Members

Department of Statistics & Data Science, Carnegie Mellon University

  • Ron Yurko - PhD student
  • Sam Ventura, PhD - Affiliated faculty and Director of Hockey Research for Pittsburgh Penguins
  • Francesca Metano - PhD candidate
  • Lee Richardson - PhD candidate
  • Taylor Pospisil - PhD candidate
  • Peter Elliot - PhD candidate
  • Xiaoyi Yang - PhD student
  • Niccolo Dalmasso - PhD student
  • Nick Citrone - Pittsburgh Penguins, former undergrad and master’s student

University of Pittsburgh

  • Konstantinos Pelechrinis, PhD - Associate Professor, School of Computing & Information
  • Nicholas Granered - PhD student, Department of Statistics

Research

Software

fcscrapR

R package to scrape soccer commentary and statistics from ESPN. https://github.com/ryurko/fcscrapR.

nflWAR

An R package to compute WAR for offensive players using nflscrapR. https://github.com/ryurko/nflWAR.

nflscrapR

Developing R package with Max Horowitz and Sam Ventura that allows R users to utilize and analyze data from the National Football League (NFL) API. The functions in this package allow users to perform analysis at the play and game levels on single games and entire seasons. With open-source data, the development of reproducible advanced NFL metrics can occur at a more rapid pace and lead to growing the football analytics community. https://github.com/maksimhorowitz/nflscrapR.

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