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Apr
2021

The 15th Annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

2021

2021

SLOAN SPORTS ANALYTICS CONFERENCE

Speakers

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Renie Anderson

Chief Revenue Officer and Executive Vice President, NFL Partnerships, NFL

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Leore Avidar

CEO and Founder, Alt

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Shane Battier

Former Vice President, Analytics and Basketball Development, Miami Heat; 2012 & 2013 NBA Champion, Miami Heat

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Billy Beane

EVP of Baseball Operations, Oakland A's

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Gregg Berhalter

Head Coach, USMNT

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Kristin Bernert

President of Business Operations, Columbus Crew

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Richard Bickers

Founder, SquashLevels

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Sue Bird

WNBA Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist, Co-Founder of A Touch More and Togethxr

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Elton Brand

General Manager, Philadelphia 76ers

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John Buccigross

Host - SportsCenter, ESPN

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Brian Burke

Sports Data Scientist, ESPN

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Paul Caine

President, Endeavor’s IMG Events and On Location

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Valerie Camillo

Board Member, Herschend Family Entertainment

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Catherine Carlson

CRO, Philadelphia Eagles

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Kathy Carter

CEO, LA28 | CEO, U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Properties

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Nick Caserio

Executive Vice President and General Manager, Houston Texans

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Events

Research Papers

A Poisson Betting Model with a Kelly Criterion Element for European Soccer

Kushal Shah
James Hyman
Dominic Samangy

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Baseball Predictions and Strategies Using Explainable AI

Joshua Silver, Singlearity
Tate Huffman, Harvard University

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Decoding MLB Pitch Sequencing Strategies via Directed Graph Embeddings

Arnav Prasad

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Dissecting the Tennis Rally: Valuing Decision Making and Shot Execution in Tennis

Robert Seidl
Machar Reid
Sam Robertson

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I Think We'll Go to Boston - Marathon Performance Prediction

Varun Pemmaraju, Strava
Dave Hoch, Strava

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Increasing the shot at a quality draft-decision – A Bayesian approach to improve predicting three-point accuracy translation in the NBA Draft

Tobias Berger
Frank Daumann

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Leaving Goals on the Pitch: Evaluating Decision Making in Soccer

Maaike Van Roy
Pieter Robberechts
Wen-Chi Yang
Luc De Raedt
Jesse Davis
KU Leuven

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MAYFIELD: Machine Learning Algorithm for Yearly Forecasting Indicators and Estimation of Long-Run Player Development

Alexander Williams, The Ohio State University
Sethward Brugler, General Motors
Benjamin Clarke, The Ohio State University

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Making Offensive Play Predictable - Using a Graph Convolutional Network to Understand Defensive Performance in Soccer

Michael Stöckl
Thomas Seidl
Daniel Marley
Paul Power 

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Performance Index: A New Way To Compare Players

Simon Demediuk, Anders Drachen, Athanasios Kokkinakis, Moni Sagarika Patra, Justus Robertson, Ben Kirman, Alistair Coates, Alan Chitayat, Jonathan Hook, Isabelle Nolle, Oluseyi Olarewaju, Daniel Slawson, Marian Ursu, Florian Oliver Block

University of York, Digital Creativity Labs

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Predicting NBA Talent from Enormous Amounts of College Basketball Tracking Data

Andrew Patton, Matt Scott, Nathan Walker, Alex Ottenwess, Paul Power, Aditya Cherukumudi, and Patrick Lucey (Stats Perform)

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Prediction of Defensive Player Trajectories in NFL Games with Defender CNN-LSTM model

Lin Lee Cheong & Xiangyu Zeng, Amazon Web Services
Ankit Tyagi, NFL Next Gen Stats

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Risk of Collusion: Will Groups of 3 Ruin the FIFA World Cup?

Julien Guyon

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Routine Inspection: A playbook for corner kicks

Laurie Shaw, Harvard University
Sudarshan Gopaladesikan, SL Benfica

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Sharpstack: Cholesky Correlations for Building Better Lineups

Andy Sherman-Ash
Keith Goldner

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Using Mobile Location Data to Assess Sponsorship Effectiveness

David Schweidel
Kyeongbin Kim
Michelle Andrews

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