Publications

A selection of my recent sports analytics publications is below. A complete overview of my publications is on Lirias and Google Scholar.

• VAEP: An Objective Approach to Valuing On-the-Ball Actions in Soccer. Tom Decroos, Lotte Bransen, Jan Van Haaren and Jesse Davis. Proceedings of the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2020). July 2020.

• Player Chemistry: Striving for a Perfectly Balanced Soccer Team. Lotte Bransen and Jan Van Haaren. Proceedings of the 14th MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. March 2020.

• Actions Speak Louder Than Goals: Valuing Player Actions in Soccer. Tom Decroos, Lotte Bransen, Jan Van Haaren and Jesse Davis. Proceedings of the 25th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD 2019). August 2019.

• Choke or Shine? Quantifying Soccer Players’ Abilities to Perform Under Mental Pressure. Lotte Bransen, Pieter Robberechts, Jan Van Haaren and Jesse Davis. Proceedings of the 13th MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. March 2019.