics #datascience #sports #machinelearning

#CMSAC will in be full force at #NESSIS this September at Harvard!

Excited for #CMSAC at #NESSIS! www.nessis.org
+ PhD student Michele Sezgin's poster: Does furosemide make horses run faster?
+ @qntkhvn.bsky.social talk: #NFL change of direction arxiv.org/abs/2507.06122
+ Myself (w/ @recspecs730.bsky.social) talk: College Football Volatility #sportsanalytics

Check out the latest #CMSAC #sportsanalytics research w/ #BigDataBowl data by @qntkhvn.bsky.social on modeling #NFL player change of direction: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06122 this is a component of Quang's recent thesis proposal and I'm excited for more to come (he does all the work, I just opine)

New #CMSAC #SportsAnalytics paper on evaluating change of direction in the #NFL by myself and @stat-ron.bsky.social

arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06122

Spoiler alert: DK Metcalf displays straight-line, less agile movement, while George Pickens exhibits erratic, more variable directional movement.

Heading to Yale this week to lead a player tracking data workshop with #BigDataBowl data at CSAS 2025 statds.org/events/csas2...

Feel free to reach out and say hi if you’re there.

Happy to connect and chat about sports / stats / #cmsac / literally anything else

A multilevel model with heterogeneous variances for snap timing in the National Football League Player tracking data have provided great opportunities to generate novel insights into understudied areas of American football, such as pre-snap motion. Using a Bayesian multilevel model with heteroge...

New paper w/ @stat-ron.bsky.social on modeling snap timing variability in the NFL, building upon our recent #BigDataBowl entry. #CMSAC #sportsanalytics

Check out the preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2502.16313

AUEB SAW 2025: Sports Analytics Workshop & Conference 2025 This is the web-page of the 9th AUEB Sports Analytics Workshop (SAW2025) organized by AUEB Sports Analytics Group of the Department of Statistics of Athens of University of Economics and Business whic...

Excited to share that I'll be in Athens Greece May 5-6 to speak at the AUEB Sports Analytics Workshop & Conference! aueb-analytics.wixsite.com/saw2025 Looking forward to connecting w/ the international #sportsanalytics community, presenting #CMSAC #BigDataBowl research on modeling #NFL tackling

Congrats again to @qntkhvn.bsky.social and @abhiv05.bsky.social on their #BigDataBowl semi-finalist submissions! cmu.edu/news/stories...
+ Down, set, hut! kaggle.com/code/tindata...
+ Trench Chess kaggle.com/code/abhishe...
#sportsanalytics #NFL #datascience #CMSAC

Trench Chess: CMU Sophomore Uses NFL Data To Examine Pre-Snap Play Carnegie Mellon University sophomore Abhishek Varadarajan’s project “Trench Chess,” was named a semifinalist in NFL’s 2025 Big Data Bowl.

Check out this article on the latest #CMSAC #BigDataBowl work! cmu.edu/news/stories...
Big congrats to sophomore @abhiv05.bsky.social for his semi-finalist submission 'Trench Chess'! kaggle.com/code/abhishe...
And you can also read our predictions for the upcoming #SuperBowl

I'm heading to Indianapolis for the #NFL Combine & #BigDataBowl! I'll be there all day Wed Feb 26th, so please reach out if you're going! Happy to talk football analytics and all things related to the Carnegie Mellon #SportsAnalytics Center: stat.cmu.edu/cmsac #CMSAC

Congrats to everyone! And big congrats to the finalists - the Combine is an awesome experience that you won't forget! And big congrats to #CMSAC entries by @qntkhvn.bsky.social and @abhiv05.bsky.social for their semi-finalist finishes! #BigDataBowl

Excited to share more #NFL #BigDataBowl entries from #CMSAC this year, featuring:

🏈 CHASE: A New Metric for Receiver Spatial Impact kaggle.com/lauerjames/chase-a-new-metric-for-receiver-spatial-impact

🏈 Trench Chess: kaggle.com/abhishekvaradarajan/trench-chess

More details in the thread below ⬇️