A bunch more conferences added to the thread today. Also, all the ongoing conf. tournament tables are updated at the associated links in thread or filter to your favorite conference at: lbenz730.shinyapps.io/recspecs_baske…

JOHN POULAKIDAS BURIES A CONTESTED THREE TO LIFT YALE PAST PRINCETON 😱 The Bulldogs will play in their 5th straight Ivy League Championship game tomorrow 👀 Yale Men's Basketball (via ESPN)

Ivy League basketball is awesome

BACK TO BACK 🏆🏆 Down goes Cornell, 90-84! #ThisIsYale

🏆 THE YALE BULLDOGS ARE BACK-TO-BACK IVY LEAGUE TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS. 🏆 Yale Men's Basketball 🌿🏀 #IvyMadness | TIAA

It was always THREE BID IVY. 🌿🏀 🌿 No. 10 Harvard Women's Basketball 🌿 No. 11 Columbia Women's Basketball 🌿 No. 11 Princeton WBB NCAA March Madness | #3BidIvy

2025 March Madness 👿 Duke 23% 🐯 Auburn 22% 🐊 Florida 17% 🔴 Houston 13% 🐘 Alabama 6% The field 19% lbenz730.shinyapps.io/recspecs_baske…

Fun and wonky discovery related to measuring "excitement" from a win probability graph: Current approach: sum the absolute change in win probability from play to play Alternate approach: Summing Kullback-Liebler divergence from play to play 1/

So much great research at last night’s Poster Session! 🎉It was awesome seeing you all there—check out the highlights below ⬇️ 📸 Shoutout to Luke Benz (Harvard Biostats PhD student) repping his first-author AJE paper! See you tonight at 6:30pm for Round 2 of posters! #SER2025

Mbeng, Poulakidas, Wolf Headed to the NBA #ThisIsYale yalebulldogs.com/news/2025/6/27…

New #CMSAC #SportsAnalytics paper on evaluating change of direction in the #NFL by myself and Ron Yurko arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06122 Spoiler alert: DK Metcalf displays straight-line, less agile movement, while George Pickens exhibits erratic, more variable directional movement.

Excited for CMU Statistics & Data Science at #NESSIS! nessis.org + PhD student Michele Sezgin poster: Does furosemide make horses run faster? + qntkhvn talk: #NFL change of direction arxiv.org/abs/2507.06122 + Myself (w/ Luke Benz) talk: College Football Volatility #sportsanalytics