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The 17th Annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

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Brett Peterson
Assistant General Manager, Florida Panthers
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Connor Pardoe
CEO, Professional Pickleball Association
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Jen Millet
Chief Marketing Officer, Golden State Warriors
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Brian Westbrook
Managing Director of Athlete Entrepreneur Network, underdog venture team
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Parth Naidu
CEO, SIDO
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Jason Sinnarajah
Senior Vice President of Business Administration, Buffalo Bills
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Johanna Faries
Senior Vice President/General Manager of Call of Duty, Activision Blizzard
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Michael Albert
Assistant professor of Quantitative Analysis, University of Virginia Darden School of Business
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Benjamin Hendricks
Staff Software Engineer, LinkedIn
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Calder Hynes
Senior Vice President, Global Communications, Wasserman
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Alex Fast
Vice President, Pitcher List
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Jacqueline Davidson
Senior Director of Football Research, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
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Heather Pease
Vice President Ticketing and Data Strategy, Angel City Football Club
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Michael D'Auria
Chief Commercial Officer, Second Spectrum
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Eric Eager
VP of Research and Development, SumerSports
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Colin Warner
Director of Business Intelligence, Sacramento Kings
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How Angel City FC is using data and analytics to gain massive popularity and drive revenue in LA
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Entrepreneurship for Impact: Athletes Making a Mark
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Transforming the LA28 Olympic & Paralympic Games with Data
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The Chess Renaissance: Modern Challenges for an Ancient Game
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Data-Driven Approaches to Responsible Gaming
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Revamping America's Pastime: The Effect of Rule Changes in Baseball
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Winning Speedskating Medals Through Pareto Gains
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Advantage US Tennis: Leveraging Performance Analytics and Technology to Provide a Competitive Edge
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Analytics On Air - The NBA's First Full-Time Analytics Broadcaster
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The Last of Sports
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The New Age of Golf: Players vs the Game
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The Next Revolution of AI in Sport - Large Language Models
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Data Centered Decision Making: How to Implement a Process that maximizes the Value of Your Data
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Big Events, Big Tickets, Big Experiences: Managing the Fan Experience When Stakes are Highest
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The Future of the Fan: Innovation, Data, and "Always On" Engagement presented by Ticketmaster
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Virtual Becomes Reality: The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift
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Hard Cap Constrains: Roster Construction in the Hard Cap Era of Hockey
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Lessons From The Edge: Understanding Humans In The Pursuit of Peak Performance
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Negotiating for Seconds: Engineering the Sub 2-hr Marathon
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Esports Analytics for League of Legends
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Introduction to Modern Football Analytics Using Play-by-Play Data
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Like and Subscribe: Co-Streaming and The Influencer Age of Esports
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Beyond the Beam: Inside the Sacramento Kings Fan Engagement Strategy
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Start Me Up: How New Leagues Are Innovating Sports and Capturing Fans
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The Data Evolution: Building efficient golf swings
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Welcome to the Lakehouse: Best-of-Breed Data Stack in Sports
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Ensembling & Wisdom of Crowds
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FemTech or "Bro"Tech: Are Data from Wearables Missing the Mark for Female Athletes?
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Bet On It: A Conversation on Innovation in the Sports Betting Industry
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Beating the Book: Simulation-Driven Sports Betting
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The Future of Sports & Entrepreneurship: A Conversation with Jason Robins and Wyc Grousbeck
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The Elam Ending Reaches the NBA G League
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The Impact of Moneyball: 20 Years Later
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Raising The Stakes: The Evolution of Poker Strategy
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Creating an NFL Player Tracking Metric presented by ESPN
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Preparing for Launch: How the Miami Dolphins applied data analytics to strategize and amplify "The Moment"
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FIFA World Cup 2022: A Data Journey Into the Future
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Social Media and Sports: How Consumption and Fanhood is Changing
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How bobsleighing, the Roman army, and throw-in coaching innovated the world of soccer
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An Analytical Framework For Winning The Super Bowl
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Mar 4, 2023
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The Ultimate Team Sport: Building Better Football Rosters with Analytics
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Start Your Engines: How Data is Fueling NASCAR's Strategy to Engage an Evolving Customer Base
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Applying Pressure: Exploring Pitching's Next Data Driven Opportunity
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Pickleball: The Next Chapter for the World's Fastest Growing Sport
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Soccer's Analytics Frontier
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Partnerships 2.0: Data, Dollars, and Digitalization
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Brittney Griner: Leveraging Data for Collective Action
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The Play-by-Play of the Future: Navigating the Evolving Landscape of Sports Media
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Using Crowd Sentiment To Help Pick Winners in Fantasy Football
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Sports and Technology: Bringing Performance to the Next Level
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Leveling Up: How Basketball Teams Deploy Analytics to Develop Players
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Golden State Warriors Global Fan Engagement & Growth Strategy
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Data For Good: What Sports Can Learn From Other Industries
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Sharpening Your Edges: The Role of Analytics in Sports Betting and Fantasy Sports
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Win with AI: Exposing Winning Strategies in Sports
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Mind, Body, Machine: The Role of AI/ML in the Future of Sports
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Changing the Game: How the Sports Industry is Accelerating Progress in DEI
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The Future of Soccer Data in North America
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Mar 3, 2022
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2023 Startup Competition & Trade Show
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Sports & Society: Redefining Sports Culture and Organizations presented by Wasserman Foundation
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Player Power - Building Businesses by Empowering Athletes presented by Wasserman Foundation
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Performance Under Pressure
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Investing in Global Sports: Creating Value While Building Dynasties
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Mar 4, 2023
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2023 Hackathon Presented by Ticketmaster
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Fair and Efficient Ranking in Incomplete Tournaments
Fernando Leiva Bertran
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A Game Theoretical Approach to Optimal Pitch Sequencing
William Melville
Jesse Melville
Theo Dawson
Delma Nieves-Rivera
Christopher Archibald
David Grimsman
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Mining football players' behavioral profile: identifying candidate proxy features from event data.
Luis Meireles
Tiago Mendes-Neves
João Mendes-Moreira
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Thinking the GOAT: Imitating Tennis Styles
Padmanaba Srinivasan
Raghavan Subramanian
William Knottenbelt
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Padmanaba Srinivasan
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Learning Contextual Event Embeddings to Predict Player Performance in the MLB
Connor Heaton
Prasenjit Mitra
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Estimating Positional Plus-Minus in the NBA
Hua Gong
Su Chen
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A Graph Neural Network deep-dive into successful counterattacks
Amod Sahasrabudhe
Joris Bekkers
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Amod Sahasrabudhe
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Competitive Balance in Professional Sports: A Multidimensional Perspective
Levi Bognar
Scott A. Brave
R. Andrew Butters
Kevin A. Roberts
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Explainable Defense Coverage Classification in NFL Games using Deep Neural Networks
Huan Song
Mohamad Al Jazaery
Haibo Ding
Lin Lee Cheong
Kyeong Hoon (Jonathan) Jung
Mike Band
Michael Chi
Thompson Bliss
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Correcting for preferential bias in NFL fourth-down decision making
Daniel Daly-Grafstein
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Player Tracking Facilitates Valid Causal Inference: The Average Treatment Effect of Defender Proximity on Scoring
Matthew S. Tenan
Ali R. Rezai
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Matthew S. Tenan
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Robust Daily Fantasy Sports: Maximizing Reward via the Robust Optimization Paradigm
Dubem Mbeledogu
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cricWAR: A reproducible system for evaluating player performance in limited-overs cricket
Hassan Rafique
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Reconstruction of Trajectories of Athletes Using Computer Vision Models and Kinetic Analysis
Qi Gan
Sao Mai Nguyen
Stephan Clémençon
Eric Fenaux
Mounim A. El-Yacoubi
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Robust Daily Fantasy Sports: Maximizing Reward via the Robust Optimization Paradigm
Explainable Defense Coverage Classification in NFL Games using Deep Neural Networks
A Game Theoretical Approach to Optimal Pitch Sequencing