Projects

Research

Publications

Quang Nguyen, Ronald Yurko, Gregory J. Matthews. “Here Comes the STRAIN: Analyzing Defensive Pass Rush in American Football with Player Tracking Data”. The American Statistician, 2024. [arXiv; journal]
(Editors’ Choice Collection)
(Finalist, NFL Big Data Bowl 2023)

Quang Nguyen, Gregory J. Matthews. “Filling the Gaps: A Multiple Imputation Approach to Estimating Aging Curves in Baseball”. Journal of Sports Analytics, 2024. [arXiv; journal]
(Third Place, Open Methodology Track, Reproducible Research Competition, Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Conference 2022)

Benjamin S. Baumer, Gregory J. Matthews, Quang Nguyen. “Big ideas in sports analytics and statistical tools for their investigation”. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics, 2023. [arXiv; journal]

Quang Nguyen, Hannah Butler, Gregory J. Matthews. “An Examination of Olympic Sport Climbing Competition Format and Scoring System”. Journal of Data Science, 2022. [arXiv; journal]
(Winner, Open Methodology Track, Reproducible Research Competition, Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Conference 2021)
(Winner, Student Poster Award, UConn Sports Analytics Symposium 2021)

Quang Nguyen. “Poisson Modeling and Predicting English Premier League Goal Scoring”. New England Journal of Statistics in Data Science, 2023. [arXiv; journal]
(Co-winner, Poster Competition, Undergrad/MS Group, New England Statistical Society NextGen: Data Science Day 2020)

Preprints

Ronald Yurko, Quang Nguyen, Konstantinos Pelechrinis. “NFL Ghosts: A framework for evaluating defender positioning with conditional density estimation”. arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.17220, 2024+. [arXiv]

Quang Nguyen, Ruitong Jiang, Meg Ellingwood, Ronald Yurko. “Fractional Tackles: Leveraging Player Tracking Data for Within-Play Tackling Evaluation in American Football”. arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.14769, 2024+. [arXiv]
(Finalist, NFL Big Data Bowl 2024)

Other

Quang Nguyen, Larry Jiang, Meg Ellingwood, Ron Yurko. “Momentum-based fractional tackles”. NFL Big Data Bowl. Kaggle, 2024. [link]

Gregory J. Matthews, Quang Nguyen. “STRAIN: Sacks, Tackles, Rushing, Aggression INdex”. NFL Big Data Bowl. Kaggle, 2023. [link]

Benjamin S. Baumer, Quang Nguyen, Gregory J. Matthews. “CRAN Task View: Sports Analytics”. The Comprehensive R Archive Network, 2022. [link]

Miscellaneous

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