SSI Student Research Fairs
2023 OSU Sports and Society Initiative Undergraduate Research Fair and Sports Analytics Conference participants
- Pálamson Morthens, Águst, Levander, Sebastian, and Tim Keller. (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, University of Gothenburg, University of Basel) “Who keeps track of their marking assignments? Evaluating the performance of defenders in soccer by measuring their mistakes.”
- Napolitano, Mia. (California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo) “Evaluating Minor League Pay Based on Modern Philosophies: A Follow-Up Analysis”
- Galsky, Kyle. (University of Minnesota) “Is there a Winning Formula in the NHL?”
- Brill, Ryan. (University of Pennsylvania) “Entropy and March Madness”
- Seth, Tej. (University of Michigan) “Hack-a-Sack: Putting Defenders in Positions to Get to the Quarterback”
- Warmbier, Greta. (The Ohio State University) “Country Club Pricing from an Economic Lens”
- Smith, Alex. (Brock University) “Women in Leadership and its Effects on Women Athletes”
- Strzalka, John. (The Ohio State University) “Sports Participation and Adults' Alcohol Use”
- Bao, Zeke. (The Ohio State University) “The use of performance enhancing drugs in the NBA”
- Hartzell, Gavin. (The Ohio State University) “Sports on Wall Street: A Statistical Analysis”
- Elliott, Naveen, and Matt Kendig. (The Ohio State University) “Evaluating '23 NFL Pass Rush Prospects Based on Physical Metrics”
- Franke, Kai. (University of Minnesota) “Using Predicted Run Value to Evaluate Team and Division Strength”
- Fang, Yixuan. (A student in the Ohio State University (Columbus)) “Gender equality in the Olympic Games”
- Rogers, Jack. (University of Minnesota) “Re-evaluating the Way We Measure Baserunning with Bases Taken Over Expected (BTOE)”
- Blumhoefer, Isaac. (University of Minnesota) “MLB Pitch Comparison Tool”
- Balch, Jackson. (University of Minnesota: Twin Cities) “Success of Steal Probability Calculator”
- Hedgecock, Laryssa. (The Ohio State University) “Big Data Bowl Experience”
- Platt, John and Matt Kretchmar. (Denison University) “Statistical Equity in Ohio Cross Country Competition”
- Kodi, Shreya. (The Ohio State University) “The Evolution of the Baseball on the Game Performance”
2022 OSU Sports and Society Initiative Undergraduate Research Fair participants
- Arens, Adelyn. (The Ohio State University) “Sports participation and parent-child feelings of closeness"
- Zakariya, Raghdah and Lyndsay M.C. Hayhurst. (York University) “Trauma-and-Violence-Informed-Sport forDevelopment (TVISFD) approach within the work of practitioners and scholars in the sport-fordevelopment (SFD) field.”
- Iyer, Shivani and Dr. Kathleen Bachyncki. (Muhlenberg College ) “The Use of Helmets in Women's Lacrosse”
- Wang, Cody and Peter Donnelly. (University of Toronto ) “Access to playing fields in rugby and Cricket”
- Laube, Hannah. (Bowling Green State University ) “Title IX from the Prospective of Former Female Athletes”
- Saleh, Dylan. (Linnaeus University ) “How Former Elite Swimmers Experience the process of Dropout During Sports High School”
- Amico, Mary. (Miami University) “Miami University's Coaching History and student-athlete leadership in the Football Program.
2021 OSU Sports and Society Initiative Undergraduate Research Fair participants
- Rutan, Jacob. (The Ohio State University) “Let's Make Change”
- Bobby, Justin. (The Ohio State University) “The Effect of the Rooney Rule on NFL Coaches”
- Markey, Carleen and Nayan Patel. (Purdue University and The Ohio State University) “Identifying Archetypes in Women’s Hockey”
- Ratcliff, Kaitlin, Petersen, Cheyenne, Epstein, Dustin, Illecki, Julia, Dong, Rusi, Periack, Kaitlin,and Dr. Caitlin Clark. (University of Illinois) “Access and Barriers to Mental Health Resource Information in the NCAA Power 5 Conference School”
- Warmbier, Greta. (The Ohio State University) “Batting Effectiveness”
- Skor, Jacob. (The Ohio State University) “The Impact of College for MLB Draftees”
- Nothnagle, Emily. (The Ohio State University) “Sport Participation and the Development of Grit”
- Phanawn Bailey, Maurice Beavers, Scottie Ethington, Will Simpson (Otterbein University) “DEI in DIII Athletics”
- Lang, Mallie. (The Ohio State University) “How much are 4 and 5 Star Football Recruits Worth?”
- Hackes, Jack. (The Ohio State University) “Diversity of Golf with a Focus on African American Communities”
- Costanzo, Vinnie. (The Ohio State University) “Player Value by Position in MLB”
- Arens, Adelyn. (The Ohio State University) “Do You Have to be Rich to be an Athlete?”
- Jenkins, Riley. (The Ohio State University) “Exploring MLB Attendance Based on Salary of the Highest Paid Player on each Team”
2020 OSU Sports and Society Initiative Undergraduate Research Fair participants
- DeCort, Callie. "How Cost of Attendance Stipends are Creating New Precedents in NCAA Athletics."
- Feldman, Zach. "NFL Expected Completion Probability: Modeling passes in the NFL with publicly available data and reproducible research."
- Patel, Nayan. “A Model for Predicting D1 NCAA Hockey Games.”
- Sichel, Adam. "The Economic and Social Effects of Legalized Sports Gambling."
- Taylor, Corey. "Regression Discontinuities in the NFL Draft."
- Toorchen, Jasmine. "Study of Track Surface Type on Injury and Death in New York Horse Racing."
- Williams, Brooke. “Predicting Free Throws in the NBA.”
- Williams, Alexander, Clarke, Ben, and Seth Brugler. "MAYFIELD: Machine Learning Algorithm for Yearly Forecasting Indicators and Estimation of Long-run Player Development."
2019 OSU Sports and Society Initiative Undergraduate Research Fair participants
- Decort, Callie. “How Cost of Attendance Stipends are Creating New Precedents in Collegiate Athletics”
- Osterfeld, Shannon R. “Gender in the Olympics”
- Murphy, Dylan. “The Extinction of Kickoffs”
- Williams, Alexander. “A Jamesean Second-Order Points Created Conditional Probability Model for Performance Analytics in American Football”
- Chen, Willy. “Can we use AP rankings to predict the probability of winning?”
- Meyer, Julie. “Correlation between knee excursion during single leg hop loading phase and sagittal plane knee angle at peak vertical ground reaction force and initial contact”
SSI Funded Student Research
- Davis, Evan, and Chris Knoester. 2019. "Analyzing the Great Sport Myth: Evidence from the NSASS." Presented at the 2019 North American Society for the Sociology of Sports meetings in Virginia Beach, VA.
- Rockhill, Carter, Knoester, Chris, and Brian Turner. 2019. "Sports and Non-sports based Racial-Ethnic Prejudice."
- Presented at the 2019 North American Society for the Sociology of Sports meetings in Virginia Beach, VA.
- Tompsett, James, and Chris Knoester. 2019. "The Making of a College Athlete: High school experiences, socioeconomic advantages, and the likelihood of playing college sports." Presented at the 2019 North American Society for the Sociology of Sports meetings in Virginia Beach, VA.
- Tompsett, James, and Chris Knoester. "Family Socioeconomic Status and College Attendance: A consideration of individual-level and school-level effects" (under review)
- Ungureanu, Tiberiu. 2019. “Complementarity and Competency-Destroying Events: A comparative study of the American League and National League, before and after the introduction of the designated hitter.” Abstract submitted for the 2020 MIT Sloan Sports Analytic Conference Research Paper Competition.
- Williams, Alexander, Brugler, Seth, and Benjamin Clarke. 2019. "A Fast Approximate K-Nearest Neighbor Machine Learning Algorithm for NFL Career-Arc Regression.” Abstract submitted for the 2020 MIT Sloan Sports Analytic Conference Research Paper Competition. SSAC 2021 3rd Place Presentation
- Williams, Alexander. 2019. “Rationality and Efficiency in NFL Gambling Markets.” (under review)