Invited Paper Session

Sports Analytics and the Boston Marathon

Tue, Aug 4, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM Room CC-253A Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center

Jessica KohlschmidtOrganizerJessica KohlschmidtChair

Council of Chapters co: Section on Statistics in Sportsco: Caucus for Women in Statistics and Data Scienceco: History of Statistics Interest Group Applied

4 Presentations

How fast do we slow down? -- Handicapping running and Swimming competitions.

11:50 AM - 12:15 PM

Richard De Veaux (Williams College)

Stacked models Bootstrap Cohort effects Aging Neural networks Sports analytics

How low can the women's marathon record go?

11:25 AM - 11:50 AM

Richard Smith (University of North Carolina)

Extreme value theory Chicago marathon Super-shoes

Quantifying the Effect of Super Shoes on Elite Marathoning

11:00 AM - 11:25 AM

Erin Franke (Carnegie Mellon University)

marathon super shoes mixed effects

Quantifying uncertainty in marathon finish time predictions

10:35 AM - 11:00 AM

Eric Gerber (Northeastern University)

Co-authors: Brandon Onyejekwe (Northeastern University)

Marathon Bayesian linear regression Uncertainty quantification Sports analytics