ATHLETE RATING IN MULTICOMPETITOR GAMES WITH SCORED OUTCOMES VIA MONOTONE TRANSFORMATIONS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Che, Jonathan; Glickman, Mark
• 署名单位: Harvard University
• 刊物名称: ANNALS OF APPLIED STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1932-6157
• DOI: 10.1214/23-AOAS1832
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 1236-1252
• 关键词: football; models

摘要

Sports organizations often want to estimate athlete strengths. For games with scored outcomes, a common approach is to assume observed game scores follow a normal distribution conditional on athletes' latent abilities, which may change over time. In many games, however, this assumption of conditional normality does not hold. To estimate athletes' time -varying latent abilities using nonnormal game score data, we propose a Bayesian dynamic linear model with flexible monotone response transformations. Our model learns nonlinear monotone transformations to address nonnormality in athlete scores and can be easily fit using standard regression and optimization routines, which we implement in the dlmt package in R. We demonstrate our method on data from several Olympic sports, including biathlon, diving, rugby, and fencing.