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# MLSA 2015
Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics

### Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics
co-located with 2015 European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2015)

### Porto, Portugal, September 11th, 2015.

Edited by

### Jesse Davis, KU Leuven, Belgium
Jan Van Haaren, KU Leuven, Belgium
Albrecht Zimmermann, University of Caen, France

## Table of Contents

- Preface
- Predictive Efficacy of a New Association Football League Format in Polish Ekstraklasa 1-9
  Jan Lasek, Marek Gagolewski
- Graph-based Approaches for Analyzing Team Interaction on the Example of Soccer 10-17
  Markus Brandt, Ulf Brefeld
- Valuation of Climbing Activities Using Multi-Scale Stochastic Neighbour Embedding 18-27
  Romain Herault, Jérémie Boulanger, Ludovic Seifert, John Aldo Lee
- Identifying Avatar Aliases in StarCraft 2 28-35
  Olivier Cavadenti, Victor Codocedo, Mehdi Kaytoue, Jean-François Boulicaut
- What Can Hawk-Eye Data Reveal about Serve Performance in Tennis?36-45
  François Rioult, Sami Mecheri, Bruno Mantel, François Kauffmann, Nicolas Benguigui
- Network-based Measures for Predicting the Outcomes of Football Games 46-54
  Paolo Cintia, Salvatore Rinzivillo, Luca Pappalardo
- Learning Stochastic Models for Basketball Substitutions from Play-by-Play Data 55-64
  Harish S. Bhat, Li-Hsuan Huang, Sebastian Rodriguez
- Exploring Chance in NCAA Basketball 65-76
  Albrecht Zimmermann
- What is the Value of an Action in Ice Hockey? Q-Learning for the NHL 77-86
  Oliver Schulte, Zeyu Zhao, Kurt Routley
- Football Player's Performance and Market Value 87-95
  Miao He, Ricardo Cachucho, Arno Knobbe
- Estimating the Maximal Speed of Soccer Players on Scale 96-103
  Laszlo Gyarmati, Mohamed Hefeeda

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