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The 20th Annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

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Governor and Owner, NY Liberty
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Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of the NFL
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Correspondent, CNBC
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Multiple WNBA Champion, Olympic Gold Medalist and Hall of Famer; Co-Founder of A Touch More and Togethxr; Host of Bird’s Eye View and Co-Host of A Touch More: The Podcast; Co-Owner Seattle Storm; USA Women’s Basketball National Team Managing Director; Partner and Chief Strategy Officer, Deep Blue Sports + Entertainment
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General Manager of St. Bonaventure Men’s Basketball
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Senior NBA Columnist at The Athletic
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President of Basketball Operations, Philadelphia 76ers
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Co-Founder and CEO of Stathletes
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Partner and CEO of Fenway Sports Group; President and CEO Boston Red Sox
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Statistician, Author, and Founder of Silver Bulletin
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Advisor, LA Clippers
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The Pitcher's Dilemma: A Game-Theoretical Model of Pickoffs and Stolen Bases
William Melville
Robert Greathouse
Tristan Mott
Christopher Archibald
David Grimsman
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Scouting Anyone: Probabilistic Player Archetypes for Any League
Sebastian Buzzalino
Thierry Aymerich
Marlin Myrte
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HoopEval: Individual Player Action Evaluation via Deep Reinforcement Learning
Xing Wang
Yu Fu
Sheng Xu
Konstantinos Pelechrinis
Mingxin Zhang
Miguel Ángel Gómez Ruano
Guiliang Liu
Shaoliang Zhang
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Asad Khan
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Better Prevent than Tackle: Valuing Defense in Soccer Based on Graph Neural Networks
Hyunsung Kim
Sangwoo Seo
Hoyoung Choi
Tom Boomstra
Jinsung Yoon
Chanyoung Park
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Valuing La Pausa: Quantifying Optimal Pass Timing Beyond Speed
Minho Lee
Geonhee Jo
Miru Hong
Prof. Dr. Pascal Bauer
Prof. Sang-Ki Ko
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Interpretable Prediction and Large-Scale Analysis of Judging in Professional Boxing
Mason duBoef
Thomas Romeas
Mathieu Charbonneau
Allan Svejstrup
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