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Extracting Player Tracking Data from Video Using Non-Stationary Cameras and a Combination of Computer Vision Techniques
Learning Feature Representations from Football Tracking
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Characterization of Space and Time-Dependence of 3-Point Shots in Basketball
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Scoring a Touchdown with Variable Pricing Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in the NFL Ticket Markets
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