2025 NESSIS Program:
Congratuations to Kendall Thomas (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) for winning the 2025 NESSIS student poster competition ("Analyzing Movement Dynamics in Elite Female Soccer Athletes").
Selected presentations from the 2025 NESSIS
(only presenting author(s) listed below)-
"rMetrics: A Statistically Motivated Framework for Player Evaluation
Using Residual Scores"
Robert Bajons, Vienna University of Economics and Business -
"Reward Systems in Sports"
Ben Baumer and Sarah Susnea, Smith College -
"Evaluating NBA Player Consistency through GARCH Modeling"
Josh Davila, Texas A&M University -
"The Impact of Skating Speed and Style with Tracking Data"
Joe Gratz, Stathletes -
"Expected Pass Value (xPV) - a Holistic Framework for Evaluating
Passing Situations in Soccer"
Tobias Harringer, Vienna University of Economics and Business -
"Evaluating NHL Point Production Forecasting Methods for Russian Skaters"
Erica James, Bryn Mawr College -
"Tackling Causality: Estimating Frame-Level Defensive Impact
with Multi-Agent Transformers"
Ben Jenkins, Florida Atlantic University -
"Clustering Aging Curves to Classify Athlete
Development and Predict Career Trajectories"
Yushi Liu, University of Waterloo -
"The Best of Both Worlds: Predicting Football
Coverages with Supervised and Unsupervised Learning"
Rouven Michels, Bielefeld University & TU Dortmund University -
"Wind vs 175 Grams of Plastic:
Exploring Weather Effects in Professional Ultimate Frisbee"
Jacob Miller, Shown Space -
"A Comps-Based Approach for Interpreting Tree-Based
Predictions with an Application to the NFL Draft"
Elisabeth Millington, Rice University -
"NFL CoD: A Bayesian Circular Mixed-Effects Model for
Explaining Variability in Directional Movement in American Football"
Quang Nguyen, Carnegie Mellon University -
"A Paradox of Blown Leads:
Rethinking Win Probability in Team Sports"
Jonathan Pipping, University of Pennsylvania -
"Does Lasix Make Horses Run Faster?"
Michele Sezgin, Carnegie Mellon University -
"Analyzing Movement Dynamics in Elite Female Soccer Athletes"
Kendall Thomas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -
"College Football Volatility:
A Bayesian state-space model of the transfer portal and NIL impact"
Ron Yurko, Carnegie Mellon University
Pictures from the 2025 NESSIS
Selected videos from the 2025 NESSIS
- Introductory Remarks by Mark Glickman and Scott Evans
- Talk by Ben Baumer and Sarah Susnea
- Talk by Robert Bajons
- Talk by Jonathan Pipping
- Talk by Ben Jenkins
- Talk by Quang Nguyen
- Talk by Rouven Michels
- Talk by Jason Osborne
- Talk by Tobias Harringer
- Talk by Judy Zhu
- Talk by Joe Gratz
- Talk by Guanyu Hu
- Talk by Ron Yurko
- Talk by Guoqing Diao
- Panel Discussion
Sponsors
We kindly thank the following organizations for their support of the 2025 NESSIS:
| Teamworks |
| Big League Advantage |
| Cleat Street |
| Cambridge Sports Analytics |
| Athlyticz |
| ASA Section on Statistics in Sports |
| Boston Red Sox |
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