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154 * !
Mon, 7/30/2018, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-West 122
Sports Analysis: New Insights — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Sports, Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute, SSC
Organizer(s): Ivor Cribben, University of Alberta
Chair(s): Ivor Cribben, University of Alberta
10:35 AM Net Best-Ball Team Composition in Golf
Tim Swartz, Simon Fraser University; Yifan Wu, Simon Fraser University; Peter Chow-White, Simon Fraser University
10:55 AM Goals in Soccer: Factors That Matter
Presentation
Jan Vecer, Charles University
11:15 AM The Hot Hand Theory in Hockey: a Multilevel Logistic Regression Analysis
Presentation
Likang Ding; Armann Ingolfsson, University of Alberta; Ivor Cribben, University of Alberta; Monica Tran, University of Alberta
11:35 AM Manifestations of Loss Aversion in Profession Golf
Presentation
Ryan Elmore, University of Denver; Andrew Urbaczewski, University of Denver
11:55 AM Degree of Weak and Strong Links in Pickleball Doubles Games
Presentation
Paramjit Gill, University of British Columbia Okanagan; Tim Swartz, Simon Fraser University
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

193
Mon, 7/30/2018, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-West Hall B
Contributed Poster Presentations: Section on Statistics in Sports — Contributed Poster Presentations
Section on Statistics in Sports
Chair(s): Paul McNicholas, McMaster University
68: Statistics Behind the Skill: Cluster Analysis and Data Visualization on Disc Golf Data
Elijah S Meyer, Montana State University; Jennifer L Green, Montana State University
69: Enhanced Prediction of March Mania Using Conference and Historical Information
Guanhong Miao; Samuel Wu, University of Florida
70: Equipment Independent Estimation of Novel Metrics for Ranking Amateur Auto Racing Drivers
Alexandra Peterson; Daniel L. Gillen, University of California, Irvine; Hal Stern, University of California, Irvine
 
 

Register 200
Mon, 7/30/2018, 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM CC-West 201
Section on Statistics in Sports Speaker with Lunch (Added Fee) — Roundtables Speaker with Lunch
Section on Statistics in Sports
Organizer(s): Andrew Swift, University of Nebraska at Omaha
ML10: Is Joe Flacco Elite? Hierarchical Models for Player Evaluation in Team Sports
Sam Ventura, Pittsburgh Penguins; Ronald Yurko, Carnegie Mellon University; Maksim Horowitz, Carnegie Mellon University; Andrew C Thomas, Minnesota Wild
 
 

342
Tue, 7/31/2018, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-West 209
SPEED: Sports to Fire: Fascinating Applications of Statistics — Contributed Speed
Section on Statistics in Sports, SSC, Section on Statistics in Imaging, Section on Statistical Computing, Section on Statistical Consulting, Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science, Section on Statistics in Epidemiology, Statistical Auditing Interest Group, Transportation Statistics Interest Group, Section on Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences, Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts
Chair(s): Bo Chen, University of Toronto
Poster Presentations for this session.
10:35 AM Claim-Level Models Using Statistical Learning Techniques and Risk Analysis
Presentation
Mathieu Pigeon, Université du Québec à Montréal; Francis Duval, Université du Québec à Montréal
10:40 AM Beach Volleyball Team Optimization
Presentation
Matthew Oehler, BYU
10:45 AM Distributions of Time to First Spot Fire
Presentation
Trevor Thomson, Simon Fraser University
10:50 AM Rao-Blackwellizing Field Goal Percentage in the NBA
Presentation
Daniel Daly-Grafstein, Simon Fraser University; Luke Bornn, Sacramento Kings and Simon Fraser University
10:55 AM Estimating Attendance at Non-Ticketed Non-Gated Events
Presentation
Carl Schwarz, Simon Fraser University
11:10 AM Teaching Statistics Graduate Students the Importance of Reproducible Research
Presentation
Kristen McQuerry, University of Kentucky
11:15 AM Shared and Study-Specific Dietary Patterns: a Novel Approach to Replicability and Validity
Roberta De Vito; Carlo La Vecchia, Università degli Studi di Milano; Giovanni Parmigiani , Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Valeria Edefonti, Università degli Studi di Milano
11:20 AM Statistical Ethics and Challenging Substantial Errors in Statistical Methods and Results in a Prominent Peer Reviewed Economics Journal
Chris Barker, Statistical Planning and Analysis Services, Inc.
11:30 AM To Bet or Not to Bet - the Modified Kelly Criteria
Presentation
Dani Chu, SFU Sports Analytics Club; Yifan Wu, Simon Fraser University; Tim Swartz, Simon Fraser University
11:35 AM The Home Run Spike of MLB 2017: Drop in Quality of Pitch (QOP) Is a Missing Factor
Presentation
Jason Wilson, Biola University
11:40 AM An Application of Machine Learning for 3D IC Defect Detection
Presentation
Meihui Guo, National Sun Yat-Sen University; Yu-Jung Huang, I-Shou University
11:50 AM The Simple Story of Advanced NBA Metrics
Zach Fulker, University of Pittsburgh; Tyler Folta, University of Pittsburgh; Lucas Mentch, University of Pittsburgh
11:55 AM Application of Email Spam Filtering Algorithms to SMS Data
Presentation
Yishu Xue, University Of Connecticut
12:00 PM MLB Rule IV Draft: Valuing Draft Pick Slots
Presentation
Anthony Cacchione, City College of New York
12:05 PM Assessing the Impact of Practice Restriction Rules on Injury Rates in the National Football League (NFL)
Presentation
Zachary Binney, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University; Cecile Janssens, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University; Kyle E Hammond, Emory University School of Medicine; Mitchel Klein, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University; Michael Goodman, Emory University
 
 

413
Tue, 7/31/2018, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-East 14
Section on Statistics in Sports Cpapers — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Sports
Chair(s): Andrew Swift, University of Nebraska at Omaha
2:05 PM From Markov Models to Poisson Point Processes: Modeling Player Movement in the NBA
Presentation
Jacob Mortensen, Simon Fraser University; Luke Bornn, Sacramento Kings and Simon Fraser University
2:20 PM Predicting the PITCHf/X Pitch Classifier
Presentation
Christian Stratton, Montana State University; Andrew Hoegh, Montana State University; Jennifer L Green, Montana State University
2:35 PM The Causal Effect of a Catch and Shoot in the NBA
Presentation
Katherine Louise Evans, Verily Life Sciences
2:50 PM Removing Absorbing States from Markov Chain Models
Presentation
Li-Hsuan Huang; Harish S. Bhat, University of California, Merced; Sebastian Rodriguez, Northwestern University
3:05 PM Recreating Plays - Testing Shot Policies in Basketball Using Non-Stationary Markov Decision Processes
Presentation
Nathan Sandholtz, Simon Fraser University; Luke Bornn, Sacramento Kings and Simon Fraser University
3:20 PM Linking Whole Body Sweat Measurements with Regional Body Sweat Measurements Using Multivariate Mapping Techniques
Presentation
Peter John De Chavez, PepsiCo; Kelly Barnes, Gatorade Sports Science Institute, PepsiCo; Lindsay Baker, Gatorade Sports Science Institute, PepsiCo; Jason Parcon, PepsiCo
3:35 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

435
Tue, 7/31/2018, 3:05 PM - 3:50 PM CC-West Hall B
SPEED: Sports to Fire: Fascinating Applications of Statistics — Contributed Poster Presentations
Section on Statistics in Sports, SSC, Section on Statistics in Imaging, Section on Statistical Computing, Section on Statistical Consulting, Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science, Section on Statistics in Epidemiology, Statistical Auditing Interest Group, Transportation Statistics Interest Group, Section on Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences, Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts
Chair(s): Paul McNicholas, McMaster University
Oral Presentations for this session.
1: Claim-Level Models Using Statistical Learning Techniques and Risk Analysis
Mathieu Pigeon, Université du Québec à Montréal; Francis Duval, Université du Québec à Montréal
2: Beach Volleyball Team Optimization
Matthew Oehler, BYU
3: Distributions of Time to First Spot Fire
Trevor Thomson, Simon Fraser University
4: Rao-Blackwellizing Field Goal Percentage in the NBA
Daniel Daly-Grafstein, Simon Fraser University; Luke Bornn, Sacramento Kings and Simon Fraser University
5: Estimating Attendance at Non-Ticketed Non-Gated Events
Carl Schwarz, Simon Fraser University
8: Teaching Statistics Graduate Students the Importance of Reproducible Research
Kristen McQuerry, University of Kentucky
9: Shared and Study-Specific Dietary Patterns: a Novel Approach to Replicability and Validity
Roberta De Vito; Carlo La Vecchia, Università degli Studi di Milano; Giovanni Parmigiani , Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Valeria Edefonti, Università degli Studi di Milano
10: Statistical Ethics and Challenging Substantial Errors in Statistical Methods and Results in a Prominent Peer Reviewed Economics Journal
Chris Barker, Statistical Planning and Analysis Services, Inc.
11: To Bet or Not to Bet - the Modified Kelly Criteria
Dani Chu, SFU Sports Analytics Club; Yifan Wu, Simon Fraser University; Tim Swartz, Simon Fraser University
12: The Home Run Spike of MLB 2017: Drop in Quality of Pitch (QOP) Is a Missing Factor
Jason Wilson, Biola University
13: An Application of Machine Learning for 3D IC Defect Detection
Meihui Guo, National Sun Yat-Sen University; Yu-Jung Huang, I-Shou University
15: The Simple Story of Advanced NBA Metrics
Zach Fulker, University of Pittsburgh; Tyler Folta, University of Pittsburgh; Lucas Mentch, University of Pittsburgh
16: Application of Email Spam Filtering Algorithms to SMS Data
Yishu Xue, University Of Connecticut
17: MLB Rule IV Draft: Valuing Draft Pick Slots
Anthony Cacchione, City College of New York
18: Assessing the Impact of Practice Restriction Rules on Injury Rates in the National Football League (NFL)
Zachary Binney, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University; Cecile Janssens, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University; Kyle E Hammond, Emory University School of Medicine; Mitchel Klein, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University; Michael Goodman, Emory University
Oral Presentations for this session.
 
 

451 * !
Wed, 8/1/2018, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-West 301
Getting Shots Inside the Box-Cox -- Transformational Soccer Analytics — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Sports, Significance Magazine, Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science
Organizer(s): Luke Bornn, Sacramento Kings and Simon Fraser University
Chair(s): Dan Cervone, LA Dodgers
8:35 AM Interpretable Analysis of Team Performance in Soccer Using Tracking Data: a Hybrid of Supervised and Unsupervised Methods.
Presentation
Paul David Power, STATS
9:00 AM From Intuition to Objective Analysis: Data-Oriented Strategies at F.C. Barcelona
Presentation
Javier Eduardo Fernández, F.C. Barcelona
9:25 AM Data Science with Your Hair on Fire: Applied Research in Soccer
Presentation
Ted Knutson, StatsBomb Services
9:50 AM Discussant: Luke Bornn, Sacramento Kings and Simon Fraser University
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

641 !
Thu, 8/2/2018, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-West 306
Memorial Session for Joseph Hilbe: a Statistician Who Counted! — Invited Papers
Memorial, International Statistical Institute, Section on Statistics in Sports, Astrostatistics Special Interest Group, History of Statistics Interest Group
Organizer(s): Kimberly F Sellers, Georgetown University
Chair(s): Justine Shults, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
10:35 AM An Overview of Count Data Models, Their Use, and Their Implementation in Software
Presentation
James Hardin, University of South Carolina
10:55 AM An Overview of Generalized Linear Models with Applications in Astronomy
Rafael S. de Souza, UNC Chapel Hill and International Astrostatistics Association
11:15 AM Dr. Joseph Hilbe and his Impact on the Development of New methods for Discrete Data Analysis
Presentation
Justine Shults, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
11:35 AM Joseph Hilbe: Athlete, Coach, Statistician and Mentor
Michael Hilbe, Arizona State University
11:55 AM Discussant: Kimberly F Sellers, Georgetown University
12:15 PM Floor Discussion