The Soccer Analytics panel at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference has been hit-or-miss since it was included in 2011, but the organizers have made an effort to improve the quality of the panel with better selection of the facilitator and panelists. In my opinion they’ve continued to make positive progress with this year’s panel.Returning […]
A couple of nights ago I gave a preview of the SSAC Research Paper competition. I’ve meant to give a preview of the Research Poster competition in previous years but didn’t follow through. I’m following through this year.The Research Posters presented at SSAC are works that advanced to the second round of the Research Paper […]
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’ve been attending the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference since 2010, which is right around the time that the conference reached critical mass and outgrew its MIT home. It was already a large event by that time (about 1000 attendees for a day) but is simply massive now (over 3000 attendees over two days, with pre-conference […]
The 2017 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference begins exactly a month from today. And once again the soccer analytics community will be stepping away from their computers to have a drink and attach human faces to virtual identities. The meetup location is in the same spot as in previous years: Thursday 2 March 7pm – 10pm […]
This weekend I had the opportunity to attend and present at the Joint Mathematics Meetings that were going on in Atlanta, where I live. I enjoyed presenting my work on Bayesian models of MLS draft value, as well as interacting with academics and their students on the intersections of mathematics and sports. I am fascinated […]
This afternoon I participated in the third Mathematics and Sports session at the 2017 Joint Mathematics Meeting. My talk was titled “A Bayesian analysis of draft pick value in Major League Soccer”, which is a follow-on to what I presented at CASSIS in September but within a Bayesian framework. I’m way too critical of my […]
The 2017 Conference of the International Federation of Operations Research Societies (IFORS) announced its Call for Papers for the OR in Sports session. The conference will bring together leading researchers in operations research from all over the world, and is scheduled for 17-21 July in Québec City, Canada.The OR in Sports session will exhibit paper […]
I’ve agreed to give a lightning talk at the December PyData Atlanta meetup next week. I will be talking about the use of the lifelines Python library to perform survival analysis, and I will be using my study of the MLS draft as an example. I have a hard five-minute limit, so don’t expect to […]
The OptaPro Analytics Forum has returned for 2017 with a Call For Proposals. You can find the details of the call at the OptaPro blog.This Forum is one of my favorite events on the sports analytics calendar. It provides an opportunity to apply Opta’s detailed match data sets to address analytical questions of interest to football […]
