TDDE64 Sports Analytics

Course information

Lectures and reading material

• Introduction (Patrick Lambrix)
  • slides
  • reading material
    • Swartz T, Where Should I Publish My Sports Paper?, The American Statistician, 2018. doi, pdf
    • See reference section in slides
• Ice Hockey Analytics research at IDA (Patrick Lambrix)
  • slides - Player performance in ice hockey
  • video - Player performance in ice hockey (Vetenskapsdagen 2021)
  • video - Ranking of players in ice hockey (MLSA 2020)
  • video - Identifying Player Roles in Ice Hockey (MLSA 2023)
  • video - Characterizing Playing Styles for Ice Hockey Players (LINHAC 2024)
  • reading material
    • Lambrix P, Carlsson N, Säfvenberg R, Goal-based Performance Metrics for Ice Hockey Accounting for Goal Importance, Journal of Sports Analytics, 11, 2025. doi
    • Ljung D, Carlsson N, Lambrix P, Player pairs valuation in ice hockey, 5th Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics, 82-92, Dublin, Ireland, 2018. pdf, doi
    • Lehmus Persson T, Kozlica H, Carlsson N, Lambrix P, Prediction of tiers in the ranking of ice hockey players, 7th Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics, 89-100, Gent, Belgium, 2020. pdf, doi
    • Olivestam A, Rosendahl A, Wilderoth E, Carlsson N, Lambrix P, Characterizing Playing Styles for Ice Hockey Players, Linköping Hockey Analytics Conference LINHAC 2024 Research Track, LECP 209, 39-50, Linköping, Sweden, 2024. doi
    • Sävfenberg R, Carlsson N, Lambrix P, Identifying Player Roles in Ice Hockey, 10th Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics - MLSA 2023, Torino, Italy, 2023. pdf, doi
• Football Analytics research at IDA (Patrick Lambrix)
  • slides - Player valuation in European football
  • reading material
    • Nsolo E, Lambrix P, Carlsson N, Player valuation in European football, 5th Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics, 42-54, Dublin, Ireland, 2018. pdf, doi
• Basketball Analytics research at IDA (Patrick Lambrix)
  • slides - NBA game prediction and season simulation
  • video - NBA game prediction and season simulation (MLSA 2021)
  • reading material
    • Gonzalez Dos Santos T, Wang C, Carlsson N, Lambrix P, Predicting Season Outcomes for the NBA, 8th Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics (2021), 129-142, Virtual Conference, 2022. pdf, doi
• Baseball Analytics (Marcus Bendtsen)
  • reading material
    • Bendtsen M, Regimes in baseball players' career data, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 31(6):1580-1621, 2017. doi
• student presentations (2025)
  student presentations earlier years

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Last updated: 2025-03-27