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The 18th Annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

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Mar 2, 2024
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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 at ESPN

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Events

Fanalytics: Fan Engagement in a Virtual and Global World

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The Future of Sports and Sports Business

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Sports and Social Media: Attracting New Audiences Through Content Creation

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Future of Football: Innovation on the Gridiron

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Impacting the Game: The Advancement of Sports Analytics with Industry Pioneers presented by ESPN

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Beyond the Pitch: Transforming Soccer Through Advanced Analytics

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Beyond the Box Office: The Evolution of Ticketing

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A New Generation: The Next Era of College Athletics

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Seats at the Table: Empowering the Next Generation of Ownership and Changemakers presented by Wasserman Foundation

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Winning With AI: The Future of AI in Sports

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The LA Rams Championship Journey Off the Field: Remaking Data-Driven Marketing through Technology

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The Hunt is On: How the Timberwolves are Optimizing Business Growth while Leveraging On-Court Success

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Reimagining ‘why’ through needs-based segmentation

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Modeling A New Reality: How the Blackhawks Built a Performant Ticket Demand Model After a Transformational First-Round Pick

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Revolutionizing Sports Media: Ultra-High Resolution Immersive Capture and Emerging Tools for Broadcast TV Production

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Setting a New Standard for Women’s Sports Data: Expanding WCBB Coverage on College Basketball Reference

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Using Data to Support College Athlete Mental Health

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Research Collectives: The Call for Large-Scale, Open Science Initiatives in Sports Science

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AI at the Paris 2024 Olympics: Using GenAI to supercharge analytics and reach new audiences

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Spotlighting under-the-radar performers in women's college volleyball

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Buzz Cuts: Insights on the History of NBA Buzzer-Beaters

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Predicting Problem Gambling Among Sports Bettors

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Automatic Generation of Football Analytics

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Revving Up the Odds: Optimizing Man and Machine in NASCAR

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Enhancing the NFL Fan Experience Through Real Time Analytics

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Harnessing Machine Learning to Identify Top Sponsor Leads

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Game On: Elevating NBA Referee Performance with REPS

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Tour Analytics: Making Professional Golf More Data-Driven

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David vs. Goliath: The Underdog Mindset

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Competing on Sports Ownership

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The New Age of Sports Media: Content and Monetization

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In the Limelight: Investing in the Future of Women's Sports Media presented by Wasserman Foundation

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Partnerships: Activating Value

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Power of Data: Using Data For Good Across Industries

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The Game Changers: Entrepreneurship with Jason Robins and Rich Paul

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Entering a New Reality: The Future of Live Events

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The Power of Sports presented by Wasserman Foundation

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Fostering Fanatics: 1-on-1 with Michael Rubin

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The Data Revolution: Innovations in Data & Analytics Tools

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The Globalization of Soccer

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Evolution of Basketball Analytics: 20 Years of Nerds, Data, & Efficiency

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Behind the Scenes in Sports Negotiating: What the Fans & Media Don't Get to See

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The Digital Gambit: Creating Compelling Chess Content for New Audiences

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League Innovations: Balancing Tradition and Progress

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Stats to Stanley Cup: Building Successful NHL Teams

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From Probability to Profit: The Evolution of Poker Strategy

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Leveraging Sports Betting to Enhance the Fan Experience presented by Sportradar

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Growing the Game: How to Cultivate and Strengthen Golf Fandom

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The Numbers Game: Football Analytics from Combines to Championships

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Take Two: Sustaining Success in the New Look MLB

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Level Up: Analyzing the Influence of Brands on the Esports Ecosystem

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The New Playbook: Revolutionizing Sports Gaming with Data and Technology

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Generative AI: Strategic Optimization for Teams, Coaches & Players

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How the Orlando Magic Built a Data-Driven Strategy to Maximize Yield & Prepare for Growing Demand

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Elevating Young Athletes at Scale

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Beyond the Scoreboard: The Science of Crafting Member-Centric Entertainment Platforms

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Inside the Glass: the Making of NHL Edge IQ

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BET: Building Excellent Technology in the 313

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The SumerSports Draft Dashboard

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Make the Most of the Current Moment in Soccer Analytics

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Using Analytics to Drive Competitive Success for Team USA

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Winning the F.I.G.H.T. for Peak Performance

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Ford Field Analytics War Room with Detroit Lions and Trace3 – Improving Fan Experience

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Poker Power

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FoMO is Real: How Recent Breakthroughs in A.I. are Supercharging Your Opponent

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Bayesian Modeling Workshop: Building Statistical Models, Understanding When To Use Bayesian Inference

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Moving from Answering to Anticipating, A look at how women’s sports coverage is the new model

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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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