Past Meetings
2023 NESSIS
Program and abstracts
Congratuations to Shinpei Nakamura Sakai (Yale University) for winning
the 2023 NESSIS student poster competition (“Age-Conditioned Average
Treatment Effects: Assessing Load-Management Strategies across Multiple Sports”).
Selected presentations
(only first author listed below)
- Improving Medal Projections in Olympic Best Mark Sports
Suraj Bhuva, US Olympic & Paralympic Committee - Analytics, have some humility: a statistical view of fourth down decision making
Ryan Brill, University of Pennsylvania - A Weighted Curve Clustering Approach for Analyzing Pass Rush Routes in American Football
Robert Bajons, Vienna University of Economics and Business - A Comprehensive Survey of the Home Advantage in American football
Luke Benz, Harvard University - Estimating Shot Selection Efficiency in Basketball: A Revealed Efficiency Approach
Justin Ehrlich, Syracuse University - Attacking Tendencies by Setter Rotation in NCAA Women's Volleyball
Kevin Floyd, Simon Fraser University - Contextualized Generative Ghosting Model as Benchmark for Evaluating Player Movement in Football
Chaoyi Gu, Loughborough University - Quantifying Defensive Spin Moves in American Football: A Player Tracking Analysis
Samuel Jin, Gunn High School - Bayesian two-stage framework for lineup independent assessment of individual rebounding in the NBA
Nicholas Kiriazis, McGill University - Assessing Spatial Heterogeneity in Whiff Rate Using Geographically Weighted Regression
Riley Leonard, Cornell University - Sources of Bias in One-Meter Diving Competitions
Monnie McGee, Southern Methodist University - Evaluating the outcomes of passing plays from a quarterback's perspective
Will Morgan, StatsBomb - Yellow fever: Investigating referee consistency in the 'Big 5' men's European soccer leagues
Pete Philipson, Newcastle University - Estimating individual contributions to team success in women’s college volleyball
Scott Powers, Rice University - Leveraging PFF Data to Identify Off-the-Ball Runs in Soccer through NFL Route Running
Alexander Schram, PFF FC - Aiming for Competitive Balance Designing Fair Handicap Systems for Darts using a Markov Decision Process Framework
Rachael Walker, University of Toronto - Evaluating plate discipline in Major League Baseball with Bayesian Additive Regression Trees
Ryan Yee, University of Wisconsin-Madison - NFL Ghosts: Evaluating pass defense with high-dimensional CDEs
Ron Yurko, Carnegie Mellon University
Pictures
Photographs from the 2023 NESSIS
Selected videos
- Talk by Jim Albert
- Talk by Quang Nguyen
- Talk by Ron Yurko
- Talk by Ryan Brill
- Talk by Robert Bajons
- Talk by Pete Philipson
- Talk by Guanyu Hu
- Talk by Chaoyi Gu
- Talk by Scott Powers
- Talk by Nicholas Kiriazis
- Talk by Ryan Yee
- Talk by Rachael Walker
- Talk by Marcos Matabuena
- Talk by Suraj Bhuva
- Panel Discussion
Sponsors
We kindly thank the following organizations for their support of the 2023 NESSIS:
