Podcasts by Open Source Sports
Ron Yurko and Kostas Pelechrinis host the 'Open Source Sports' podcast to serve as a public reading group for discussing the latest research in sports analytics. Each episode focuses on a single paper featuring authors as guests, with discussions about the statistical methodology, relevance and future directions of the research.
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A Statistical Model of Serve Return Impact Patterns in Professional Tennis with Stephanie Kovalchik from 2022-08-23T19:37
In this episode we talk to Stephanie Kovalchik about her paper 'A Statistical Model of Serve Return Impac...
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True Shot Charts with Justin Ehrlich and Shane Sanders from 2022-06-23T00:16
We discuss True Shot Charts with Syracuse University Professors Ju...
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An Examination of Sport Climbing with Quang Nguyen from 2022-05-18T20:32:04
We discuss An Examination of Olympic Sport Climbing Competition Format and Scoring System with Listen
Grinding the Mocks with Benjamin Robinson from 2021-08-24T01:35:47
We discuss Grinding the Bayes: A Hierarchical Modeling Approach to Predicting the NFL Draft with Benjamin Robinson...
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Expected Hypothetical Completion Probability with Sameer Deshpande and Katherine Evans from 2021-01-10T23:25:07
We discuss a previous Big Data Bowl finalist paper `Expected Hypothetical Completion Probability` (Listen
Bang the can slowly with Ryan Elmore and Gregory J. Matthews from 2020-12-12T03:54:30
We discuss Bang the Can Slowly: An Investigation into the 2017 Houston Astros with Ryan Elmore (@rtelmore Listen
How often does the best team win with Michael Lopez from 2020-10-31T23:11:24
We discuss 'How often does the best team win? A unified approach to understanding randomness in North American sport' with Michael...
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Player Chemistry in Soccer with Lotte Bransen from 2020-09-13T16:48:34
We discuss 'Player Chemistry: Striving for a Perfectly Balanced Soccer Team' with Lotte Bransen. This paper builds on the Listen
Models for hockey player ratings with Andrew Thomas and Sam Ventura from 2020-08-10T03:13:35
In the third episode of the show we discuss 'Competing process hazard function models for player ratings in ice hockey' with two gu...
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Rao-Blackwellizing FG% with Daniel Daly-Grafstein from 2020-06-15T02:49:44
In the second episode we discuss two papers by our guest Daniel Daly-Grafstein and Luke Bornn: Rao-Blackwellizing field goal percentage (publ...
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openWAR with Gregory J. Matthews from 2020-05-10T05:15:08
In the first official Open Source Sports podcast episode, we discuss openWAR (available on arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.7158 and Listen
Open Source Sports preview! from 2020-05-06T02:00
Ron Yurko and Kostas Pelechrinis host the 'Open Source Sports' podcast to serve as a public reading group for discussing the latest research from sports analytics and statistics in sports. ...
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