PerfoRank: cluster-based performance ranking for improved performance evaluation and estimation in professional cycling

B Janssens, M Bogaert - Machine Learning, 2025 - Springer
Current cycling analytics solutions do not account for the race course profile or the level of
the competition. Therefore, this paper develops a unique two-stage clustering-based ranking …

Exploring Table Tennis Analytics: Domination, Expected Score and Shot Diversity

G Calmet, A Erades, R Vuillemot - … on Machine Learning and Data Mining …, 2023 - Springer
Detailed sports data, including fine-grained player, ball positions, and action types, is
becoming increasingly available thanks to advancements in sensor and video tracking …

Performance Measurement 2.0: Towards a Data-Driven Cyclist Specialization Evaluation

B Janssens, M Bogaert - International Workshop on Machine Learning and …, 2023 - Springer
Current cycling analytics solutions do not account for either the raced course profile or the
level of the competition. Therefore, this paper suggests a two-stage approach which initially …

Boulder2Vec: Modeling Climber Performances in Professional Bouldering Competitions

E Baron, V Hau, Z Weng - arxiv preprint arxiv:2411.02343, 2024 - arxiv.org
Using data from professional bouldering competitions from 2008 to 2022, we train a logistic
regression to predict climber results and measure climber skill. However, this approach is …