Building a smarter eye to read a ball's spin
A camera that physically follows a ball in flight, cancels its travel, and reads the spin off the surface — live, on the regular ball, at 750 measurements a second.
arXiv preprint
Sports analytics
Measuring the game — events, ratings, and high-frequency physical signals.
Football's foundation-model moment
One reusable embedding of every on-ball event, learned BERT-style with the player names stripped out — and reused for expected goals, action value, and scouting.
arXiv:2606.09327
Elo was right by accident — here's the theory it stumbled onto
A sixty-year-old chess-rating trick turns out to be a special case of a clean statistical principle — one that extends naturally to draws, scorelines, and whole-field rankings, with fairness baked in.
arXiv:2604.09143