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48 results for Fantasy Football

Study combines chit-chat and goal-oriented dialogue in fantasy games.

problem Combining naturalistic chit-chat with goal-oriented tasks in fantasy games.
method Trained a goal-oriented model with reinforcement learning against an imitation-learned chit-chat model using two approaches.
result Both models outperform a baseline and can converse naturally to achieve goals.

We prove that every spherical football (also known as a spherical soccer ball) is a branched cover, branched only in the vertices, of the standard football made up of 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons. We also give examples showing that the corresponding result is not true for footballs of higher genera. Moreover, we classi…

2006-06-08abs ↗pdf ↗

The study uses unsupervised machine learning to identify top European football teams.

problem Selecting teams for the new European football Super League.
method Used Laplacian eigenmaps clustering on performance data.
result Successfully identified four clusters of teams based on performance metrics.

D-branes on noncommutative spaces mimic string theory, offering new insights into mirror symmetry.

problem Exploring noncommutative mirror symmetry through D-branes on noncommutative Calabi-Yau spaces.
method Constructing noncommutative ringed spaces from local resolutions, realizing D-branes as morphisms, and defining kinetic energy.
result Dynamical D-branes on noncommutative spaces can be described by a Polyakov-like action, suggesting a bridge between string theory and noncommutative geometry.

The goal of this thesis is to investigate the potential of predictive modelling for football injuries. This work was conducted in close collaboration with Tottenham Hotspurs FC (THFC), the PGA European tour and the participation of Wolverhampton Wanderers (WW). Three investigations were conducted: 1. Predicting the rec…

2016-09-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Recent progress in the field of reinforcement learning has been accelerated by virtual learning environments such as video games, where novel algorithms and ideas can be quickly tested in a safe and reproducible manner. We introduce the Google Research Football Environment, a new reinforcement learning environment wher…

2019-07-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Compact Ricci solitons on surfaces have at most two cone points, and are known as Hamilton's footballs. In this note we completely describe the degenerations of these footballs as one or both of the cone angles approaches zero. In particular, we show that Hamilton's famous non-compact cigar soliton is the Gromov--Hausd…

2019-05-02abs ↗pdf ↗

TacticAI helps football coaches improve tactics by analyzing corner kicks.

problem Developing effective responses to rival teams' tactics algorithmically.
method TacticAI combines predictive and generative components to suggest player setups and position adjustments.
result TacticAI's model suggestions are favored over existing tactics 90% of the time by football domain experts.

AI benchmarks evaluate football team performance using generative models.

problem Evaluating human performance in complex interactive tasks is error-prone and unreliable.
method Trained Conditional VRNN Model on player and ball tracking data to imitate and predict team interactions.
result Trained model as a useful benchmark for evaluating team performance in football.

Twitter has been proven to be a notable source for predictive modelling on various domains such as the stock market, the dissemination of diseases or sports outcomes. However, such a study has not been conducted in football (soccer) so far. The purpose of this research was to study whether data mined from Twitter can b…

2014-11-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Study examines heart and football-shaped metrics, verifying geometric structure.

problem Analyzing reducible spherical conical metrics and their geometric properties.
method Examined 1-parameter heart shape and 3-parameter football shape families, verified structure theorem, used explicit metric and geodesic calculations.
result Naturally arise from Abelian differentials of the third kind, offer new evidence for spherical geometry and complex analytic structure interaction.

Bray's football theorem (\cite{bray2009penrose}) is a weakening of Bishop theorem in dimension 3. It gives a sharp volume upper bound for a three dimensional manifold with scalar curvature larger than n(n1)n(n-1) and Ricci curvature larger than ε\varepsilon. This paper extends Bray's football theorem in high dimensions, …

2019-09-03abs ↗pdf ↗

A risk-neutral valuation framework is developed for pricing and hedging in-play football bets based on modelling scores by independent Poisson processes with constant intensities. The Fundamental Theorems of Asset Pricing are applied to this set-up which enables us to derive novel arbitrage-free valuation formulæ for c…

2018-10-29abs ↗pdf ↗

We show that spheres of positive constant curvature with nn (n3n\geq3) conic points converge to a sphere of positive constant curvature with two conic points (or called an (American) football) in Gromov-Hausdorff topology when the corresponding singular divisors converge to a critical divisor in the sense of Troyanov.…

2015-01-27abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper studies the normalized Ricci flow on surfaces with conical singularities. It's proved that the normalized Ricci flow has a solution for a short time for initial metrics with conical singularities. Moreover, the solution makes good geometric sense. For some simple surfaces of this kind, for example, the tear …

2009-01-16abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we study the discrete Morse flow for the Ricci flow on football, which is the 2-sphere with removed north and south poles and with the metric g0g_0 of constant scalar curvature, and and for Porous media equation on a bounded regular domain in the plane. We show that with a suitable assumption about $g(0)…

2012-03-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Study on spherical conical metrics and their reducibility on compact Riemann surfaces.

problem Existence and geometric structure of reducible spherical conical metrics.
method Analysis of monodromy groups and geometric cutting of surfaces.
result Existence of reducible spherical conical metrics with saddle points on the same geodesic.

We study the relationship between social media output and National Football League (NFL) games, using a dataset containing messages from Twitter and NFL game statistics. Specifically, we consider tweets pertaining to specific teams and games in the NFL season and use them alongside statistical game data to build predic…

2013-10-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Counting HCMU sphere components using weighted trees.

problem Counting components of moduli space of HCMU spheres.
method Using weighted plane trees to characterize HCMU spheres with a single integral conical angle, and an explicit counting formula is derived.
result An explicit counting formula for the components of the moduli space of HCMU spheres.

New flow defined to solve Hull-Strominger system, with estimates and convergence results.

problem Constructing solutions to the Hull-Strominger system of equations.
method Introducing a natural extension of pluriclosed flow and using string algebroids and higher gauge theory.
result Proves global existence and convergence of the flow on special backgrounds.

Study proposes new methods to convert betting odds into accurate probabilities for sports forecasting.

problem Convert betting odds to accurate outcome probabilities for sports forecasting and market efficiency analysis.
method Proposes two methods: Odds-Only-Equal-Profitability-Confidence (OO-EPC) and Favourite-Longshot-Bias-Adjusted Generalised Linear Model (FL-GLM).
result Proposed methods outperform existing methods in empirical tests and real-world applications.

Deep learning has revolutionised many fields, but it is still challenging to transfer its success to small mobile robots with minimal hardware. Specifically, some work has been done to this effect in the RoboCup humanoid football domain, but results that are performant and efficient and still generally applicable outsi…

2018-07-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Solves Cheltsov-Rubinstein problem for complex surfaces with two boundary components.

problem Classify strongly asymptotically log del Pezzo surfaces with Kähler-Einstein edge metrics.
method Analyzes the angles and boundary components of the surfaces to determine Kähler-Einstein metrics existence.
result Necessary and sufficient condition on angles for Kähler-Einstein edge metrics existence.

We propose dynamical systems trees (DSTs) as a flexible class of models for describing multiple processes that interact via a hierarchy of aggregating parent chains. DSTs extend Kalman filters, hidden Markov models and nonlinear dynamical systems to an interactive group scenario. Various individual processes interact a…

2012-07-11abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper classifies and proves properties of ALE manifolds and orbifolds.

problem Classifying and understanding the structure of ALE manifolds and orbifolds.
method Proving structure theorems and using properties of conformal blow-up and compactification.
result Several classifications and properties of ALE manifolds and orbifolds are given in low dimensions.

Fan tokens surged before World Cup matches, but declined during them, revealing cognitive biases.

problem Analyzing the impact of FIFA World Cup matches on fan tokens.
method Event study and intraday analysis of blockchain-based fan tokens.
result Fan tokens experienced a surge in returns six months before the World Cup, followed by a decline during the matches, revealing asymmetries in performance.

In-game win probability models, which provide a sports team's likelihood of winning at each point in a game based on historical observations, are becoming increasingly popular. In baseball, basketball and American football, they have become important tools to enhance fan experience, to evaluate in-game decision-making,…

2019-06-12abs ↗pdf ↗