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The 18th Annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

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Mar 2, 2024
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center
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SLOAN SPORTS ANALYTICS CONFERENCE

Speakers

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Brett Abarbanel

Associate Professor & Executive Director, UNLV International Gaming Institute

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Val Ackerman

Commissioner, BIG EAST Conference

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Ben Alamar

Sports Analytics Author & Consultant

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Dave Alpern

President, Joe Gibbs Racing

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Ali Anderson

Director of Business Strategy, Orlando Magic

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Amanda Anderson

Senior Director Social Media, ESPN

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Dawn Aponte

Chief Football Administrative Officer, NFL

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Adela Armstrong-Spielberg

Scrum Master, Sports Reference LLC

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Brant Berglund

Senior Director of Coaching & GM Applications, NHL

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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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Meghan Bird Burgoon

Senior Director, ESPN BET Content Integration

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Will Blodgett

Founder and CEO, Tredway

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Contessa Brewer

Correspondent, CNBC

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Justine Brown

VP of Creative Development and Talent Relations, TOGETHXR

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Brian Burke

Sports Data Scientist, ESPN

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Research Papers

A model-based risk-impact analysis of dribble actions in women's soccer

Tobias Beckman, Gerhard Waldhart, Stefan Thiem, Oliver Wohak

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Analyzing NBA Player Positions and Interactions with Density-Functional Fluctuation Theory

Boris Barron, Nathan S. Sitaraman, Tomas A. Arias 

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Approaching In-Venue Quality Tracking from Broadcast Video using Generative AI

Harry Hughes, Michael Horton, Felix Wei, Michael Stokl, Harshala Gammulle, Clinton Fookes, Sridha Sridharan, Sateesh Pedagadi, Patrick Lucey

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Estimating NBA Team Shot Selection Efficiency from Aggregations of True, Continuous Shot Charts: A Generalized Additive Model Approach

Justin Ehrlich, Shane Sanders

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Feeling the Pressure: A Unified Framework for Automating Pass Rushing Statistics in NFL Games

Sungmin Hong, Laura Kulowski, Dan Volk, Henry Wang, Keegan Abdoo, Conor McQuiston, Kyeong Hoon (Jonathan) Jung, Mike Band, Diego Socolinsky

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How Much Do Faceoffs Matter? Translating Faceoffs to Goals, Wins, and Championships in Hockey

Tad Berkery, Chase Seibold, Max Stevens, Justin Nam, Anton Dahbura 

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How to Predict the Performance of NBA Draft Prospects

David Turkington, Megan Czasonis, Mark Kritzman, Cel Kulasekaran

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Measuring Individual Competitiveness and its Impact on Sporting Success

Julene Palacios-Saracho, Ander Palacios-Saracho

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No More Throwing Darts at the Wall: Developing Fair Handicaps for Darts using a Markov Decision Process

Timothy C.Y. Chan, Craig Fernandes, Rachael Walker

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Noisy Judgments: A probability surface-based analysis of umpiring variability

Emily-Anne Patt, James Stockton

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Optimizing Baseball Fielder Positioning with Consideration for Adaptable Hitters

William Melville, Samuel Wise, Grant Nielson, Tristan Mott, Christopher Archibald, David Grimsman

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Player Pressure Map - A Novel Representation of Pressure in Soccer for Evaluating Player Performance in Different Game Contexts

Chaoyi Gu, Jaming Na, Yisheng Pei, Varuna De Silva

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The Strain of Success: A Predictive Model for Injury Risk Mitigation and Team Success in Soccer

Gregory Everett, Dr. Ryan Beal, Dr. Tim Matthews, Prof. Sarvapali Ramchurn, Prof. Timothy Norman

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Using Tracking Data to Build Offensive Line Development Tools

Eric Eager, Tej Seth, Ben Brown, Haley English, Geoff Schwartz 

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