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The 13th Annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

2019

2019

SLOAN SPORTS ANALYTICS CONFERENCE

The 13th annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference took place March 1-2 at the Hynes Convention Center!  We were proud to continue the great tradition of bringing together the leading figures in sports analytics, business, and technology.

At our roots, we are about education and our goal is to provide more opportunities for sharing industry successes, to create forums to discuss the most challenging topics of the day, and to continue identifying new ideas.  As a conference we are firmly committed to innovation. Each year, we have added new elements to push the larger analytics conversation forward.  Recent years have seen advances from the Research Paper competition started in 2010 to the popular and successful Hack-A-Thon, the introduction of an esports room, doubling the number of Competitive Advantage talks, expansion of the Startup Tradeshow competition, and introduction of industry-specific workshops.  Despite our past successes, we firmly believe that the best is yet to come.

Speakers

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Omar Ajmeri

Research Analyst, Twitter

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Ben Alamar

Sports Analytics Author & Consultant

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Portia Archer

VP of DTC Services, NBC Sports

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Kevin Arnovitz

NBA Writer, ESPN.com

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Charlie Baker

Governor, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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Saquon Barkley

Running Back, New York Giants

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Mark Bashuk

Director of Business Analytics, Oakland Athletics

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Howard Beck

Senior Writer, Bleacher Report

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Jason Benetti

College Play-by-Play Announcer, ESPN

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Roger Bennett

Host - Men in Blazers, Men in Blazers

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Kristin Bernert

President of Business Operations, Columbus Crew

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Brian Bilello

President, New England Revolution

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Sue Bird

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

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Christopher Boucher

VP Sports Development, Analytics, & Hockey Operations, Sportlogiq

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Events

Research Papers

A Data Driven Goalkeeper Evaluation Framework

Derrick Yam

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Analytics for the Front Office: Valuing Protections on NBA Draft Picks

Benjamin T. Foster
Michael D. Binns

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Choke or Shine? Quantifying Soccer Players' Abilities to Perform Under Mental Pressure

Lotte Bransen
Pieter Robberechts
Jan Van Haaren
Jesse Davis

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Chuckers: Measuring Lineup Shot Distribution Optimality Using Spatial Allocative Efficiency Models

Nathan Sandholtz
Jacob Mortensen
Luke Bornn

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Data-driven lowlight and highlight reel creation based on explainable temporal game models

Evin Keane
Phillippe Desaulniers
Luke Bornn
Mehrsan Javan

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Decomposing the Immeasurable Sport: A deep learning expected possession value framework for soccer

Javier Fernandez
Luke Bornn
Dan Cervone

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DeepQB: Deep Learning with Player Tracking to Quantify Quarterback Decision-Making & Performance

Brian Burke

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From Markov models to Poisson point processes: Modeling movement in the NBA

Jacob Mortensen
Luke Bornn

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How Much Do Coaches Matter

Christopher Berry
Anthony Fowler

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Leveraging Batter-Pitcher Matchups for Optimal Game Strategy

Willie Harrison
John Salmon

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New Evidence in the Study of Shirking in Major League Baseball

Richars Paulsen

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Playing Fast Not Loose: Evaluating team-level pace of play in ice hockey using spatio-temporal possession data

David Yu
Christopher Boucher
Luke Bornn
Mehrsan Javan

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Predicting Major League Baseball Strikeout Rates from Differences in Velocity and Movement Among Player Pitch Types

Eric P. Martin

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The Economic Impact of NBA Superstars: Evidence from Missed Games using Ticket Microdata from a Secondary Marketplace

Scott Kaplan
Vaibhav Ramamoorthly
Cheernar Gupte
Amit Sagar
Deepak Premkumar
Joshua Wilbur
David Zilberman

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The Economic Impact of NBA Superstars: Evidence from Missed Games using Ticket Microdata from a Secondary Marketplace

Scott Kaplan
Vaibhav Ramamoorthy
Cheenar Gupte
Amit Sagar
Deepak Premkumar
Joshua Wilbur
David Zilberman

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The Evolution of Curling Analytics

Kevin Palmer
Gerry Geurts

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The Horizon of Sports is Digital: Using Fantasy Sports, e-Sports and Electronic Gambling to Find Next Generation of Ticket Buyers

Matt Sabban
Peter Ibarra
Peter Lenz

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Training Schedule Confounds the Relationship between Acute:Chronic Workload Ratio and Injury

Luke Bornn
Patrick Ward
Darcy Norman

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Using Deep Learning to Understand Patterns of Player Movement in the NBA

Akhil Nistala
John Guttag

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Winning Isn’t Everything – A contextual analysis of hockey face-offs

Nick Czuzoj-Shulman
David Yu
Christopher Boucher
Luke Bornn
Mehrsan Javan

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