XY Research

Research in sports analytics, statistics, and visualization.

[Dan Cervone @dcervone0]

This year's #WorldCup will be the first in which teams have real-time player tracking data available. @LukeBornn, @JaviOnData, and I wrote about what kinds of stuff they might do with it: https://t.co/GY1y0bRJ1d

Freely readable in @signmagazine during WC only!

[XY Research @XY_Research]

Game 7.

[Harvard Griffin GSAS @HarvardGSAS]

Analysts like the Dodgers' @dcervone0, PhD '15 in Statistics, have ushered in a new era of baseball https://t.co/Af4PydfLDv #worldseries

[Sloan Sports Conf. @SloanSportsConf]

With 22 days to submit your Research Paper abstract, @dcervone0 of the @Dodgers on #SSAC's impact on his career: https://t.co/yhtiNioSIz

[Dan Cervone @dcervone0]

#Dodgers are hiring a data engineer. Come work with me and my awesome teammates and help win some baseball games! https://t.co/21EDIN408C

[Andy Miller @_amiller_]

new post: reducing reparameterization gradient variance
(paper+code+cat gif)
#VariationalInference, #MachineLearning https://t.co/9cPmJ1TCFM

[XKCD Comic @xkcdComic]

Machine Learning https://t.co/TaDbS9UuoH https://t.co/NGmfeibKXO

[Bill Herenda @billherenda]

#Kings name Luke Bornn, VP of Strategy & Analytics #NBA

[Jason Jones @mr_jasonjones]

From the Kings

[Dan Cervone @dcervone0]

I wrote about win probability! Is it broken, totally fine, or about to make a crazy comeback? https://t.co/tQJjn61hHq #rstats

[Michael Lopez @StatsbyLopez]

This is awesome - there's a negative autocorrelation to NFL win probability changes, via @dcervone0 https://t.co/KPUUlYP7WT

[Stephen Pettigrew @pettigrew_stats]

Easily the most important research I've seen in 5yrs at Sloan is John Drazan's (@Sports2STEM) work using bball to improve STEM educ...

[Dan Cervone @dcervone0]

Congrats to @Sports2STEM on the best paper award at #SSAC17 !

[Thom – e/ach hans run @lemonwatcher]

The more I think about @_amiller_ & @LukeBornn's Sloan paper the more I like it, even for discrete event level data. https://t.co/BV7lMkdtpC

[XY Research @XY_Research]

Elegant idea to represent bball possession as a document. Work by @_amiller_ #SSAC17

[XY Research @XY_Research]

@LukeBornn and @_amiller_ bringing topic models to the NBA #SSAC17

[Sloan Sports Conf. @SloanSportsConf]

Research Papers are live! Check out the #SSAC17 RP finalists here: https://t.co/9Sw81nzjis

[XY Research @XY_Research]

@XY_Research Our thoughts on how to identify the metrics that provide the most unique, reliable, and useful information for decision-makers

[XY Research @XY_Research]

A new paper from XY: "Meta-Analytics: Tools for Understanding the Statistical Properties of Sports Metrics" https://t.co/VPZmBlQPaw

[Andy Miller @_amiller_]

.@kirkgoldsberry getting foundational at #CASSIS