1. SOCCER ANALYTICS: AN EXAMINATION OF CURRENT APPROACHES FOR GAME OUTCOME PREDICTION AND THE POTENTIAL OF DEEP LEARNING WITH ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS Open Access Author: Gomez Lorente, Juan Title: SOCCER ANALYTICS: AN EXAMINATION OF CURRENT APPROACHES FOR GAME OUTCOME PREDICTION AND THE POTENTIAL OF DEEP LEARNING WITH ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS Area of Honors: Industrial Engineering Keywords: Machine LearningDeep LearningNeural NetworksArtificial Neural NetworksPoisson RegressionSoccerSports AnalyticsBettingPredictive ModellingMoneyball AnalyticsSoftMax ClassifierRegressioneffects encodingfeed-forward networksbackpropagationgradient descentresilient backpropagationNewton's MethodTaylor Series expansionManhattan RuleBroyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno algorithmBFGSQuasi-Newton Methods File: Download Juan_GomezLorente.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Hui Yang, Thesis SupervisorDr. Catherine Mary Harmonosky, Thesis Honors Advisor
2. A Qualitative Approach to Predicting the Success of NFL Draftees Open Access Author: Insley, Drew Title: A Qualitative Approach to Predicting the Success of NFL Draftees Area of Honors: Statistics Keywords: NFLSports AnalyticsStatisticsMachine Learning File: Download Insley_Thesis.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Andrew John Wiesner, Thesis SupervisorMatthew D Beckman, Thesis Honors Advisor
3. Heat Check: Holistic Performance and the Hot Hand Fallacy Open Access Author: Diehl, Sean Title: Heat Check: Holistic Performance and the Hot Hand Fallacy Area of Honors: Management Information Systems Keywords: Hot Hand FallacyConditional ProbabilitySports AnalyticsPerformance PsychologyBasketball AnalyticsFlow State File: Download Heat_Check_Thesis_Final_Submission.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Robert Alexander Novack, Thesis SupervisorJohn C Spychalski, Thesis Honors Advisor