Essays about: "basketball thesis"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words basketball thesis.

1. 1. An investigation into the contract year phenomenon : Evidence from the NHL

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statistiska institutionen

   Author : Linus Rönnlund; Felix Abrahamsson; [2023]
   Keywords : Contract year; Fixed effect regression; NHL; Contract year phenomenon;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates whether players in the National Hockey League overperform during the last year of their contract. This phenomenon is called the contract year phenomenon and suggests that players have financial incentives to perform better during this specific season. READ MORE

3. 2. 3D Estimation of Joints for Motion Analysis in Sports Medicine : A study examining the possibility for monocular 3D estimation to be used as motion analysis for applications within sports with the goal to prevent injury and improve sport specific motion

   University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

   Author : Axel Persson; [2023]
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   Abstract : 3D joint estimation can be used to track bodies in areas such as entertainment, sports, biomedicine and surveillance to identify bodies from video streams and images. This is most commonly done with multi-view solutions but researchers are currently spending a large amount of resources into developing mono-view solutions. READ MORE

4. 3. Predicting basketball performance based on draft pick : A classification analysis 

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statistiska institutionen

   Author : Fredrik Harmén; [2022]
   Keywords : machine learning; linear discriminant analysis; k-nearest neighbors; support vector machines; random forests;

   Abstract : In this thesis, we will look to predict the performance of a basketball player coming into the NBA depending on where the player was picked in the NBA draft. This will be done by testing different machine learning models on data from the previous 35 NBA drafts and then comparing the models in order to see which model had the highest accuracy of classification. READ MORE

5. 4. Sport migration in a Global World: A Case study of Lithuanian Swimmers migration to the United States

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen Idrottsvetenskap (IDV)

   Author : Ignas Vaičaitis; [2021]
   Keywords : Migration; swimming; Lithuania; The United States; Collegiate sports;

   Abstract : In this master's thesis, I studied the migration of Lithuanian swimmers to the United States. This study covered the period from 1990 when Lithuania regained its independence from the Soviet Union to 2004 when it joined the European Union and opened up to the free labor market movement. READ MORE

6. 5. Transfer of reinforcement learning for a robotic skill

   University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Institutionen för system- och rymdteknik

   Author : Dulce Adriana Gómez Rosal; [2018]
   Keywords : Transfer learning; Reinforcement learning; Simulation; Robotics;

   Abstract : In this work, we develop the transfer learning (TL) of reinforcement learning (RL) for the robotic skill of throwing a ball into a basket, from a computer simulated environment to a real-world implementation. Whereas learning of the same skill has been previously explored by using a Programming by Demonstration approach directly on the real-world robot, for our work, the model-based RL algorithm PILCO was employed as an alternative as it provides the robot with no previous knowledge or hints, i. READ MORE