Filling the gaps: A multiple imputation approach to estimating aging curves in baseball

Q Nguyen, GJ Matthews - Journal of Sports Analytics, 2024 - content.iospress.com
In sports, an aging curve depicts the relationship between average performance and age in
athletes' careers. This paper investigates the aging curves for offensive players in Major …

Modelling between-and within-season trajectories in elite athletic performance data

M Spyropoulou, JG Hopker, JE Griffin - arxiv preprint arxiv:2405.17214, 2024 - arxiv.org
Athletic performance follows a typical pattern of improvement and decline during a career.
This pattern is also often observed within-seasons as athlete aims for their performance to …

Assessing course difficulty and the effect of weather in amateur cross country running races

KJ Wilson, N Wilson - arxiv preprint arxiv:2405.09865, 2024 - arxiv.org
Cross country running races are different to track and road races in that the courses are not
typically accurately measured and the condition of the course can have a strong effect on the …