Bayesian Stats Temper Thunder's Historic Pace

Resources

Resources & Recommendations

Books

• "Do Firms Maximize" by Romer - An economics paper that calculates an expected points model for football to determine if teams are making optimal decisions on fourth downs.

People Mentioned

• Cade Massey (Co-host of Wharton Moneyball) - Mentioned as a regular co-host.
• Shane Jensen (Co-host of Wharton Moneyball) - Mentioned as a regular co-host.
• Ryan Brill (Applied Math student, now with Utah Jazz) - Collaborated with Audi on the "Grid WAR" metric for ranking pitchers and also visited to discuss difficult problems in general.
• Jonathan Pippin (Second-year PhD student) - Collaborated on the xG+ project for soccer tracking data.
• Tion Chu (Masters in Data Science student) - Collaborated on the xG+ project for soccer tracking data.
• Paul Sabin (Senior Fellow) - Collaborated on the xG+ project for soccer tracking data.
• Kenny Watts (Undergraduate student) - Worked on a rugby paper, applying expected points models to rugby.
• Iwin Amrita (Undergraduate student) - Co-authored a paper on ranking tennis serves, which won an award at the Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Conference.
• Audrey (Rita) (Undergraduate student) - Co-authored a paper on ranking tennis serves, which won an award at the Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Conference.
• Talia (Undergraduate student, sophomore) - Working on the "RBIs above expected" baseball project.
• Lev (Undergraduate student, freshman) - Working on the "RBIs above expected" baseball project, after attending Moneyball Academy.
• Dion Simpkins (Associate Producer and Sound Engineer) - Credited for his role in the podcast production.
• Marissa Rinn (Producer) - Credited for her role in the podcast production.
• D. Patel (Producer) - Credited for his role in the podcast production.

Organizations & Institutions

• Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania - The host institution for the podcast and the research discussed.
• Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative (WASABI) - An initiative at Wharton that runs faculty research with undergraduates, co-directed by Audi Weiner.
• Wharton AI and Analytics Initiative - A larger umbrella brand run by Eric Bradlow, under which WASABI operates.
• Pro Football Focus FC (PFF FC) - A partner organization that provides soccer tracking data for research projects.
• Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Conference - A conference where students presented their award-winning research on tennis serves.
• SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) - An organization to which a baseball research paper is being submitted.

Journals & Publications

• Journal of Quantitative Analysis and Analytics in Sports - Mentioned as the most prestigious sports-oriented statistics journal for publishing research.
• Journal of Sports Statistics - Another journal mentioned for publishing sports analytics research.
• Annals of Applied Statistics - An elite statistics journal for methodological contributions.
• JASA (Journal of the American Statistical Association) - An elite statistics journal for methodological contributions.

Websites & Online Resources

• Wharton Research Notes (on WASABI webpage) - A resource for popularizations of research content, allowing readers to understand the work without the detailed math.
• arXiv - A platform for posting pre-publication manuscripts, especially in mathematics.
• SSRN (Social Science Research Network) - A platform for posting pre-publication manuscripts.