Statisticians Attended the Joint Statistics Meeting
The meeting was held in Washington, DC in early August 2022
Patti Frazer Lock organized and chaired an invited panel of 10 experts talking about increasing opportunities for undergraduates in statistics and data science. The title of the panel was ”The Future of Innovation: Encouraging Undergraduate Engagement in the Profession”
Robin Lock presented a talk on “Applications of Poisson Models for Rating Teams and Predicting Outcomes of Soccer Matches” which described joint work done with Brenden Bready ’22 on bivariate Poisson models for rating offensive and defensive abilities of soccer teams based on past league game results and predicting the outcomes of future matches.
As part of his senior year experience, Brenden created a Shiny app for downloading up-to-date match outcomes for the 25 different European soccer leagues, updating team ratings, forecasting future contests, tracking the accuracy of those predictions, and allowing for in-game computation of event probabilities.
Brenden is now pursuing a graduate degree in Statistics at Virginia Tech.
Here is a picture of Dr. Robin Lock presenting his and Brenden’s work.
Professor Michael Schuckers also attended the conference and served as an elected officer for the Section on Statistics in Sports of the American Statistical Association. He will be Program Chair for that section for 2023.