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When COVID-19 brought live sports to a halt in early 2020, NASCAR and iRacing adjusted in real time to fill the void with the eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series. In this session, NASCAR Chief Digital Officer Tim Clark will go behind the scenes to share how televised virtual races featuring the sport’s biggest stars kept fans engaged, drove value for sponsors and introduced NASCAR to new audiences.
"… all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.” (George Box) Athletic departments at schools with under-enrollment have been caught in a bad-model trap, where the NCAA's accounting conventions lead them to make harmful economic decisions in the false belief they are cutting costs. Andy Schwarz (PCL, OSKR) works through why the accounting gets the economics so wrong, provides detailed examples from schools that have made mistaken cuts in 2020, and outlines a solution to avoid these errors going forward.
This presentation will review the critical role of vision in sports performance and highlight use examples of analytics in measuring the relationship between vison and on-field sports performance in professional baseball. Finally, future and current uses of the merging of analytics, medicine, and computer software and hardware will be discussed.
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