Measuring individual worker output in a complementary team setting: Does regularized adjusted plus minus isolate individual NBA player contributions?

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A Shot Quality Adjusted Plus-minus for the Nhl

We explore two regression models for creating an adjusted plus-minus statistic for the NHL. We compare an OLS regression models and a penalized gamma-lasso regression model. The traditional plus-minus metric is a simple marginal statistic that allocates a +1 to players for scoring a goal and a -1 for allowing a goal according to whether they were on the ice. This is a very noisy and uninformati...

Predicting NBA Player Performance

Predicting the outcomes of sporting events and the performances of athletes represents a natural application for machine learning. Major, professional sports such as the NBA, NFL, and MLB contain a significant amount of easily accessible data whose outcomes and player performances tend to be randomly distributed and offer attractive data to predict. The NBA is particularly well suited for machi...

Measuring Individual Exposomes

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Individual Incentives within Team Competitions

This paper develops a theoretical model to show the effects of simultaneously having both a competition between groups and one among the individuals of a tournament. The players are divided up among teams and compete for a flat bonus for winning the team competition. At the same time, their efforts also determine if they will win another flat bonus from winning the individual game among all the...