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 […]

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 […]

I have been attending the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference since 2010, right at the time that the Conference was transitioning from an intimate meeting of professional sports insiders and academics to a slick and polished cultural event.  As happens every year at this time, I receive notifications from the organizers of the conference that encourage […]

I was trawling for conferences for statistical analysis in sport, and I came across this conference at MIT's Sloan School of Business in March.  From the looks of it, they don't have any presentations on sport analytics from anyone in the soccer world.  They should. UPDATE: This call for papers at the Conference might be […]