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Predict football punt and kickoff return yards with fat-tailed distribution using GluonTS

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The player tracking data contains the player’s position, direction, acceleration, and more (in x,y coordinates). There are around 3,000 and 4,000 plays from four NFL seasons (2018–2021) for punt and kickoff plays, respectively. The data distribution for punt and kickoff are different.

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Identifying defense coverage schemes in NFL’s Next Gen Stats

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FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Quantitative evaluation We utilize 2018–2020 season data for model training and validation, and 2021 season data for model evaluation. Michael Chi is a Senior Director of Technology overseeing Next Gen Stats and Data Engineering at the National Football League. Each season consists of around 17,000 plays.

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Predict football punt and kickoff return yards with fat-tailed distribution using GluonTS

Identifying defense coverage schemes in NFL’s Next Gen Stats

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