Ron Yurko (@Stat

Ron Yurko

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Ron Yurko

@Stat_Ron

Assistant Teaching Professor, Director of Carnegie Mellon #SportsAnalytics Center stat.cmu.edu/cmsac @CMU_StatDS

Pittsburgh, PA

stat.cmu.edu/~ryurko/

Joined March 2013

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Ron Yurko
@Stat_Ron
Apr 8, 2025
Excited to share that I'm working on a book: 'Statistical Methods in #SportsAnalytics'! This is the culmination of my education, research, and experience in teaching #statisticalthinking and modeling in #sportsanalytics! Thanks to Rob & @CRC_MathStats for the opportunity!
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Rob Calver
@RobCalver5
Apr 8, 2025
Delighted to have signed a contract with @Stat_Ron for an exciting new book on '#Statistical Methods in #SportsAnalytics' to be published by @CRC_MathStats in 2027! Watch this space for updates. statthinksportsanalytics.substack.com #DataScience #RStats @CarnegieMellon
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Ron Yurko
@Stat_Ron
Sep 9, 2018
Can we officially declare that LeVeon Bell has the worst agent in football?
Ron Yurko
@Stat_Ron
Jan 8, 2024
Tackles are flawed statistics. Thanks to Quang Nguyen (@qntkhvn), Larry Jiang, and Meg Ellingwood in this year's #BigDataBowl - we have created a new defensive metric based on halting the ball-carrier's forward progress: Momentum-Based Fractional Tackles kaggle.com/code/tindata/m…
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Ron Yurko
@Stat_Ron
Apr 11, 2022
I find it hard to believe that 10 years ago I graduated high school to begin @CarnegieMellon - now I'm incredibly excited to share I will be an Assistant Teaching Professor @CMU_Stats! I owe everything to my amazing advisors, mentors, friends, & family for all of their support!
Ron Yurko
@Stat_Ron
Jun 29, 2020
Replying to @nnstats
It's because the majority of individuals saying you should work unpaid are white men that only hire other white men from their alma mater with rich parents that paid for their entire college education and are debt-free. - my TED talk.
Ron Yurko
@Stat_Ron
Jun 7, 2019
Extremely excited to share the latest #sportsanalytics research with @CMU_Stats @FranciMatano @leerichardson09 Taylor Pospisil @stat_sam and @PittTweet @kpelechrinis Nick Granered - #GoingDeep: Continuous-time within-play valuation using #BigDataBowl data arxiv.org/abs/1906.01760
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Ron Yurko
@Stat_Ron
Jan 29, 2024
Replying to @ProFootballTalk
The framing of "analytics" in this manner, leads me to believe that both you and the coach that you spoke to have no idea what that word means
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Ron Yurko
@Stat_Ron
Jan 15, 2024
Students in my #sportsanalyics class are going to complete critiques of analysis they read online throughout the semester, initial list of potential sites so far (I won't have a comprehensive list but I'd greatly appreciate any recommendations)
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Ron Yurko
@Stat_Ron
Jan 31, 2018
Here it is, #nflscrapR research by @stat_sam @bklynmaks and myself has led to this - #nflWAR : A Reproducible Method for Offensive Player Evaluation in Football -explaining our full approach to estimating WAR in football and how to extend it with more data stat.cmu.edu/~ryurko/pdf/nf…
Ron Yurko
@Stat_Ron
May 6, 2020
It's official: @kpelechrinis and I are launching a new #statsinsports #sportsanalytics podcast @OpenSrcSports! Think of the podcast as a public reading group with each episode dedicated to a single paper featuring an author as the episode's guest!
Open Source Sports podcast
@OpenSrcSports
May 6, 2020
#HelloWorld Listen to the "Open Source Sports preview!" ⚓ anchor.fm/open-source-sp…
Ron Yurko
@Stat_Ron
Apr 8, 2022
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Carnegie Mellon Statistics & Data Science
@CMU_StatDS
Apr 8, 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Ron Yurko @Stat_Ron on his @CMU_Stats PhD defense on “Selective Inference Approaches for Augmenting Genetic Association Studies with Multi-Omics Metadata”! Co-advised by Kathryn Roeder @RoederKat and Max G’Sell. #cuethestarwarsgifs
Ron Yurko
@Stat_Ron
Jun 13, 2022
SAVE THE DATE: @CMU_Stats #CMSAC22 will be returning October 28-29! Stay tuned for more #sportsanalytics content coming soon... (rumor has it a #BigDataBowl / player-tracking data related workshop led by a CMU professor could be in the works) #statsinsports #datascience #rstats
Ron Yurko
@Stat_Ron
Jan 7, 2021
And it's in - @kpelechrinis and I have officially submitted our entry for the #BigDataBowl: A ghosting framework for evaluating defender ability to limit YAC kaggle.com/ryurko21/evalu…
Ron Yurko
@Stat_Ron
Jul 3, 2018
Here's how you win in the #NFL - you throw the ball better than the other team. Run the ball better than the other team? Eh who cares... you don't outscore your opponents if you can't throw - all I'm using is the difference between a team's EPA/Att for OFF and DEF from #nflscrapR