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The Sloan Sports Analytics Conference is proud to present the Robotics room with FIRST, a display of the sport of the mind.
The Sloan Sports Analytics Conference is proud to present the Robotics room with FIRST, a display of the sport of the mind. Featured in this room will be students and robots in the three competition age groups, FIRST LEGO League, FIRST Tech Challenge, and FIRST Robotics. Attendees can see the innovation and creativity the students use to build the robots, see a competition, and try their hand at running a robot.
In only its second year of operation, the Premier Lacrosse League successfully pivoted to a bubble-style 2020 Championship Series. Leading with data and analytics, the PLL was one of the first pro sports leagues back to field and had zero positive COVID cases during their 2020 Championship Series. This presentation will take us inside the PLL as we learn about their data-driven season.
"… 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.
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