Ron Yurko

Excited to share that I'm working on a book: 'Statistical Methods in #SportsAnalytics'! This is the culmination of my education, research, and experience in teaching #statisticalthinking and modeling in #sportsanalytics! Thanks to Rob & @CRC_MathStats for the opportunity!

And check out Quang Nguyen's latest work that builds off this! arxiv.org/abs/2603.17866

Official publication of '#NFL ghosts: A framework for evaluating defender positioning with conditional density estimation' is now available in the Annals of Applied Statistics projecteuclid.org/journals/annal… #BigDataBowl #sportsanalytics #CMSAC

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This framework enables comparison of observed movement against a distribution of hypotheticals at each frame within a play We focus on evaluating RB movement after handoff in run plays, and present examples of play valuation breakdown & player performance metrics

Simulation details: Given an observed path, at each frame along this path, generate a local distribution of hypothetical next steps (only simulate the immediate next movement, 1 frame ahead) (in progress: full path sim by repeatedly drawing posterior predictive steps & turns)

Full framework: 1. Movement characterization with tracking data features (step length & turn angle, inspired by animal movement literature) 2. Bayesian multilevel step-and-turn models 3. Posterior predictive simulation of player movement 4. Ghosting/hypothetical evaluation

Check out the latest from Quang Nguyen (@qntkhvn) in the #CMSAC research lab #sportsanalytics #NFL #BigDataBowl

New paper by myself & @Stat_Ron arxiv.org/abs/2603.17866 We introduce a generative modeling framework to evaluate continuous-time player movement against a distribution of frame-level hypotheticals #cmsac #nfl #bigdatabowl #sportsanalytics #ghosting

Still a better manager than Mark DeRosa

Perfect timing for Hans Zimmer's Super Bowl halftime show next year

Bottom of the 9th #WorldBaseballClassic youtube.com/watch?v=1x9YAC…

WBC attendance 2006: 737,112 2009: 801,408 2013: 781,438 2017: 973,699 2023: 1.12 million 2026: 1.37 million Pretty good growth story ...

#WorldBaseballClassic dominated by Pittsburgh connections tonight

I've been playing with the driving range data from this week at THE PLAYERS. Here's some fun stuff I've found... First, because I think they're pretty, some overhead and side views of the range sessions of the Top 20.

Sunday. 🇺🇸

3D tracking: Air Vladdy, Swim Move Soto