arXiv:2608. 14776v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collegiate running in the United States generates thousands of race results annually in cross country and track and field, yet no large-scale dataset has been publicly available for research.
arXiv:2509. 10600v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Collegiate cross country teams often build their season schedules on intuition rather than evidence, partly because large-scale performance datasets were not publicly accessible prior to the National Running Club Database (NRCD).
The study introduces a framework that reconciles minute‑resolution athlete monitoring data with injury labels that are only available at the session level. By creating fixed‑time landmarks (10, 20, 30, 40, 50, and 60 minutes) and generating a single representation per athlete‑session up to each landmark, the authors evaluate several machine‑learning models and data‑augmentation strategies on elite women’s football data. Results show that discrimination varies across landmarks, with TabPFN outperforming Logistic Regression at later landmarks but not consistently beating Random Forest, and that synthetic augmentation offers benefits only in specific conditions.
The paper introduces a landmark-based approach for classifying injury-associated athlete sessions using minute-resolution multimodal football monitoring data. Instead of labeling every minute, it creates a single representation per athlete-session at fixed time points (landmarks) that incorporates information up to that moment, thereby aligning the session-level injury label with the data. Experiments on 3,743 elite women's football athlete-sessions from the 2020 SoccerMon dataset evaluate various representation strategies and machine learning models, reporting ROC-AUC values between 0.367 and 0.607 and PR-AUC values between 0.0080 and 0.0150, with notable uncertainty across landmarks.
The paper introduces a landmark‑based approach to classify injury‑associated athlete sessions using minute‑resolution multimodal football monitoring data. Instead of labeling every minute, it creates a single representation per athlete‑session at fixed time points (landmarks) based on information up to that moment, thereby aligning the session‑level injury label with the data. Experiments on 3,743 elite women’s football sessions show that cumulative and dynamic logistic regression models achieve ROC‑AUCs between 0.367 and 0.607, though results carry wide uncertainty.
arXiv:2606. 28145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wearable devices produce large, high dimensional training logs for everyday runners, and interpretation rather than data collection is now the limiting step.
arXiv:2607. 16597v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid digitalisation of elite sport has created new opportunities for integrating artificial intelligence (AI), performance analytics, and decision-support systems into athlete development and competition management.
The paper introduces PART, a multimodal predictive framework for tennis that combines physiological, training, sleep, questionnaire, jump, and video data from nine collegiate players to assess overall wellness, injury risk, physical capability, and playing style. Using machine learning and deep learning, PART provides holistic athlete assessments and forecasts specific injury risks to body areas such as elbows and knees. Evaluation shows strong performance in predicting wellness and injury risk, with potential benefits for recreational players who often injure themselves due to poor technique.
The paper audits the Duckworth‑Lewis‑Stern (DLS) method, the standard for revising cricket scores after rain, using 8,150 international matches to generate 233,550 synthetic interruption scenarios. It finds two structured biases: a 137‑run prediction error range across match‑state buckets and a gender‑differential bias in ODIs, with women’s scores over‑predicted by an average of +7.63 runs versus +1.51 runs for men. The authors benchmark DLS against five modern machine‑learning models and introduce DLS‑Cal, a lightweight calibration layer that reduces overall bias by 31% in ODIs and 19% in T20Is, and a gender‑aware variant that nearly eliminates the residual bias for women’s ODIs.
The paper evaluates six onboarding strategies for federated wearable models on five datasets using a leakage‑controlled protocol that fixes source checkpoints and separates calibration from evaluation. Results show that while average accuracy is high, person‑level performance can drop significantly, with some methods causing negative transfer for certain users. The study highlights that mean accuracy alone is insufficient and provides an auditable benchmark and failure map for future development.
The paper presents a training‑free method for detecting which holds a climber uses in sport climbing videos by leveraging a frozen foundation pose model (Sapiens) that provides fingertip and toe keypoints. Using a simple proximity test, mutual exclusion, and a temporal‑persistence rule, the approach achieves high F_1 scores (up to 90.2%) on the Way Up dataset without any climbing‑specific training, outperforming repurposed pose pipelines. The resulting automatic predictions enable accurate coaching statistics, such as climb time and pace, with Pearson correlations of 1.00 and 0.94 respectively.
arXiv:2608. 19480v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human pose estimation has advanced significantly due to the development of deep learning models, increased data availability, and improved computing resources.
arXiv:2606. 28570v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Athlete assessment is a critical process for tracking physical progress and identifying elite talent.