Research

Conference Presentations

Powers S, Yurko R
“Swinging, Fast and Slow: Untangling intention and timing error from bat speed and swing length”
2024 Cascadia Symposium on Statistics in Sports code, slides, video
2024 Saberseminar code, slides, video

Powers S, Stancil L, Consiglio N
“Estimating individual contributions to team success in women’s college volleyball”
2024 Sloan Sports Analytics Conference code, slides, video
2023 New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports code, slides, video

Powers S, Iglesias V
“Pitch trajectory density estimation for predicting future outcomes”
2023 Saberseminar code, slides, video

Powers S
“Jointly predicting exit velocity and launch angle for batter-pitcher matchups”
2016 Saberseminar code, slides

Powers S, Hastie T, Tibshirani R
“Nuclear penalized multinomial regression for predicting at bat outcomes in baseball”
2016 Joint Statistical Meetings code, slides

Powers S, Shayer E
“True wOBA: Estimation of true talent level for batters”
2016 SABR Analytics Conference code, slides, video

Powers S
“Rewarding batters for baserunner advancement: A ridge-regressed Rasch model”
2015 Saberseminar slides

Invited Panels

“Data Science and Analytics in Sports Performance and Management”
2024 Columbia Symposium on AI and Sports video

Peer Reviewed Publications

Sports

Powers S, Stancil L, Consiglio N (2025)
“Estimating individual contributions to team success in women’s college volleyball”
Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports 21(2) 117-135 article, code, preprint

Powers S, Hastie T, Tibshirani R (2018)
“Nuclear penalized multinomial regression with an application to predicting at bat outcomes in baseball”
Statistical Modelling 18(5-6) 388-410 article, code, preprint

Burton T, Powers S (2015)
“A linear model for estimating optimal service fraction in volleyball”
Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports 11(2) 117-129 article

Saavedra S, Powers S, McCotter T, Porter MA, Mucha PJ (2010)
“Mutually-antagonistic interactions in baseball networks”
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 389 1131-1141 article, preprint

Not Sports

Burton T, Powers S, Burns C, Conway G, Leach F, Senecal K (2023)
“A data-driven greenhouse gas emission rate analysis for vehicle comparisons”
SAE International Journal of Electrified Vehicles 12(1) article

Powers S, McGuire V, Bernstein L, Canchola AJ, Whittemore AS (2019)
“Evaluating disease prediction models using a cohort whose covariate distribution differs from that of the target population”
Statistical Methods in Medical Research 28(1) 309-320 article

Powers S, Qian J, Jung K, Schuler A, Shah NH, Hastie T, Tibshirani R (2018)
“Some methods for heterogeneous treatment effect estimation in high dimensions”
Statistics in Medicine 37(11) 1767-1787 article, preprint

McGinnis L, Powers S, Bangs D, Cherry A, Tibshirani R, Natkunam Y (2016)
“Double-hit diffuse large B-cell lymphomas with MYC gene rearrangements more commonly involve BCL2 than BCL6 gene rearrangements as the second hit: A large scale single institution study”
Laboratory Investigation 96 362A

Powers S, Hastie T, Tibshirani R (2015)
“Customized training with an application to mass spectrometric imaging of cancer tissue”
The Annals of Applied Statistics 9 1709-1725 article, preprint

Powers S, DeJongh M, Best AA, Tintle NL (2015)
“Cautions about the reliability of pairwise gene correlations based on expression data”
Frontiers in Microbiology 6 650 article

Powers S, Gopalakrishnan S, Tintle NL (2011)
“Assessing the impact of non-differential genotyping errors on rare variant tests of association”
Human Heredity 72 153-160 article

Luedtke A, Powers S, Petersen A, Sitarik A, Bekmetjev A, Tintle NL (2011)
“Evaluating methods for the analysis of rare variants in sequence data”
BMC Proceedings 5 S119 article

Petersen A, Sitarik A, Luedtke A, Powers S, Bekmetjev A, Tintle NL (2011)
“Evaluating methods for combining rare variant data in pathway-based tests of genetic association”
BMC Proceedings 5 S48 article

Student Presentations

Talks

Hahn J, Powers S, Pai M, Schaefer A
“The Two-Foot Rule: A game theoretic analysis of the pickoff limit in Major League Baseball”
2024 Cascadia Symposium on Statistics in Sports slides, video
2024 Saberseminar video

Consiglio N, Powers S
“Modifying k-means clustering to optimize defensive positioning in volleyball”
2024 Women in Sports Data Symposium slides, video

Brover J, Powers S
“Do we learn more about AAA batters when they face better pitches?”
2024 Saberseminar slides, video

Haugen D, Powers S
“Time warping for clustering pitcher deliveries”
2024 Saberseminar slides, video

Posters

Sepúlveda E, McClellan M, Powers S
“A statistical approach to sport climbing difficulty and progression”
2024 Cascadia Symposium on Statistics in Sports pdf

Kang A, Powers S, Curson T
“Not All Features Are Created Equal: Player clustering and evaluation”
2024 Opta Forum pdf