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Investing With the Bulls: Wall Street Analytics In Sports
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Tackling Name, Image, and Likeliness in College Sports
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Open for Business: How An Open Distribution Ticketing Network is Changing the Way the NFL Operates presented by KAGR
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Finding the Favorite: Engaging Fans and Bettors
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Getting Real with Real-Time Data presented by AXS
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Ticketing Analytics: Secondary To None
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Save the Data: The Future of Data & Technology
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Built To Last: The Importance of Inclusion & Diversity in Sports Organizations Presented By Wasserman
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Formula 1 x Sustainability: Launching the Sport’s First-Ever Sustainability Strategy
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It’s All Hoops: The Intersection of NBA Analytics, Fantasy and Gambling presented by ESPN
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Playing Catchup: Estimating Player & Positional Value in (American) Football presented by ESPN
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Instant Feedback: Using Real-time Data to Improve Training, Case Studies from MIT Sports Lab
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Intangibles: Unlocking the Science and Soul of Team Chemistry
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Numbers Don’t Lie: Using Data in the Weight Room to Enhance On-Field Performance
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Finding Expected + Unexpected Goals in the NHL
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The Biggest Comebacks and Collapses in Golf
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Data Driven: How the Giants Are Using Analytics to Satisfy Parking Demands
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The Sports Learning Curve: Why Teams are Slow to Learn and Adapt
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The Football Development Model: Youth Football Reimagined
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Moving The Chains: Advancing Football Analytics
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The Relevant and the Frequent: Engaging Soccer Coaches with Visual Analytics. An FC Barcelona Story
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Introducing a New Model of Pro Team Sports: Athletes Unlimited
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Who Will Win? Predicting, Visualizing, and Understanding Performance in Professional Golf
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At the Intersection of AI and Human Potential
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An Optimization Approach to Roster Creation and Game Scheduling
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Hockey Analytics: A Faceoff With Data
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Sports Storytelling: Lessons Learned from Sue Bird and the “Bullet Man”
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Making the Right Play: Optimizing the NBA's Season Structure
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No Industry is Safe: The Opioid Epidemic in Sports and Society
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USA Swimming: The Analytics Driving Olympic Performance
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Rushing to Analytics: Hockey’s Ability to Predict and Project Talent
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College Football Analytics: Analyzing Tracking Data and Film Concurrently to Get an Upper Hand
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Moneyball To Homerball With Bill James and Tom Tango
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Basketball Analytics: Nothin' But Net... Rating
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A New Arena: Careers After Sports
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Soccer Analytics: The Beautiful Game Meets the Analytics Edge
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Football & CTE: How New Data Can Save the NFL
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Player Empowerment: I've Got The Power
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Leveraging Data in Sponsorships
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Sports in 2040: Hindsight is 2020
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Reinventing a Business: The Future of Sports Business
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Dark Arts: What the Sports World Can Learn From Chess - Panel Discussion and Chess Simul With GM Robert Hess
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"3s & Frees": The Evolving Nature of Basketball
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Pass The Secret Sauce: Learning Across Sports
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The Path to Greatness
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Bettor Up: Assess, Analyze, and Achieve
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PFF WAR: Modeling Player Value in American Football
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Running it Twice (or Thrice): Double-Header and Triple-Header Baseball Arbitration
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Swing Shift: A Mathematical Approach to Defensive Positioning in Baseball
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Accuracy and National Bias of Figure Skating Judges: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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Changing the Major League Baseball: A Whole New Ballgame
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Player Chemistry: Striving for a Perfectly Balanced Soccer Team
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Seeing in to the future: using self-propelled particle models to aid player decision-making in soccer
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NBA Lineup Analysis on Clustered Player Tendencies: A new approach to the positions of basketball & modeling lineup efficiency
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Player Benchmarking and Outcomes: A Behavioral Science Approach
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Pulling Starters
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The right place at the right time: Advanced off-ball metrics for exploiting an opponent’s spatial weakenesses in soccer
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Characterization of Space and Time-Dependence of 3-Point Shots in Basketball
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You Cannot Do That Ben Stokes: Dynamically Predicting Shot Type in Cricket Using a Personalized Deep Neural Network
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A No-Tanking Draft Allocation Policy
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Measuring the Impact of Robotic Umpires
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Learning Feature Representations from Football Tracking
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Extracting Player Tracking Data from Video Using Non-Stationary Cameras and a Combination of Computer Vision Techniques
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Projecting NFL Potential from College Career Performance Curve
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Scoring a Touchdown with Variable Pricing Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in the NFL Ticket Markets
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High School Poster: HOW THE “COLOMBIAN CANNONBALL” FINALLY BROKE THROUGH – ANALYZING THE 2018 BRITISH OPEN SQUASH CHAMPIONSHIP
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A No-Tanking Draft Allocation Policy
Extracting Player Tracking Data from Video Using Non-Stationary Cameras and a Combination of Computer Vision Techniques
Learning Feature Representations from Football Tracking