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2007 Panels To see details on one of the panels from the inaugural 2007 MIT Sloan Sports Conference, please click the link below. Sponsorship Fan Management Personnel Decisions Media Rights League Management Minor Leagues Sports Technology Basketball Analytics Career
Panel: personnel decisions How do teams convert dollars into wins? What latest tools and models are general managers using to make personnel decisions? How does quantitative analysis factor into drafting players and making trades? Do different leagues value the draft differently? Which statistics are coaches using to make in-game decisions and how are they using them?
 Bill
James is a senior Baseball Operations Advisor for the
Boston Red Sox and famed author of Bill James Baseball Abstracts. He is
a baseball writer, historian and statistician whose work has been
widely
influential. Since 1977, James has written more than two dozen books
devoted to baseball history and statistics. His approach, which he
termed sabermetrics in reference to the Society for American Baseball
Research (SABR), scientifically evaluates statistical data in
attempting to determine why teams win and lose. In 2006, Time magazine
named him in the Time 100 as one of the most influential people in the
world. Paraag Marathe is the Director of Football Operations for the San Francisco 49ers. Marathe enters his sixth season with the 49ers and second as Director of Football Operations. Previously, he spent one season as Assistant to the General Manager and three seasons as Special Projects Manager in the 49ers personnel and football operations departments. In his current role, Marathe is the club’s chief contract negotiator and coordinates its compliance with the NFL’s collective bargaining agreement. He is also responsible for the management of the club’s salary cap as well as multi-year forecasting at both the individual club and league level. Marathe serves as the liaison with the team’s business office and CFO with regards to player compensation. Sam Presti is the Assistant General Manager for the San Antonio Spurs. Presti first joined the Spurs as an intern in the summer of 2000, and the 29-year-old has quickly moved up the ladder. After one season, he was named the team’s basketball special assistant Then in September of 2002, he was promoted to assistant director of scouting. Presti was named the Spurs director of player personnel in September of 2003 and became the Spurs assistant general manager in September of 2005. He led the design and implementation of the Spurs scouting database, a system that is now being used by numerous teams throughout the NBA. Peter Chiarelli is the General Manager of the Boston Bruins. Chiarelli enters his first season as the team's General Manager, becoming just the seventh person in club history to hold that position when he was named to the post on May 26, 2006. He is in charge of every aspect of the team's hockey operations. He officially began his position in Boston on July 8, 2006. Chiarelli came to the Bruins following seven seasons with the Ottawa Senators, five as their Director of Legal Relations and two as Assistant General Manager. He was involved in all aspects of that team's hockey operations, including contract research and negotiations, salary arbitration and all player personnel matters. He was also involved in overseeing Ottawa's top developmental affiliate, the Binghamton Senators of the American Hockey League. The Senators had four 100+ point seasons during his tenure and never finished below 94 points and they finished with the League's top record in 2002-03 and the best record in the Eastern Conference in 2005-06 with 113 points in each of those seasons.
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