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The Pitcher's Dilemma: A Game-Theoretical Model of Pickoffs and Stolen Bases
William Melville
Robert Greathouse
Tristan Mott
Christopher Archibald
David Grimsman
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Scouting Anyone: Probabilistic Player Archetypes for Any League
Sebastian Buzzalino
Thierry Aymerich
Marlin Myrte
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Modern Playoff Tournament-Design Analysis across Sports: A Bayesian Modeling and Advanced Simulation Study
Hassan Rafique
Shane Sanders
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HoopEval: Individual Player Action Evaluation via Deep Reinforcement Learning
Xing Wang
Yu Fu
Sheng Xu
Konstantinos Pelechrinis
Mingxin Zhang
Miguel Ángel Gómez Ruano
Guiliang Liu
Shaoliang Zhang
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Xing Wang
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Going for Gold: Using Neuromuscular Skeletal Machine Learning Simulations to Predict Lower Extremity Performance in Track and Field Athletics
Dan Griffiths
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Dan Griffiths
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Fast Hybrid Search for Red-Zone Play Recommendations
Asad Khan
Arpan Bhattacharya
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Better Prevent than Tackle: Valuing Defense in Soccer Based on Graph Neural Networks
Hyunsung Kim
Sangwoo Seo
Hoyoung Choi
Tom Boomstra
Jinsung Yoon
Chanyoung Park
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Wide Open Gazes: Quantifying Visual Exploratory Behavior in Soccer with Pose Enhanced Positional Data
Joris Bekkers
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Valuing La Pausa: Quantifying Optimal Pass Timing Beyond Speed
Minho Lee
Geonhee Jo
Miru Hong
Prof. Dr. Pascal Bauer
Prof. Sang-Ki Ko
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Tackling Causality: Estimating Frame-Level Defensive Impact with Multi-Agent Transformers
Ben Jenkins
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Interpretable Prediction and Large-Scale Analysis of Judging in Professional Boxing
Mason duBoef
Thomas Romeas
Mathieu Charbonneau
Allan Svejstrup
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Deep Reinforcement Learning for NBA Player Valuation: A Temporal Difference Approach with Shapley Attribution
Ben Jenkins
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Characterizing and Controlling the Perceived Competitive Balance in Sports Leagues
Pedro Vaz-de-Melo
Estéfano Vassoler
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Can a Stadium Full of Monkeys Playing Strat-o-Matic Outmanage Earl Weaver? An empirical Bayesian Estimator of Manager Value
Dan M. Kahan
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