Decoding and demystifying football

Mark Thompson

Research in Focus: Ghosting

Hoang M. Le, Peter Carr, Yisong Yue, Patrick Lucey, 'Data-driven Ghosting using Deep Imitation Learning' [Presented at the 2017 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (link) and in a slightly different form at the 34th International Conference on Machine Learning (link)] Why it's worth your time '

Research in Focus: Deep reinforcement learning decision-making

Pegah Rahimian, Jan Van Haaren, Togzhan Abzhanova, Laszlo Toka, 'Beyond action valuation: A deep reinforcement learning framework for optimizing player decisions in soccer' [Presented at the 2022 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (link)] Why it's worth your time Research into decision-making is always interesting, and is

The Stats Perform Pro Forum 2022

The Stats Perform Pro Forum is the analytics conference for the dreamers. Started nearly a decade ago as a place for hobbyist stats-watchers to meet and present ideas, it's still fundamentally a party organised by a data provider who gift amateurs with interesting ideas the means to explore

Two experiments for the price of one

What is science if not experimentation persevering. We're going to have two experiments today. The first is a format of piece that I want to try out, which I'm calling 'Research in Focus'. Papers and presentations (the formats that big research tends to be

Research in Focus: Karun Singh's Expected Threat

[Link here] Why it's worth your time There are precious few pieces of work that have both an immediate and a long-lasting impact like this one. People still talk about Expected Threat, and the blog is still linked to by others, from The Athletic to academic research papers.

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