Ryan Elmore

Ryan Elmore

Associate Professor of Business Information and Analytics

University of Denver

Biography

Ryan Elmore is an associate professor in the Department of Business Information and Analytics, Daniels College of Business. Prior to Daniels, he worked as a Senior Scientist in the Computational Sciences Center at the National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden, Colorado. He has also held positions at the Australian National University, Colorado State University, and Slide, Inc. Elmore’s research interests include statistics in sports, nonparametric statistical methods, and energy efficient high-performance computing. He is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of Quantitative Analysis of Sports (2015–present).

Ryan’s work has been featured in The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The Telegraph, The Guardian, and The Fried Egg Podcast.

Ryan’s full CV can be found here.

Interests
  • Sports Statistics
  • Energy-Aware High Performance Computing
  • Nonparametric Statistics
Education

  • PhD in Statistics, 2003

    Penn State University

  • MS in Statistics, 1998

    Miami University

  • BS in Mathematics, 1995

    Morehead State University

Skills

R

33%

Statistics

33%

Sports

34%

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Co-Founder
First Team Analytics
January 2022 – Present Denver
Co-Founder
 
 
 
 
 
Associate Professor
University of Denver
September 2021 – Present
 
 
 
 
 
Assistant Professor
University of Denver
September 2015 – August 2021
 
 
 
 
 
Computational Statistician
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
May 2010 – May 2015
 
 
 
 
 
Quantitative Researcher
Slide Inc
August 2008 – April 2010
 
 
 
 
 
Assistant Professor
Colorado State University
August 2005 – July 2008

Recent Posts

New R Packages and Package Site
Two new R packages are in development: NFLSimulator ISAR
Nov 14, 2020 1 min read R, R Packages
Loss Aversion in The Economist?!
A writer recently contacted me about pitching a story related to my paper with Andrew Urbaczewski on loss aversion in professional golf to The Economist. Low and behold, they bit and here is the result.
Apr 25, 2019 1 min read analytics, behavioral economics
A climb, a fall, a lucky man
If you are a climber, imagine the following scenario. If not, bear with me and just note that this initial story is why we do this sport. It’s Saturday, April 13 2019 and I am breathing quite hard and sweating.
Apr 15, 2019 5 min read
The Fried Egg
A co-author of mine (and my boss), Andrew Urbaczewski, and I were interviewed by Andy Johnson from The Fried Egg about our paper on loss version in professional golf. The link to the podcast is currently given at the top of The Fried Egg, episode 124.
Mar 27, 2019 1 min read loss aversion, golf analytics
On CCTV
Here is a clip of me on CCTV.
Mar 26, 2019 1 min read gambling, news
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Projects

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All Sports Other
ISAR
An R package for Sports Analytics using R
NFLSimulatoR
Simulating plays and drives in the NFL using nflscrapR or nflfastR data.
ballr
An R API for basketball-reference.com

Recent Publications

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Ryan Elmore (2022). Modeling Sums of Exchangeable Binary Variables. In Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods.

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Connor Gibbs, Ryan Elmore, Bailey Fosdick (2022). The causal effect of a timeout at stopping an opposing run in the NBA. In Annals of Applied Statistics.

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Ryan Elmore, Gregory J. Matthews (2022). Bang the Can Slowly An Investigation into the 2017 Houston Astros. In The American Statistician.

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Benjamin Williams, Will Palmquist, Ryan Elmore (2022). Simulation-Based Decision Making in the NFL using NFLSimulatoR. In Annals of Operations Research.

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Shahram Amini, Ryan Elmore, Özde Öztekin, Jack Strauss (2021). Can Machines Learn Capital Structure Dynamics. In Journal of Corporate Finance.

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Popular Topics

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Contact

You can usually find me in 584 Daniels College of Business, University of Denver.