Last weekend, I attended the Carolina Sports Analytics Meeting at Furman University, and I had to pleasure of being one of the oral presenters at the conference. The meeting has a history that goes back more than a decade, but has been revived in the last two or three years after taking a hiatus. Most […]
I have attended the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (SSAC) since 2010. I’ve witnessed the growth of the conference from a one-day intersection of nerds, jocks, and suits that was just approaching critical mass to the slickly polished two-day sports conference behemoth that now gets visited by a former President of the United States of […]
The Fields Institute at the University of Toronto is organizing a two-day Fields Sports Analytics Workshop in about two months’ time — 24-25 May. The objective of the conference will be to disseminate current methods, practices, and research in sports analytics, and in particular the role of advanced techniques in mathematics, statistics, and computer science.The […]
On May 7 and 8 there will be a Conference on Predictive Inference and its Applications at Iowa State University. Predictive inference, as best as I understand it, is different from more traditional views of statistical inference in that while most inference seeks to predict model parameters, which are then used to predict the future, […]
The Major League Soccer panel at the 2018 SSAC was organized at very short notice, but the discussions over the fifty-minute session were engaging and helped to illuminate the tension between analytics research and practice at MLS’ member clubs.This year’s panel was made up of MLS performance and data analysts from the last two league […]
I was going to write a longish preview of the two soccer-related panels at this year’s MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, but after a big night at the pre-SSAC Soccer Analytics Mixer (and you REALLY should have been there) and a late rise, I’m going to make this short.I suppose I should be thankful to […]
Alongside the Research Paper competition at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference are the research poster displays. Research posters have always been a part of the SSAC (at least since I started attending in 2010), and even the research paper finalists had accompanying posters. In recent years more attention has been paid to the research […]
The MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference is more of a sports business conference these days, but the MIT association conveys a conference that also values rigorous and high-quality research. The Research Paper competition keeps the SSAC connected to this heritage as it evolves. This year the competition returns with tracks for publications on Baseball, Basketball, Other […]
I know that I have a reputation of being hard to please when it comes to the Soccer Analytics panel, so I’ll just come out and say what I thought of today’s event.It did not suck.Not only that, this was the best Soccer Analytics panel in the history of the SSAC.I know that for some, that […]
Hello from Boston, where I’ve been covering the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. It’s time for the Soccer Analytics panel and I’m cautiously optimistic about its prospects.Here’s how the session went down. These are paraphrased comments and they’re created during the moment, so 100% coverage and accuracy are not guaranteed. The panelists:Hendrik Almstadt Daniel Stenz […]
