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Jess Hargreaves

Lecturer in Data Science

“Ben Powell is a legend”- Jess Hargreaves
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Background

Ph.D. Statistics | University of York
MSci Mathematics | Imperial College London


Research Interests

My research interest is the development and application of statistical methods and tools in sport. This research has: examined the home advantage; investigated factors determining attendance at sporting events and developed methods for analysing career trajectories of professional athletes. I am currently working with a number of professional sports organisations with the goal of making quantitative analysis more accessible.

Jess’ blogs

RSS Prediction Competition 2026

Can you predict how many medals teams will win?

Jun 2026

The SPLit

The Scottish Premier League splits into two for a playoff structure. Does this have unintended consequences?

Mar 2025
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Jess’ Group Publications

Modelling bookings in association football

Modelling bookings in association football
Jess Hargreaves, Ben Powell
Proceedings of MathSport International 2022 Conference, 34-44 (2022)

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Adaptive wavelet domain principal component analysis for nonstationary time series

Adaptive wavelet domain principal component analysis for nonstationary time series
Marina Knight, Matthew Nunes, Jess Hargreaves
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 3, 941-954 (2024)

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The Split: Analysing contest design in the Scottish Premier League

The Split: Analysing contest design in the Scottish Premier League
Jess Hargreaves, Johan Rewilak
Proceedings of MathSport International 2025 Conference, 81-86 (2025)

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