Section: Overview
Overview
Key publications
Research funding
Supervising & teaching
Career

Key details

Areas of expertise

  • Sport analytics
  • Applied statistics

Available to supervise research students

Not available for media queries

About Bartholomew Spencer

Bart is a Research Fellow in the Institute for Health and Sport (IHeS) at Victoria University.

Bart's postgraduate studies focused on spatio-temporal analysis in Australian Rules football. He has an interest in analysing player tracking data across multiple sports, having completed research on player performance in the AFL, NBA (basketball) and MLS (soccer).

Bart currently holds a join appointment with the San Antonio Spurs.

Qualifications

  • PhD, Victoria University, Australia 2019
  • MSc (Statistics), RMIT University, Australia 2014

Key publications

Year Citation
2020 Aughey, R., Robertson, S., Duthie, G., Ball, K., Spencer, B., Haycraft, J., & Serpiello, F. (201031). EPTS Performance Test Report: InStat.
2020 Aughey, R., Robertson, S., Duthie, G., Ball, K., Spencer, B., Haycraft, J., & Serpiello, F. (201031). EPTS Performance Test Report: Fitogether GPS.
2020 Aughey, R., Robertson, S., Duthie, G., Ball, K., Spencer, B., Haycraft, J., & Serpiello, F. (200117). EPTS Performance Test Report: Track 160.
2020 Aughey, R., Robertson, S., Duthie, G., Ball, K., Spencer, B., Haycraft, J., & Serpiello, F. (200117). EPTS Performance Test Report: Second Spectrum.
2020 Aughey, R., Robertson, S., Duthie, G., Ball, K., Spencer, B., Haycraft, J., & Serpiello, F. (200117). EPTS Performance Test Report: Hawk-Eye.
2020 Aughey, R., Robertson, S., Duthie, G., Ball, K., Spencer, B., Haycraft, J., & Serpiello, F. (200116). EPTS Performance Test Report: Track160 MyCoach160.

Year Citation
2024 Gregory, S., Robertson, S., Aughey, R., Spencer, B., & Alexander, J. (240901). Assigning goal-probability value to high intensity runs in football. PLoS ONE, 19(9 September),

doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0308749

2023 Robertson, S., Duthie, G. M., Ball, K., Spencer, B., Serpiello, F. R., Haycraft, J., Evans, N., Billingham, J., & Aughey, R. J. (230101). Challenges and considerations in determining the quality of electronic performance & tracking systems for team sports. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 5

doi: 10.3389/fspor.2023.1266522

2022 Aughey, R. J., Ball, K., Robertson, S. J., Duthie, G. M., Serpiello, F. R., Evans, N., Spencer, B., Ellens, S., Cust, E., & Haycraft, J. (221201). Comparison of a computer vision system against three-dimensional motion capture for tracking football movements in a stadium environment. Sports Engineering, 25(1),

doi: 10.1007/s12283-021-00365-y

2021 Teune, B., Spencer, B., Sweeting, A. J., Woods, C., Inness, M., & Robertson, S. (210101). Application of a continuous pressure metric for Australian football. Journal of Sports Sciences, 39(13), (1548-1554).

doi: 10.1080/02640414.2021.1886416

Research funding for the past 5 years

Please note:

  • Funding is ordered by the year the project commenced and may continue over several years.
  • Funding amounts for contact research are not disclosed to maintain commercial confidentiality.
  • The order of investigators is not indicative of the role they played in the research project.

AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE (AFL) 2023 - AFL Game Analysis -Development of a Congestion Metric (Dr Bart Spencer)
From: Australian Football League
Other investigators: Prof Samuel Robertson
For period: 2023-2024
Not disclosed

VU – San Antonio Spurs Knowledge Exchange
From: Spurs Sports & Entertainment, LLC
Other investigators: Prof Samuel Robertson
For period: 2022-2024
Not disclosed

Supervision of research students at VU

Available to supervise research students

Not available for media queries

Currently supervised research students at VU

No. of students Study level Role
1 PhD Integrated Associate supervisor

Currently supervised research students at VU

Students & level Role
PhD Integrated (1) Associate supervisor

Teaching activities & experience

Bart is involved in the development and ongoing teaching of SFS7012 - Sports Analytics, as part of the Master of Sport Science (Football).

Careers

Details of this Researcher's career are currently unavailable.