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Basketball shot location data provide valuable summary information regarding players to coaches, sports analysts, fans, statisticians, as well as players themselves. Represented by spatial points, such data are naturally analyzed with…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-11-24 Fan Yin , Jieying Jiao , Guanyu Hu , Jun Yan

Throughout the analytical revolution that has occurred in the NBA, the development of specific metrics and formulas has given teams, coaches, and players a new way to see the game. However - the question arises - how can we verify any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Eamon Mukhopadhyay

Dynamically planning in complex systems has been explored to improve decision-making in various domains. Professional basketball serves as a compelling example of a dynamic spatio-temporal game, encompassing context-dependent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Xiusi Chen , Wei-Yao Wang , Ziniu Hu , David Reynoso , Kun Jin , Mingyan Liu , P. Jeffrey Brantingham , Wei Wang

Understanding the principles of real-world biological multi-agent behaviors is a current challenge in various scientific and engineering fields. The rules regarding the real-world biological multi-agent behaviors such as team sports are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Keisuke Fujii

Designing human-centered AI-driven applications require deep understandings of how people develop mental models of AI. Currently, we have little knowledge of this process and limited tools to study it. This paper presents the position that…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Jennifer Villareale , Jichen Zhu

Determining the value of basketball players through analyzing the players' behavior is important for the managers of modern basketball teams. However, conventional methods always utilize isolated statistical data, leading to ineffective and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Xin Du , Weihong Cai , Jianquan Liu , Ding Yu , Kai Xu , Wei Li

In this paper, we describe an approach to rank sport players based on their efficiency. Although is extremely useful to analyze the performance of team games there is no unanimity on the use of a single index to perform such a ranking. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-21 Víctor Blanco , Román Salmerón , Samuel Gómez-Haro

This work focuses on studying players behaviour in interactive narratives with the aim to simulate their choices. Besides sub-optimal player behaviour due to limited knowledge about the environment, the difference in each player's style and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Jessica Rivera-Villicana , Fabio Zambetta , James Harland , Marsha Berry

AI-controlled characters in fighting games are expected to possess reasonably high skills and behave in a believable, human-like manner, exhibiting a diversity of play styles and strategies. Thus, the development of fighting game AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Kaori Yuda , Shota Kamei , Riku Tanji , Ryoya Ito , Ippo Wakana , Maxim Mozgovoy

In many settings, machine learning models may be used to inform decisions that impact individuals or entities who interact with the model. Such entities, or agents, may game model decisions by manipulating their inputs to the model to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Trenton Chang , Lindsay Warrenburg , Sae-Hwan Park , Ravi B. Parikh , Maggie Makar , Jenna Wiens

Evaluating sports players based on their performance shares core challenges with evaluating healthcare providers based on patient outcomes. Drawing on recent advances in healthcare provider profiling, we cast sports player evaluation within…

Applications · Statistics 2026-02-27 Herbert P. Susmann , Antonio D'Alessandro

Despite growing interest in quantifying and modeling the scoring dynamics within professional sports games, relative little is known about what patterns or principles, if any, cut across different sports. Using a comprehensive data set of…

Applications · Statistics 2014-03-24 Sears Merritt , Aaron Clauset

Identifying significant shots in a rally is important for evaluating players' performance in badminton matches. While there are several studies that have quantified player performance in other sports, analyzing badminton data is remained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Wei-Yao Wang , Teng-Fong Chan , Hui-Kuo Yang , Chih-Chuan Wang , Yao-Chung Fan , Wen-Chih Peng

After a machine learning (ML)-based system is deployed, monitoring its performance is important to ensure the safety and effectiveness of the algorithm over time. When an ML algorithm interacts with its environment, the algorithm can affect…

In this paper, we propose two novel basketball metrics: ``expected points'' for team-based comparisons and ``expected points above average (EPAA)'' as a player-evaluation tool. Established within the Bayesian hierarchical model framework,…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2025-08-05 Benjamin Williams , Erin M. Schliep , Bailey Fosdick , Ryan Elmore

Statistical analysis and modeling is becoming increasingly popular for the world's leading organizations, especially for professional NBA teams. Sophisticated methods and models of sport talent evaluation have been created for this purpose.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Andreas Gavros , Foteini Gavrou

Computer vision and video understanding have transformed sports analytics by enabling large-scale, automated analysis of game dynamics from broadcast footage. Despite significant advances in player and ball tracking, pose estimation, action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Arnau Barrera Roy , Albert Clapés Sintes

In most sports, especially football, most coaches and analysts search for key performance indicators using notational analysis. This method utilizes a statistical summary of events based on video footage and numerical records of goal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Chenyao Li , Stylianos Kampakis , Philip Treleaven

Shooting location is a core indicator of offensive style in invasion sports. Existing basketball shot-chart analyses often use spatial information for descriptive visualization, location-based efficiency modeling, or clustering players into…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-26 Kazuhiro Yamada , Keisuke Fujii

In competitive sports it is often very hard to quantify the performance. A player to score or overtake may depend on only millesimal of seconds or millimeters. In racquet sports like tennis, table tennis and squash many events will occur in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-04 Katalin Hajdu-Szucs , Nora Fenyvesi , Jozsef Steger , Gabor Vattay