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Statistics in Sports
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FDS Colloquium: Brian Burke (ESPN), “A Solution to the Performer-Context Paradox”
Abstract: A common method of assessing performance in sports or other domains is to rely on residual analysis. Under this framework, a task performed within a given situational context is assigned an expected probability of success, and the performer is credited or debited by the residual. For example, if an athlete accomplishes a feat that…
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Zombie runners and bigger bases — bringing order to the chaos of sports
Yale recently hosted the 2025 Connecticut Sports Analytics Symposium, a two-day celebration of sports-related statistics and insights.
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Hey, batter, batter! Yale’s sports analytics team is taking some big swings
Join FDS for our Sports Analytics Conference on April 11-12, 2025
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Connecticut Sports Analytics Symposium (CSAS)
Hosted by The Yale Institute for Foundations of Data Science. Events will be held at Kline Tower, 219 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Ceros Financial Services, ESPN, CT Sun, and the Red Sox. Read about the data challenge for the 2025 event here: https://statds.org/events/csas2025/challenge.html