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A data-driven visualization project that reconstructs every match of FIFA World Cup 2026 from recorded events, offering an impression built entirely from data.
This paper uses a Transformer-based model on MLB Statcast data to counterfactually optimize baseball pitch sequences, finding that optimizing both final and setup pitches can improve season-level statistics like K/9 by over 1.0.
TacticAI uses graph neural networks to represent players as nodes and their interactions as connections, allowing data scientists to test defensive setups by dragging and dropping players in real time.
This MIT Technology Review newsletter covers the rise of AI and data analytics in soccer, China's rapid construction of large nuclear reactors, and reports that autonomous drones may have killed soldiers for the first time.
Jesse Davis and his Sports Analytics Lab at KU Leuven use machine learning to analyze soccer data, revealing tactical insights like the value of kicking the ball out of bounds. Their open-source tools are influencing professional clubs.
This paper presents a constraint programming approach to determine NHL playoff clinching scenarios with n-day lookahead, using tree search and preprocessing techniques.