MIT Sloan Sports Business Conference: Panels

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To see details on one of the panels from the inaugural 2007 MIT Sloan Sports Conference, please click the link below.

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Fan Management
Personnel Decisions
Media Rights
League Management
Minor Leagues
Sports Technology
Basketball Analytics
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Panel: Basketball Analytics

DESCRIPTION

An in-depth discussion, specific to the game of basketball, of the tools and models used to analyze player and lineup performance.

PANELISTS

Dean Oliver has been a leader of the APBRmetrics movement. Oliver's work began in the 1980s and was initially published on his website, The Journal of Basketball Statistics, in the 1990s, then published with his first book, Basketball on Paper, in 2003. Oliver worked with the Seattle SuperSonics for two seasons before obtaining a front office position with the Denver Nuggets in 2006. His work has focused largely on the consideration of situational elements when evaluating players and teams.

Dan Rosenbaum is an assistant professor (with tenure) in economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a Ph.D in economics from Northwestern University. Known for his work on plus/minus ratings and the luxury tax, Rosenbaum consults for the Cleveland Cavaliers and in the past advised the NBA Players Association. Rosenbaum had the good fortune of playing for two national champions (in baseball for La Porte High School in 1987 and in Division III football at the University of Dayton in 1989). But his real claim to fame is being shown in ESPN highlights being beaten for a clinching touchdown in the 1991 national championship game.

Mike Zarren is a lifelong Boston Celtics season ticket holder who attended his first game when he was five years old and is now the Celtics' Basketball Operations Analyst, a role in which he is responsible for directing all quantitative and legal analyses for the Celtics' basketball staff. In addition to being the team's statistical expert, Mike is heavily involved in the development of new technologies for team use, focusing especially on the effective integration of video and statistical information into coaching and player evaluation processes. Mike was previously a management consultant, during which time he performed econometric and other quantitative analyses for Fortune 500 firms across a wide variety of industries. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, and of the University of Chicago, where he worked with "Freakonomics" author Steven Levitt. Mike is also a published board game author and a member of the bars of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the states of New York and Massachusetts.

MODERATOR

John Hollinger is an ESPN.com Insider columnist on the NBA. He authored four annual “Pro Basketball Forecast” books and, this year, an online version for ESPN.com. His work includes inventing Player Efficiency Rating (PER), a tool for rating a player’s per-minute statistical effectiveness, as well as creating several other metrics for measuring player and team effectiveness in individual categories. John also writes on the NBA for the New York Sun.