Cowritten by Brendan Kumagai, Mikael Nahabedian, Thibaud Châtel, and Tyrel Stokes
This is part 2 of a two part series introducing our Bayesian space-time model for evaluating offensive sequences and player actions. In part 1, we outlined our methodology to build the model and explained the reasoning behind the key metric, Possession Added Value (PAV), derived from it. In this second part, we will illustrate how our model and the PAV metric can be used for team and individual player analysis. Read Part 1 here.
Introduction
Since the Big Data Cup in March, our team has continued to improve the model to better estimate Possession Added Value of offensive sequences. With some extra time on our hands we cleaned up a few coding bugs and made two changes to the underlying models themselves. First, we have explicitly separated failed and completed passes. Second, we drastically improved our models which predict…
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