Ioannis Ntzoufras

Ioannis Ntzoufras is a Professor of Statistics at the Department of Statistics at Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB). Currently he serves as the Head of the Department of Statistics (2010-2012). He is one of the founders of the AUEB Sports Analytics Group and and he is working in the area of Bayesian modelling and computation with emphasis in variable selection. He has published a worldwide best seller book on Bayesian modelling. In parallel with his main research activities he has worked on modelling football data, volleyball analytics, measures of competitive balance in sports leagues and performance analysis in Volleyball.

Open Data

Performance and characteristics of 1,602 tennis players

16.11.2020

Kelly Kiki, Angelos Alexopoulos, Ioannis Ntzoufras

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Data on 1,602 tennis players regarding their demographic and technical characteristics, performance and prize money earnings over the last 20 years.

Methodology

Analysis of Stefanos Tsitsipas’ professional trajectory

16.11.2020

Angelos Alexopoulos, Kelly Kiki, Ioannis Ntzoufras

How we grouped 1,602 tennis players to find out who is more similar to Stefanos Tsitsipas and to predict the latter’s career path over the next decade, by applying simple machine learning techniques and statistical methods.