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Ron Yurko

@Stat_Ron

6 years

Can we officially declare that LeVeon Bell has the worst agent in football?

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@Stat_Ron

5 months

Tackles are flawed statistics. Thanks to Quang Nguyen ( @qntkhvn ), Larry Jiang, and Meg Ellingwood in this year's #BigDataBowl - we have created a new defensive metric based on halting the ball-carrier's forward progress: Momentum-Based Fractional Tackles

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2 years

I find it hard to believe that 10 years ago I graduated high school to begin @CarnegieMellon - now I'm incredibly excited to share I will be an Assistant Teaching Professor @CMU_Stats ! I owe everything to my amazing advisors, mentors, friends, & family for all of their support!

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@Stat_Ron

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@nnstats It's because the majority of individuals saying you should work unpaid are white men that only hire other white men from their alma mater with rich parents that paid for their entire college education and are debt-free. - my TED talk.

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@Stat_Ron

5 years

Extremely excited to share the latest #sportsanalytics research with @CMU_Stats @FranciMatano @leerichardson09 Taylor Pospisil @stat_sam and @PittTweet @kpelechrinis Nick Granered - #GoingDeep : Continuous-time within-play valuation using #BigDataBowl data

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@Stat_Ron

4 months

@ProFootballTalk The framing of "analytics" in this manner, leads me to believe that both you and the coach that you spoke to have no idea what that word means

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@Stat_Ron

4 months

Students in my #sportsanalyics class are going to complete critiques of analysis they read online throughout the semester, initial list of potential sites so far (I won't have a comprehensive list but I'd greatly appreciate any recommendations)

Ron Yurko

@Stat_Ron

4 months

Does anyone have a list of #sportsanalytics websites by sport? I don't mean in terms of data, but rather articles (e.g., Fangraphs and Baseball Prospectus for baseball, and so on)

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@Stat_Ron

6 years

Here it is, #nflscrapR research by @stat_sam @bklynmaks and myself has led to this - #nflWAR : A Reproducible Method for Offensive Player Evaluation in Football -explaining our full approach to estimating WAR in football and how to extend it with more data

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Ron Yurko

@Stat_Ron

4 years

It's official: @kpelechrinis and I are launching a new #statsinsports #sportsanalytics podcast @OpenSrcSports ! Think of the podcast as a public reading group with each episode dedicated to a single paper featuring an author as the episode's guest!

Open Source Sports podcast

@OpenSrcSports

4 years

#HelloWorld Listen to the "Open Source Sports preview!" ⚓

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@Stat_Ron

2 years

CMU Statistics & Data Science

@CMU_Stats

2 years

Congratulations to Dr. Ron Yurko @Stat_Ron on his @CMU_Stats PhD defense on “Selective Inference Approaches for Augmenting Genetic Association Studies with Multi-Omics Metadata”! Co-advised by Kathryn Roeder @RoederKat and Max G’Sell. #cuethestarwarsgifs

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@Stat_Ron

2 years

SAVE THE DATE: @CMU_Stats #CMSAC22 will be returning October 28-29! Stay tuned for more #sportsanalytics content coming soon... (rumor has it a #BigDataBowl / player-tracking data related workshop led by a CMU professor could be in the works) #statsinsports #datascience #rstats

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@Stat_Ron

3 years

And it's in - @kpelechrinis and I have officially submitted our entry for the #BigDataBowl : A ghosting framework for evaluating defender ability to limit YAC

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Ron Yurko

@Stat_Ron

6 years

Here's how you win in the #NFL - you throw the ball better than the other team. Run the ball better than the other team? Eh who cares... you don't outscore your opponents if you can't throw - all I'm using is the difference between a team's EPA/Att for OFF and DEF from #nflscrapR

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@Stat_Ron

5 years

Major personal news: after much consideration I’ll be officially following @AB84 from Pittsburgh to Oakland to join #Raidersnation as an Data Science and AI specialist for Coach Gruden! @nflscrapR will be removed from GitHub today including all of the data #endofanera

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@Stat_Ron

4 months

Update on where this #sportsanalytics articles list is at now if you're curious

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@Stat_Ron

4 months

Students in my #sportsanalyics class are going to complete critiques of analysis they read online throughout the semester, initial list of potential sites so far (I won't have a comprehensive list but I'd greatly appreciate any recommendations)

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@Stat_Ron

4 months

Courtesy of @SethWalder , all of the "analytics" folks working for football teams...

ProFootballTalk

@ProFootballTalk

4 months

A coach told me earlier today that analytics was just a way for people who never would have gotten jobs in football to get jobs in football. To understand that is to understand why they get so defensive whenever anyone questions analytics.

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CMU Statistics & Data Science

@CMU_Stats

3 years

Congratulations to @CMU_Stats Ron Yurko @Stat_Ron on his successful PhD proposal on “Selective Inference Approaches for Augmenting Genetic Association Studies with Multi-omics Metadata”! Co-advised by Kathryn Roeder @RoederKat and Max G’Sell #cuestarwarsgif

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@Stat_Ron

1 year

Very excited to announce new #NFL #sportsanalytics paper () #HereComesTheSTRAIN #GetStrained , building upon original #BigDataBowl work by @statsinthewild0 @qntkhvn () with the following key updates: [1/4]

qntkhvn

@qntkhvn

1 year

Check out the #BigDataBowl 2023 submission by @Zero_Gregs (formerly known as @StatsInTheWild / @FatGreggy ) and myself. We propose STRAIN, a simple and interpretable metric for evaluating pass-rushers.

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@Stat_Ron

6 years

Major #nflscrapR update is live! New functions for gathering games and scraping ALL of the NFL API’s play-by-play data meaning player ids for everyone involved in tackles, pass defense, laterals, etc #nflscrapR #rstats #moredatamorefun

GitHub - maksimhorowitz/nflscrapR: R Package for Scraping and Aggregating NFL Data

R Package for Scraping and Aggregating NFL Data. Contribute to maksimhorowitz/nflscrapR development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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@Stat_Ron

5 years

#Steelers only need 10 more field goals to take the lead #NextGenStats

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@Stat_Ron

6 years

Late night blog post time - first in a series on Bayesian data analysis building towards full Bayesian multilevel models featuring everyone's favorite WR @TeamJuJu #BayesianBabySteps #rstats #blogdown #nflscrapR

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@Stat_Ron

6 years

For anyone that wants an easy intro to making R packages (which you basically should do for any big project in R), check out this simple step-by-step guide by @leerichardson09 - I have it open every time I'm making a new one #rstats #CUDAS

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@Stat_Ron

4 years

Tweets like this are a reason why I dislike a lot of football analytics twitter and discouraged to participate in it, this isn’t constructive (and I’m still not even convinced the analysis about Rodgers is appropriate) - twitter “dunking” is a waste of time, I’m done with this

Computer Cowboy

@benbbaldwin

4 years

The funny thing about the 49ers winning by rushing for ~300 yards in this game is that people can't even use it to try to dunk on analytics twitter because 2 of the beliefs of analytics twitter is that this year's Packers were frauds and that Rodgers isn't good anymore, and, well

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@Stat_Ron

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The #BigDataBowl was awesome, I'm incredibly proud of the work and presentations by our @CMU_Stats students! Big thanks to @StatsbyLopez , Ally Blake, @DataWithBliss , and the rest of the #NFL crew responsible for hosting an incredible event at the #NFLCombine

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@Stat_Ron

4 years

Ran 10 miles for first time in life, going to conquer the half marathon soon

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@Stat_Ron

1 year

Okay - @quarto_pub is amazing and SOOOO much easier to use for making an academic website, this was super easy to put together and more importantly will be simple to update: #quarto #rstats

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@Stat_Ron

5 years

You want proof stats & data science education needs to be taught in every curriculum?

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@Stat_Ron

5 months

#NFL teams featuring Carnegie Mellon alumni as analytics staffers (all made the playoffs this year!): - Rishav Dutta #Browns - Sarah Mallepalle #Cowboys - Toby Junker #Lions - Shravan Ramamurthy #49ers #sportsanalytics #TartanProud

Seth Walder

@SethWalder

10 months

Long overdue refresh of the NFL analytics staffer list after an offseason with plenty of movement. As always, this is to the best of my understanding based on both what teams list and conversations with analytics folks around the league.

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@Stat_Ron

4 months

We need a #sportsanalytics retraction watch, because this is a great retraction candidate - an example of data analysis without any notion of statistical thinking, that will mislead the broader public in making conspiratorial conclusions (this gif applies to the whole thread)

Warren Sharp

@SharpFootball

4 months

The NFL pushed the panic button 🚨 They have a ref in their rotation who is a MASSIVE edge to road teams Road teams win at the #1 highest rate with him... He penalizes home teams in ways no other ref does... and... He's calling the Chiefs road game

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@Stat_Ron

3 years

I can confidently say, from all levels of baseball I have ever watched, this is the worst play I have ever seen in my entire life

MLB

@MLB

3 years

El Mago magic! Have you ever seen anything like this?!

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@Stat_Ron

4 years

Anyone in #sportsanalytics community put together a list / repository of various publicly available data sources across different sports? Like I'm thinking different #rstats and python packages, websites to export CSVs, etc - any help appreciated!

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@Stat_Ron

2 years

BREAKING NEWS: Applications are now open for @CMU_Stats Summer Undergrad Research Experience! Program theme #DataScience in #SportsAnalytics aka #CMSACamp ! Set for *in-person* Jun 6 - Jul 29, w/ provided housing, plus a $4000 stipend! Deadline: Mar 23rd!

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@Stat_Ron

6 years

Top 25 players in 2017 NFL season based on #nflWAR methodology, of course Russ #1 , only non-QB is Antonio Brown but is ranked 25th... Jameis Winston's air WAR > total WAR because of his negative rush WAR, full paper details here #nflscrapR #rstats #dataviz

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@Stat_Ron

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How can you not be romantic about baseball?

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@Stat_Ron

4 years

@benbbaldwin Yes but can you make it not look like a table made by an Econ PhD

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@Stat_Ron

2 years

This is literally how my dad taught me how to play baseball - looking at series of baseball cards

Rob Friedman

@PitchingNinja

2 years

Justin Verlander, Mechanics (baseball card edition)

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@Stat_Ron

5 years

A couple years ago I would spend time just churning out several plots using @nflscrapR EPA/WPA - try to tweet it at popular folks like @minakimes @billbarnwell hope for some retweets etc to promote @nflscrapR and to be honest it felt like I was just yelling in an empty room

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@Stat_Ron

4 years

TL;DR no

The Ringer

@ringer

4 years

The Panthers are paying Christian McCaffrey. Now the question is whether he’ll be worth it. @rileymcatee :

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@Stat_Ron

1 year

Are you looking closely? Adding another to the #dataviz class example repository

Tanay Jaipuria

@tanayj

1 year

Fascinating chart

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@Stat_Ron

6 years

BIG NEWS: @CMU_Stats @CMUAnalytics is hosting the first ever #CMSAC Reproducible Research Competition! Requiring the use of publicly available data and access to all your code/analysis - we're hoping to make #sportsanalytics research reproducible! #CMSAC18

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@Stat_Ron

5 years

Narrator: it was #NESSIS (this is the density curve I talked about on @WMoneyball @bcmassey @adiwyner )

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@Stat_Ron

5 years

Not gonna lie, but I feel like I made the best GIF I will ever make in my life for #NESSIS19 #staytuned

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@Stat_Ron

5 months

@theStevenRuiz Demaryius Thomas was so under appreciated

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@Stat_Ron

4 years

@ScoutWithBryan @nnstats Thank you for letting us know how privileged you were in life to be able to take an unpaid internship with a NBA team in college

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@Stat_Ron

3 years

For the love of humanity, can individuals covering this story please replace "homeopathic" with "pseudoscientific" from now on

Ian Rapoport

@RapSheet

3 years

#Packers QB Aaron Rodgers received homeopathic treatment from his personal doctor to raise his antibody levels and asked the NFL to review his status. The NFL, NFLPA and joint docs ruled him as unvaccinated. Now, he has COVID-19. More here:

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@Stat_Ron

2 years

Adding to #dataviz class examples

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@Stat_Ron

4 years

Is that who I think it is in front of him? @CowboysStats

PFF Fantasy & Betting

@PFF_Fantasy

4 years

Saquon Barkley averaged NEGATIVE 0.7 rushing yards BEFORE contact per attempt tonight 😑

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@Stat_Ron

2 years

This is a football tweet

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@Stat_Ron

3 months

Great time today w/ Simon Fraser #sportsanalytics group discussing ' #NFL Ghosts: A framework for evaluating defender positioning using high-dimensional conditional density estimates' - fantastic virtual speaker series w/ all talks available online:

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@Stat_Ron

5 years

Soon...

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@Stat_Ron

6 years

Also I updated my #nflscrapR data repository so all playoff games and statistics are now available to download easily as well

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@Stat_Ron

4 months

#BigDatBowl #TartanProud

Michael Lopez

@StatsbyLopez

4 months

Congrats to the finalists, runner-ups, and honorable mentions from the 2024 Big Data Bowl! #BigDataBowl

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@Stat_Ron

6 years

Second #blogdown post in my #BayesianBabySteps series - intro to using Laplace approximation to model #NFL score differentials, determining the value of passing efficiency relative to rushing with EPA from #nflscrapR and the effect of strong priors #rstats

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@Stat_Ron

2 years

Problem prevalent in #sportsanalytics discourse: overconfidence and misunderstanding of expectation, coupled with lack of respect and understanding of variance

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@Stat_Ron

4 months

Great read from Kevin - for all the discussion about Shanahan's decision making, Mahomes being inevitable, etc., the turning point of the game (objectively and subjectively) was a punt that hit Darrell Luter Jr's foot followed by Ray-Ray McCloud III failing to pick it up

Kevin Cole

@KevinCole___

4 months

The three fumbles were the highest impact plays of the game, two going against the 49ers and for the Chiefs

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@Stat_Ron

4 years

This is the part I can't stop thinking about - like if you seriously continue to think the US healthcare system doesn't need a radical overhaul while living through all of this then either you're rich or just so far gone in terms of political vitriol

Christiane Amanpour

@amanpour

4 years

. @edyong209 : “A country that, 7 months into a pandemic, still cannot ensure that its healthcare workers have enough gowns and gloves and protective equipment is not going to be able to distribute a vaccine in an efficient way. It simply isn’t.”

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@Stat_Ron

4 years

And now @nflscrapR has been used in a @WSJ article - we ( @bklynmaks @stat_sam and me) are pretty proud of what we’ve accomplished with this #rstats package, it’s a great lesson on sharing your work, code, AND data so ANYONE can use it (students, journalists, fans, hobbyists etc)

Andrew Beaton

@andrewlbeaton

4 years

It's not just your imagination: Seahawks games are actually the nuttiest. Here's the the data to prove it.

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@Stat_Ron

5 years

Looks like you can now access online the official publication of the culmination of @nflscrapR research #nflWAR by @stat_sam @bklynmaks and myself, as it officially heads to print - crazy to think how long ago it was now as I start PhD year 3 @CMU_Stats

nflWAR: a reproducible method for offensive player evaluation in football

Existing methods for player evaluation in American football rely heavily on proprietary data, are often not reproducible, lag behind those of other major sports, and are not interpretable in terms of...

www.degruyter.com

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@Stat_Ron

5 years

Had a blast this week teaching #rstats to the @WhartonSB @WMoneyball students, the students were chanting “pipe it” ( #tidyverse %>%) while taking this photo - really an amazing group and program @adiwyner @skdeshpande91

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@Stat_Ron

1 year

BREAKING NEWS: #CMSACamp is back! Applications are now open for @CMU_Stats Summer Undergrad Research Experience! Program theme is once again #DataScience in #SportsAnalytics ! Set for Jun 5 - Jul 28 w/ provided housing + $4000 stipend! Deadline: Feb 26th!

CMU Statistics & Data Science

@CMU_Stats

1 year

#CMSACamp is back! Join @CMU_Stats this summer for eight weeks of statistics, data science, and sports! Work with professional sports organizations! Housing plus stipend included! Applications due Sun Feb 26 #datascience #sportsanalytics #CMSAC #letsdothis

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@Stat_Ron

5 years

@dmorey You might want to not include that account in your tweet....

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@Stat_Ron

5 years

Yup this happened #micdrop @Bbl_Astrophyscs dropping the news that #MLB used leftovers for 2019 post-season instead of 2019 regular season balls #CMSAC19

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@Stat_Ron

3 years

Initial advice I've recently been giving people whenever they ask me about entering #sportsanalytics : 1) Make a twitter account and follow @StatsbyLopez @nnstats 2) Look here 3) Find and work on a project that interests you, then promote it like crazy

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@Stat_Ron

4 years

Never received my PA mail-in ballot, went in person, was mocked by people for requesting a mail-in, and waited until they allowed me to do a provisional - I voted for people I care about since as a white male US citizen I'm privileged to not be affected by the outcome #GoVotePA

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@Stat_Ron

4 years

@bykevinclark You might be on to something...

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@Stat_Ron

3 years

This is officially the greatest movie announcement I have ever seen

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@Stat_Ron

4 years

@PFF_Eric I'll do you one better: WHY is Taysom Hill?

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@Stat_Ron

5 years

MAKE THIS DATA PUBLIC

The Ringer

@ringer

5 years

A source gave us unprecedented access to 73,000 MLB scouting reports. @BenLindbergh will break down his findings in a three-part series this week. First up, how good are scouts at projecting success?

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@Stat_Ron

2 months

This is what a #sportsanalytics class looks like @CMU_Stats w/ Bayesian state-space modeling in Stan following the class Glickman & Stern model... a fun, simple example for #NFL team ratings in the Patrick Mahomes era (2018-present) #dataviz

Ron Yurko

@Stat_Ron

2 months

Going to cover the classic Glickman & Stern (1998) model in #sportsanalytics class next week with Stan demo, naturally @StatsbyLopez & co. already did this (in BUGS)

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@Stat_Ron

5 years

Just found out we won the student poster prize at #NESSIS ! All credit goes to Riccardo ( was busy in London w/ ML fairness) and Natalia! Such a fun project about the wild world of Ultra Trails, check out Riccardo's package here

GitHub - ricfog/ScrapITRA

Contribute to ricfog/ScrapITRA development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Ron Yurko

@Stat_Ron

5 years

And also check out the Ultra Trail marathon running poster by @CMU_Stats Riccardo, Natalia, and me

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@Stat_Ron

4 years

@minakimes Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and... House?

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@Stat_Ron

4 years

Excited to share my first @PNASNews publication with my advisors Max G'Sell, Kathryn Roeder, and Bernie Devlin: 'A selective inference approach for false discovery rate control using multiomics covariates yields insights into disease risk'

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@Stat_Ron

5 years

This is essentially the main reason why I find events, such as the Sloan conference (yes I’m more than willing to call it out), to be problematic - they’re creating such a high barrier to entry propagating an obvious problem in #sportsanalytics , it needs to be inclusive #dobetter

Mina Kimes

@minakimes

5 years

I also think it’s important to note that they’re not arguing that analytics aren’t important—just that their growth will crowd some folks out, because of issues like pipelines. Which are the same issues that crowd out coaches with the *wrong* positional resume, for example.

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@Stat_Ron

1 year

Hat tip to @benbbaldwin @mrcaseb and others that created #OpenSourceFootball as a great resource for some deep dive resources: (this is severely underused!) #sportsanalytics #rstats #dataviz

Open Source Football: Latest posts

opensourcefootball.com

Ed Feng

@thepowerrank

1 year

Holy crap, @nflfastR makes it easy to calculate quantities that you want. Thank you, @benbbaldwin , @Stat_Ron and everyone else that has made this possible. Download the csv files here:

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@Stat_Ron

4 years

This has definitely been the most frustrating part of seeing media reaction to the forecasts - "the worst-case 95th percentile projection is nowhere near reality so these models are awful!"

Nate Silver

@NateSilver538

4 years

There's a difference between what the models said and "what the models said" as interpreted by the media, which often emphasized worst-case scenarios rather than the broader range of possibilities they articulated, some of which were conditional on there being no distancing, etc.

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@Stat_Ron

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Presenting Markov Model of Football by @keithgoldner of @numberFire in class, so I reproduced his paper's original absorbing Markov chain with 09-17 play-by-play data with #nflscrapR - code to construct the transition matrix and basic calculations here

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@Stat_Ron

6 years

I made another football data package... world football that is - introducing #fcscrapR which allows you to easily grab, for any match on ESPN with commentary data, shot attempts, substitutions, cards, fouls! Including #WorldCup matches like #SRB #CRC

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4 years

@benbbaldwin

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@Stat_Ron

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While this is obviously a limited view of QB performance, old man Russell Wilson is a clear upgrade over Kenny Pickett (and probably a better passer than Fields without the need of trading picks) - I'm intrigued by Russ in a heavy play-action Arthur Smith #Steelers offense

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@Stat_Ron

1 month

Pretty big deal in the world of sports right?

More Perfect Union

@MorePerfectUS

1 month

BREAKING: The FTC just banned non-compete agreements. The Federal Trade Commission has issued a final rule making it illegal for bosses to make workers sign noncompetes in any scenario, and voiding nearly all existing noncompetes. This is a game changer for American workers.

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@Stat_Ron

3 years

Yo yo yo that's @CMU_Stats Nick Citrone and #CMSACamp alum Katerina Wu! #NHLDraft #LetsGoPens

Pittsburgh Penguins

@penguins

3 years

The Penguins are on the clock! 🐧

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@Stat_Ron

5 years

From now on if you intend to cite the @nflscrapR EP, WP, #nflWAR models, please use the official JQAS citation #PUBLISHED w/ @stat_sam @bklynmaks

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@Stat_Ron

5 years

Fun first full day with @WMoneyball students teaching #rstats , seeing how passionate the students are, along with our @CMU_Stats summer program students visiting Dan Fox and #Pirates analytics tomorrow, reminded me of the most ridiculous email I’ve ever sent... but it worked

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@Stat_Ron

3 years

Thank you to @asmae_toumi for being vocal about this - the leaders of @SloanSportsConf need to be held accountable and actually address this prevalent problem to fundamentally change its culture - you are limiting accessibility to #sportsanalytics

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@Stat_Ron

2 months

Going to cover the classic Glickman & Stern (1998) model in #sportsanalytics class next week with Stan demo, naturally @StatsbyLopez & co. already did this (in BUGS)

A state-space model to evaluate sports teams | Statsbylopez

A few years ago at a statistics conference, Greg, Ben and I sat down to air a few greviences about our favorite sports. They were upset about baseball, and I was irked about hockey. Why the irritat...

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Ron Yurko

@Stat_Ron

11 months

Open Source Sports is officially alive on Substack: This will be a free newsletter where I highlight and translate the latest #sportsanalytics research in academic journals that the broader public may not be aware of: See you there!

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Ron Yurko

@Stat_Ron

3 years

@PFF_Eric What truly blows my mind about this, is the context with professional athletes regarding all the other supplements, crap, etc. they take with well known side-effects that can be pretty awful - and yet they won't get vaccinated???

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Ron Yurko

@Stat_Ron

4 years

Congrats to Rishav Dutta @rishavd64 ! His work on using Gaussian mixture models for #NFL pass coverage with #BigDataBowl tracking data was accepted for publication in JQAS! He worked incredibly hard, transforming this paper from its first version:

Unsupervised Methods for Identifying Pass Coverage Among Defensive...

Analysis of player tracking data for American football is in its infancy, since the National Football League (NFL) released its Next Gen Stats tracking data publicly for the first time in December...

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Ron Yurko

@Stat_Ron

5 years

Competing in #NFL #BigDataBowl ? Check out our updates to #GoingDeep available on @arxiv here: Improved model performance with better covariates and demonstrated the use of RFCDE for continuous-time @nflscrapR EP and WP values

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Ron Yurko

@Stat_Ron

5 years

Cole Tucker is reminding me how much I love baseball #LetsGoBucs #MOREFUN

Cannonball Corner

@CannonballCrner

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Ron Yurko

@Stat_Ron

5 years

Changepoint detection anyone? Definitely feel like that’s an under appreciated topic in sports statistics...

Beyond the Box Score

@BtBScore

5 years

Josh Bell has been feeling it

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Ron Yurko

@Stat_Ron

6 years

Spent some time updating my CV and website, and finally decided to start blogging to share more info about my projects and what I’m learning #mistakeswillbemade #blogdown

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Ron Yurko

@Stat_Ron

1 year

Another #dataviz crime (thanks @qntkhvn )

St. Louis Fed

@stlouisfed

1 year

An analysis looks at how defense spending among the nations with the highest expenditures has changed since 1992 and what may have driven the changes

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Ron Yurko

@Stat_Ron

5 years

Officially #NESSIS bound! #CANTWAIT #goingdeep #therewillbeGIFs

Ron Yurko

@Stat_Ron

5 years

Extremely excited to share the latest #sportsanalytics research with @CMU_Stats @FranciMatano @leerichardson09 Taylor Pospisil @stat_sam and @PittTweet @kpelechrinis Nick Granered - #GoingDeep : Continuous-time within-play valuation using #BigDataBowl data

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Ron Yurko

@Stat_Ron

5 years

Looking forward to spending next week teaching #rstats and #dataviz to high school students in the @WhartonSB #Moneyball Academy and Training Camp - great program built by @adiwyner @skdeshpande91 and others, continues a fun summer of #sportanalytics education and research

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Ron Yurko

@Stat_Ron

6 years

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU??!! #CrimesAgainstBarcharts

PFF Fantasy & Betting

@PFF_Fantasy

6 years

Carson Wentz just had his worst fantasy day ever. What does that mean for him going forward? Rankings risers and fallers entering Week 12:

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Ron Yurko

@Stat_Ron

3 years

If you're new to tracking data and looking for some example #BigDataBowl code - @kpelechrinis and I posted the code for our submission last year here: which also includes 'Going Deep' scripts #rstats

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Ron Yurko

@Stat_Ron

4 years

And next up we have Chris Watkins ( @yolo_pinyato @HockeyGraphs ) presenting his work on Racial Bias in Drafting and Development: The #NHL ’s Black Quarterback Problem #CMSAC20

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Ron Yurko

@Stat_Ron

5 years

Here’s the link to view the #GoingDeep slides from #NESSIS today and join us @CMU_Stats @CMUAnalytics November 1-2nd for #CMSAC19

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Ron Yurko

@Stat_Ron

4 years

Today we "officially" wrapped up the 2 month @CMU_Stats #CMSACamp #sportsanalytics themed undergrad research experience - I was fortunate enough to be the instructor of an incredible group of students who you should pay attention to as they grow in their careers & research 1/n

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