Past Meetings
2025 NESSIS
Program and abstracts
Congratulations 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
(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
Photographs from the 2025 NESSIS
Selected videos
- 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:
