Luke Benz @recspecs730
PhD Student @HarvardBiostats | Past: Data Scientist @medidata, @Yale ('19), President @YaleSportsGroup | Interests: Sports/Stats/Health lukebenz.com Boston, MA Joined March 2016-
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Excited for @CMU_StatDS at #NESSIS! nessis.org + PhD student @michelesezgin poster: Does furosemide make horses run faster? + @qntkhvn talk: #NFL change of direction arxiv.org/abs/2507.06122 + Myself (w/ @recspecs730) talk: College Football Volatility #sportsanalytics
New #CMSAC #SportsAnalytics paper on evaluating change of direction in the #NFL by myself and @Stat_Ron arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06122 Spoiler alert: DK Metcalf displays straight-line, less agile movement, while George Pickens exhibits erratic, more variable directional movement.
Mbeng, Poulakidas, Wolf Headed to the NBA #ThisIsYale yalebulldogs.com/news/2025/6/27…
So much great research at last night’s Poster Session! 🎉It was awesome seeing you all there—check out the highlights below ⬇️ 📸 Shoutout to Luke Benz (Harvard Biostats PhD student) repping his first-author AJE paper! See you tonight at 6:30pm for Round 2 of posters! #SER2025
Fun and wonky discovery related to measuring "excitement" from a win probability graph: Current approach: sum the absolute change in win probability from play to play Alternate approach: Summing Kullback-Liebler divergence from play to play 1/
2025 March Madness 👿 Duke 23% 🐯 Auburn 22% 🐊 Florida 17% 🔴 Houston 13% 🐘 Alabama 6% The field 19% lbenz730.shinyapps.io/recspecs_baske…
It was always THREE BID IVY. 🌿🏀 🌿 No. 10 @HarvardWBB 🌿 No. 11 @CULionsWBB 🌿 No. 11 @PrincetonWBB @MarchMadnessWBB | #3BidIvy
Ivy League basketball is awesome
🏆 THE YALE BULLDOGS ARE BACK-TO-BACK IVY LEAGUE TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS. 🏆 @YaleMBasketball 🌿🏀 #IvyMadness | @TIAA
BACK TO BACK 🏆🏆 Down goes Cornell, 90-84! #ThisIsYale
JOHN POULAKIDAS BURIES A CONTESTED THREE TO LIFT YALE PAST PRINCETON 😱 The Bulldogs will play in their 5th straight @IvyLeague Championship game tomorrow 👀 @YaleMBasketball (via @espn)
A bunch more conferences added to the thread today. Also, all the ongoing conf. tournament tables are updated at the associated links in thread or filter to your favorite conference at: lbenz730.shinyapps.io/recspecs_baske…
A bunch more conferences added to the thread today. Also, all the ongoing conf. tournament tables are updated at the associated links in thread or filter to your favorite conference at: lbenz730.shinyapps.io/recspecs_baske…

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