Congratulations to James Reade on winning the MIT Sloane Sports Analytics Conference – Research Papers Competition.
This is the winning paper: ‘Do Behavioral Considerations Cloud Penalty-Kick Location Optimization in Professional Soccer: Game Theory & Empirical Testing using Polynomial Regression and ML Gradient Boosting’ by Alivia Uribe, Shane Sanders, Justin Ehrlich, James J. Reade, and Carl Singleton.
The paper is open access here.