Authors: Justin Ehrlich, Christopher Boudreaux, James Boudreau, and Shane Sanders Abstract Contests are games in which the players compete for a prize and exert effort to increase their probability of winning. For sport contests, analysts often use the Pythagorean expected wins model to estimate teams’ expected wins (quality). We ask if there are alternative contestContinue reading “Estimating Major League Baseball Team Quality through Simulation: An Analysis of an Alternative Pythagorean Expected Wins Model”
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Analysis of Passing Networks in Soccer
Authors: John Laschober, Amanda Harsy Abstract The study of the passing networks formed during soccer matches is an area of mathematics that has exploded within the past decade as both modern technology and new-found motivation in notable organizations have provided the public with better datasets. Through the analysis of players’ positioning and their passes throughoutContinue reading “Analysis of Passing Networks in Soccer”