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The 15th Annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

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Chief Business and Growth Officer of DraftKings
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CEO of FanDuel Group
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Founder of Seven Seven Six, Founding Investor of Angel City FC
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WNBA Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist, Co-Founder of A Touch More and Togethxr
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2X NBA Champion, Founder of the Take Charge Foundation, Executive
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General Manager of St. Bonaventure Men’s Basketball
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President of Basketball Operations, Philadelphia 76ers
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EVP of Baseball Operations, Oakland A's
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Statistician, Author, and Founder of Silver Bulletin
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Executive Vice President and General Manager, Houston Texans
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CEO, Kraft Analytics Group (KAGR)
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VP of Basketball Operations and Team Counsel, Boston Celtics
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Negotiating the Future: How Priorities Changed as a Result of COVID
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Building the Ultimate Global Rating System for Racquet Sports
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Quantify This: Valuing Sports Sponsorships Presented by Bose
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Acceleration of Sports Data Innovation at ESPN
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Fact or Fiction: Basketball Mythbusting
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Self-Made Sports Legends and Entrepreneurs: Michael Rubin and A-Rod
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Fan Engagement in the time of COVID
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Sabermetrics v. The World: Are Analytics Baseball's Answer?
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When the Sports World Stopped & How It Came Back to Life: COVID and The Future of Sports
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Evolving Sports Through Technology: How Data is Changing the Way We Innovate in Sports (Presented by AWS)
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Select Your Fighter: How to Assess Players and Build an Esports Roster
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The Case for Activism: Sports' Impact on Society
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Outwit, Outplay, Outlast: Survivor Analytics
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The First Four Shots
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Transforming Higher Education with DATA: Data, Analytics, Technology and Athletics
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Trash Talking: Live at SSAC presented by Oracle
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Don't Call Them Non-Revenue Sports: The case for an accounting revolution to protect cash-flow-positive "non-revenue" sports
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Democratizing Athletic Talent Identification via AR Technology – Leveraging the Power of Collaboration to Unlock Infinite Business Impact
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Say Goodbye to the 40 Yard Dash: The Future of NFL Roster Building
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Leading Through Change and Transition Presented by Wasserman
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To Play or Not To Play: Rich Eisen 1-on-1 with J.J. Watt
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Super Glue: Investigating Basketball Culture vs. Analytics
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Women’s Sports: The Time is NOW
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Adapting on the Fly: The Future of Ticketing
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The Data Dangle: Hockey Analytics
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Getting a Handle on Social Media: How Data is Engaging GenZ without Losing GenX
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Making a QB1: The Science behind QB Evaluations
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The New Sports Fan: Innovation and Data
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SailGP is tacking to better performance using the Oracle Cloud
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Beyond the Gambit: Chess’ Big Move
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Driving Inclusion of Women in Sports – Tools and Solutions to Enable Impact
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eNASCAR: The Virtual Fast Track to Fan Engagement
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The Invisible Opponent: Our Mental Health Crisis
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Creating Player Development Systems in eSports
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Analytical Masterminds: A Live Look from The Masters
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Backdoor Cover: Revolutionizing Sports During COVID
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The Path Forward: Analytics as an Organizational Imperative
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Vision - The Ultimate Competitive Advantage in Sports
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I Think We'll Go to Boston - Marathon Performance Prediction
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Sharpstack: Cholesky Correlations for Building Better Lineups
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Leaving Goals on the Pitch: Evaluating Decision Making in Soccer
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Risk of Collusion: Will Groups of 3 Ruin the FIFA World Cup?
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Decoding MLB Pitch Sequencing Strategies via Directed Graph Embeddings
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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
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Baseball Predictions and Strategies Using Explainable AI
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Predicting NBA Talent from Enormous Amounts of College Basketball Tracking Data
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Performance Index: A New Way To Compare Players
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A Poisson Betting Model with a Kelly Criterion Element for European Soccer
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Dissecting the Tennis Rally: Valuing Decision Making and Shot Execution in Tennis
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Making Offensive Play Predictable - Using a Graph Convolutional Network to Understand Defensive Performance in Soccer
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Using Mobile Location Data to Assess Sponsorship Effectiveness
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Routine Inspection: A playbook for corner kicks
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Prediction of Defensive Player Trajectories in NFL Games with Defender CNN-LSTM model
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MAYFIELD: Machine Learning Algorithm for Yearly Forecasting Indicators and Estimation of Long-Run Player Development
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Routine Inspection: A playbook for corner kicks
Risk of Collusion: Will Groups of 3 Ruin the FIFA World Cup?
MAYFIELD: Machine Learning Algorithm for Yearly Forecasting Indicators and Estimation of Long-Run Player Development