As I mentioned in a post over a month ago, I was accepted to present a poster at this year's Northern California Symposium on Statistics and Operations Research in Sports. The list of oral and poster presentations has been finalized and you can view it at the NCSSORS website. The conference is dominated by presentations […]
The MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference has announced its call for papers for the 2011 conference. Next year the conference will be a two-day event (4-5 March), and the research paper contest will be on the second day. The conference is looking for submissions that will present completed research on areas of interest to the […]
I was informed that my paper submission was accepted to the Northern California Symposium on Statistics and Operations Research in Sports (NCSSORS), to be held in the San Francisco area on 16 October. The paper was actually accepted as a poster presentation, which doesn't carry quite the same prestige as an oral presentation but nevertheless […]
This is a busy week for everyone doing analytics work. People are rushing to complete their final analyses of the 32 finalists, make tournament predictions, and whatever software tools they need to carry out their tasks. Here is what I'm working on this week: Debugging the data entry forms that implement the Football Match Result […]
I came across the following conference thanks to Kevin Goodfellow of Sports Data Hub: the Northern California Symposium on Statistics and Operations Research in Sports, to be held at Menlo College in Atherton (between Palo Alto and Redwood City) on October 16. The conference page looks a little bare, but I'm sure it will fill […]
This has been true for some time now, but the papers from the technical paper contest at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference are now available. You can find them at their site.If you go to the front page of the conference site, you can also find videos of the panel discussions. I think the […]
And now for something that is not Soccer Pythagorean related…Billy Beane, the subject of the book that spawned the field of sports analytics, will appear at the Leaders in Performance conference in London in October. He will give one of the keynote speeches to the conference which will consist of close to 300 coaches, managers, […]
Continuing with the discussion on adjusted plus/minus, below is a presentation that Wayne Winston made at the New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports last September on player and lineup analysis in the NBA. Wayne Winston is a professor at Indiana University's business school and the developer of the original adjusted plus/minus system (the Dallas […]
I've already written a trio of review pieces on the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference earlier this month, but I have not written anything on my own impressions of the event and the areas in which the conference could improve. I just answered an evaluation form that the conference sent me a few days ago, and […]
[This is the third post in a multi-part review of the 2010 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.]For the first time in the brief history of the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, the organizers put together a session that allowed the presentation of research papers. The papers were split into two categories: those published by academic […]
