This was the week that many of the world’s machine learning experts met in Barcelona for the annual NIPS conference (Neural Information Processing Systems). Stephen Zheng, Yisong Yue and Patrick Lucey had the one sports-related conference paper: Generating Long-term Trajectories Using Deep Hierarchical Networks (pdf). Sports analytics has past the point of spreadsheets and databases. […]
Read More →Archive for January, 2017
Los Angeles Lakers 114 Toronto Raptors 123
LAL 114 TOR 123 – Toronto used a weird bench twin-tower lineup with Lowry-Ross-Nogueira-Joseph-Powell with good effect.
Read More →Minnesota Timberwolves 89 Portland Trail Blazers 95
MIN 89 POR 95 – McCollum carried Portland offense despite bad-shooting 2Q. Minnesota starters were ok in 2Q then awful in 3Q.
Read More →Atlanta Hawks 114 San Antonio Spurs 112
ATL 114 SAS 112 – 2Q, 3Q runs by Atlanta bench, Korver-Delaney-Muscala-HardawayJr, kept Hawks close. 4Q was shootout where Schroder-HardawayJr starred.
Read More →Indiana Pacers 117 Orlando Magic 104
IND 117 ORL 104 – Pacers have George-Young-Turner-Robinson-Teague emerging as a potential death lineup. Bad start doomed Magic.
Read More →Applied Sports Science newsletter – January 2, 2017
Applied Sports Science news articles, blog posts and research papers for January 2, 2017 At 38, James Harrison remains ‘a marvel’ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Gerry Dulac from December 30, 2016 … The Steelers were already down one linebacker because Alonzo Jackson was made inactive for the game. Now they were down another, and their leading […]
Read More →Miami Heat 98 Detroit Pistons 107
MIA 98 DET 107 – Detroit scored on 5 consecutive 3Q possessions with Leuer-Drummond-CaldwellPope-Jackson-Harris. Pistons continued the run into 4Q after pulling Jackson.
Read More →Oklahoma City Thunder 114 LA Clippers 88
OKC 114 LAC 88 – Abrines’ 3-pointers put the game away late-2Q. Roberson-Sabonis don’t fill their stat lines like Westbrook but you can see them contributing throughout the game.
Read More →Utah Jazz 91 Phoenix Suns 86
UTA 91 PHX 86 – Utah shut down Phoenix late-4Q. It was Hayward-Gobert scoring down the stretch for Jazz.
Read More →Charlotte Hornets 109 Cleveland Cavaliers 121
CHA 109 CLE 121 – Positive minutes for McCrae. It looks like Cleveland depended completely on James for playmaking.
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