Past Conferences

The 19th Annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

Mar 7

Mar 8, 2025

Hynes Convention Center

Top Speakers

2025

Top Events

2025

'The Deal' featuring David Blitzer hosted by Alex Rodriguez and Jason Kelly

The NCAA’s Newest Power Players: The Rise of the GM

Building Sports Empires with an Entrepreneurial Edge: Michele Kang and Gerry Cardinale

Top Papers

2025

2024

The 18th Annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

Mar 1

Mar 2, 2024

Boston Convention and Exhibition Center

Top Speakers

2024

Top Events

2024

Beyond the Pitch: Transforming Soccer Through Advanced Analytics

Winning With AI: The Future of AI in Sports

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

Top Papers

2024

2023

The 17th Annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

Mar 3

Mar 4, 2023

Hynes Convention Center

Top Speakers

2023

Top Events

2023

The Chess Renaissance: Modern Challenges for an Ancient Game

Player Power - Building Businesses by Empowering Athletes presented by Wasserman Foundation

Performance Under Pressure

Top Papers

2023

2022

The 16th Annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

Mar 4

Mar 5, 2022

Hynes Convention Center

Top Speakers

2022

Top Events

2022

Transgender Athletes: A Conversation led by Malcolm Gladwell on Data and Participation Policy

Disrupting, Reimagining, & Crushing It!: A Conversation with Michael Rubin and Gary V

How to Win at Sports Betting: Building Models and Pricing Odds with Data Science Presented by FanDuel

Workshops

Top Papers

2022

2021

The 15th Annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

Apr 8

Apr 9, 2021

Virtual

Top Speakers

2021

Top Events

2021

Outwit, Outplay, Outlast: Survivor Analytics

A conversation with Andrew Yang and Nate Silver

A Conversation with Mark Cuban and Andy Slavitt

Top Papers

2021

2020

The 14th Annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

Mar 6

Mar 7, 2020

Boston Convention and Exhibition Center

Top Speakers

2020

Top Events

2020

Game (Show) Theory: An Omnibus Conversation with Jeopardy GOAT Ken Jennings and Nate Silver

Moneyball To Homerball With Bill James and Tom Tango

A New Arena: Careers After Sports

Top Papers

2020

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Programme Director, British Cycling

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Head of Global Insights, Qualtrics

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Founder/CEO, Zephyr Technologies; VP, Business Development, Medtronic

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Chief Business Officer, LA28

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Analyst, ESPN

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2018-conference

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Michael Bantom

Executive Vice President, Referee Operations, National Basketball Association

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2014-conference

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Caleb Weinstein

Director for Sport, Media, & Entertainment Google Cloud

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2020-conference

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Robert Stavins

Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, Harvard University

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2012-conference

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Kelly Cheeseman

Chief Operating Officer, Los Angeles Kings and AEG Sports

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2016-conference,2015-conference

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Mike Shane

Chief Business Officer Comcast Spectacor

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Kirk Lacob

Executive Vice President, Basketball Operations, and VP of GSW Sports Ventures, Golden State Warriors

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Malcolm Gladwell

Author

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Stephen McArdle

Chief Administrative Officer & Executive Vice President, Digital Media and Strategic Planning, NHL

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2018-conference

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Michelle Kennedy

Chief Operating Officer, Nashville Predators

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2019-conference

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John Urschel

Mathematician and former NFL offensive lineman

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2020-conference

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Asad Siddiqi

Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation & Regenerative Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center

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2019-conference

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Tony Reali

Around the Horn Host & Pardon the Interruption "Stat Boy", ESPN

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2013-conference,2012-conference

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Ryan Craig

Director of Digital Media, Duke University Athletics

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2015-conference

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Karl Ravech

Host, ESPN and Baseball Tonight

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2018-conference

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John Guttag

Dugald C. Jackson Professor of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, MIT

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2014-conference

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Ken Yusko

Professor, Marymount University

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2017-conference

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James Van Stone

CRO, Monumental Sports

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2016-conference

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Stephen A. Smith

Featured Commentator ESPN

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2020-conference,2021-conference

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Dafna Aaronson

Performance & People Analytics Specialist

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2020-conference

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Melissa Brenner

SVP, Digital Media,, NBA

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2017-conference

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Vosse De Boode

Head of Sports Science Ajax

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2020-conference

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Corbin Petro

President, Carelon Behavior Health

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2019-conference,2020-conference,2021-conference,2022-conference,2023-conference,2024-conference,2025-conference

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Edward Tufte

Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Statistics and Computer Science, Yale University

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2015-conference,2014-conference

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Ken Yusko

Professor, Marymount University

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2018-conference,2017-conference

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Rahul Kadavakolu

Executive Director of Global Branding & Marketing, Rakuten

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2019-conference

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Kevin Blue

Senior Associate Athletic Director, External Relations, Stanford University

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2015-conference

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Jared Smith

President, Ticketmaster North America

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2017-conference,2016-conference,2014-conference,2013-conference

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Travis McDonough

Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Kinduct Technologies Inc.

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2017-conference

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Ted Olson

Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

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2018-conference

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Matteo Monteverdi

President, Sportradar US

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2019-conference

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Tiffany Frits

Manager, Business Operations ESPN Stats and Information Group

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2020-conference

panels

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Saquon Barkley

Running Back, New York Giants

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2019-conference,2020-conference

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Evan Kaplan

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2020-conference

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Jerry Dipoto

Executive Vice President & General Manager, Baseball Operations, Seattle Mariners

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2018-conference

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baseball

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Hana Peljto Cluff

Vice President, Applied Analytics Solutions, WarnerMedia

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2019-conference

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Jason Bernard

Baseball Research and Development Manager MLB

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2020-conference

workshops

baseball

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Jordan Breen

Commentator, Strikeforce and Tachi Palance Fights; Writer, ESPN.com and Sherdog.com

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2013-conference

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combatsports

speakers

Stephen McArdle

Chief Administrative Officer & Executive Vice President, Digital Media and Strategic Planning, NHL

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2019-conference

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Ken Rosenthal

Senior Reporter, FOX

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2017-conference

panels

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Patrick Keane

CEO, The Action Network

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2019-conference

panels

speakers

Ryan Gustafson

VP, Business Strategy and Development, Seattle Sounders FC

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2018-conference

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Ben Cohen

Author, Wall Street Journal

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2020-conference,2023-conference

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Jordan Brenner

Contributing Writer, ESPN The Magazine and ESPN Insider

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2015-conference,2014-conference

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Kevin Kelley

Head Football Coach and Athletic Director, Pulaski Academy High School

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2014-conference

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football

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Greg Cain

VP, Baseball Data MLB

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2020-conference

panels

speakers

Deepak Malhotra

Professor at Harvard Business School

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2019-conference,2024-conference,2025-conference

panels

speakers

Bobby Webster

General Manager, Toronto Raptors

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2018-conference

panels

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Warren LeGarie

President, WGL Management

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2017-conference

panels

speakers

Lauren Riker

Global Marketing Analytics Manager New Balance

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2020-conference

panels

tennis

speakers

Richard Thaler

Nobel Prize-Winning Economist University of Chicago

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2020-conference

panels

speakers

Isaac Guerrero

Technical Director, FC Barcelona Football School

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2019-conference

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soccer

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Matthew Fields

Executive Vice President, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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2018-conference

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speakers

Tom Thibodeau

Former NBA Head Coach & Executive

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2020-conference

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Greg Economou

Chief Commercial Officer & Head of Sports, Ticketmaster

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2018-conference

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John DiFiori

Director of Sports Medicine, NBA

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2019-conference

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Debbie Knowlan

Director of Season Ticket Services, Atlanta Falcons

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2014-conference

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Amanda Raad

Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP

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2017-conference

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Gayle Sheppard

VP and GM, Saffron AI Group, Intel

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2017-conference,2016-conference

panels,competitive-advantages

speakers

Erin Prober

Director of Strategic Partnerships, LA Clippers

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2018-conference

competitive-advantages

speakers

John Bacon

Director of Operations, Zebra

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2017-conference

speakers

Casey Chafkin

Chief Revenue Officer and Co-Founder Skillz

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2020-conference

panels

esports

speakers

Tom Tango

Senior Data Architect MLB

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2020-conference

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speakers

Stuart Saw

Director of Channel Partners at Streamworks Interactive

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2012-conference

panels

esports

speakers

Charles Gao

Manager, Business Strategy and Analytics Golden State Warriors

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2020-conference

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basketball

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Meeta Singh

Medical Director, Henry Ford Sleep Laboratory

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2018-conference

competitive-advantages

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Patrick Young

VP and Director of Engineering, LBi Software

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2018-conference,2017-conference

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speakers

Casey Smith

Head Athletic, Trainer Dallas Mavericks

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2019-conference

panels

speakers

Milton Lee

CEO, Keemotion

milton-lee

2017-conference

competitive-advantages

speakers

Tony DeFeo

President, EdjSports

tony-defeo

2018-conference

competitive-advantages

football

speakers

James Carwana

GM,, Intel Sports Group

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2017-conference

panels

speakers

Erin Schnieders

VP, Venues, NBA

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2017-conference

panels

speakers

Nils Rudi

Professor of Operations Management, Yale University

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2025-conference,2014-conference

panels

speakers

Gary Loveman

Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School

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2019-conference

panels

speakers

Cole Gahagan

Chief Commercial Officer, Fanatics

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2019-conference

panels

speakers

Dave Watson

Bioinformatician, Queen Mary University of London

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2017-conference

competitive-advantages

golf

speakers

Peter Ibarra

Associate Director of Insights Solutions, Dstillery

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2016-conference

speakers

Michelle Wang

Director of Strategy, Ticketmaster

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2019-conference

panels

speakers

Ariel Kelman

Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Oracle

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2019-conference,2022-conference

panels

speakers

Greg Economou

Chief Commercial Officer & Head of Sports, Ticketmaster

greg-economou

2019-conference

panels

speakers

Chris Herring

Senior Writer, ESPN

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2017-conference

panels

speakers

Dan Hickman

Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Idaho

dan-hickman

2015-conference

competitive-advantages

golf

speakers

Damani Leech

Senior Vice President, Football Strategy & Business Development, NFL

damani-leech

2019-conference

panels

speakers

Tim McManus

Senior Vice President and Director, Global Program Management - AECOM

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2014-conference

panels

speakers

Akshay Patel

Director of Engineering, The Action Network

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2019-conference

speakers

Steve Koonin

Chief Executive Officer Atlanta Hawks

steve-koonin

2020-conference

panels

basketball

speakers

Chris Chaney

Founder and President, Infinite Esports

chris-chaney

2018-conference

panels

esports

speakers

Jake Williams

Head of Legal, Sportradar US

jake-williams

2017-conference

panels

speakers

Joe Ward

Sports Graphics Editor, The New York Times

joe-ward

2013-conference

panels

speakers

Tauhid Zaman

Operations Management Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

tauhid-zaman

2019-conference

competitive-advantages

speakers

Jason Roman

Basketball Operations Analyst, Houston Rockets

jason-roman

2018-conference

workshops

speakers

Joe Sill

Analytics Consultant for the Washington Wizards

joe-sill

2020-conference

panels

speakers

Shira Springer

Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management

shira-springer

2019-conference,2020-conference,2021-conference,2022-conference,2023-conference,2024-conference,2025-conference

panels

speakers

Markus Deutsch

CEO and Co-Founder, Fusion Sport

markus-deutsch

2018-conference

workshops

speakers

Leah Rindler

Fan Insight and Analytics Manager, Kansas City Chiefs

leah-rindler

2016-conference

speakers

Leveraging Data in Sponsorships

Bronson Green

Director of Strategic Operations, Kraft Sports & Entertainment

bronson-green

2019-conference

speakers

Day 1

Mar 6, 2020

Panels

Leveraging Digital Strategies and Analytics in Media and Sports

panels

shelly-cayette-weston

business,innovationtechnologydatascience,investmentfinance,fanegagementexperiencemarketing

events

Day 1

Competitive Advantages

competitive-advantages

russell-walker

innovationtechnologydatascience,mediacontent

events

Day 1

Competitive Advantages

Leveraging Machine Learning and Pitchf/x Data to Illuminate the Impact of Pitch Framing

competitive-advantages

andrew-engel

innovationtechnologydatascience

events

Day 1

Panels

Leveraging Sports Betting to Enhance the Fan Experience presented by Sportradar

panels

jacob-feldman,brian-josephs,keith-goldner,eric-rimsky,meghan-bird-burgoon

on-field,innovationtechnologydatascience,fanegagementexperiencemarketing,pokergambling

events

Day 1

Competitive Advantages

Life Behind the Curtain: An Inside Look at Working in an NFL Front Office

competitive-advantages

andrew-brandt

business,careerseducation

football

events

Day 1

Panels

Life of the College Student-Athlete

panels

shane-battier,amy-huchthausen,marcus-lattimore,greg-mcgarity,laura-marcinek

on-field,sportsinsociety

events

Day 2

Mar 4, 2023

Panels

Like and Subscribe: Co-Streaming and The Influencer Age of Esports

Live B.S. Report: Bill James one-on-one with Simmons

panels

nick-troop,parth-naidu,karim-fernandes

innovationtechnologydatascience,mediacontent,fanegagementexperiencemarketing

esports

events

Day 1

Panels

panels

bill-simmons,bill-james

business

events

Day 1

Panels

Live B.S. Report: Cuban one-on-one with Simmons

panels

bill-simmons,mark-cuban

business

events

Day 1

Competitive Advantages

Live Sports Viewers: Personalized Experiences, Advertising Trends, and Device Preferences

competitive-advantages

business

events

Day 1

Panels

Logos, Pathos, and Ethos: Sponsorship Analytics presented by Hookit

panels

elizabeth-lindsey,pat-lacroix,sam-kennedy,scott-tilton,cole-gahagan

innovationtechnologydatascience,fanegagementexperiencemarketing

events

Day 2

Panels

Luck Vs. Skill: Gambling Analytics

panels

jeff-ma,rufus-peabody,chad-millman,anette-hosoi,ryan-rodenberg

innovationtechnologydatascience,pokergambling

events

Day 1

Mar 6, 2020

Panels

MLS Growth Story: A Conversation With Don Garber and Jonathan Kraft

Machine Learning in Injury and Performance Analytics

panels

events

Day 1

Competitive Advantages

competitive-advantages

events

Day 1

Mar 1, 2024

Competitive Advantages

Make the Most of the Current Moment in Soccer Analytics

competitive-advantages

tyler-cox

innovationtechnologydatascience

soccer

events

Day 1

Competitive Advantages

Making Miracle Content

competitive-advantages

bryan-harper

mediacontent

events

Day 1

Panels

Making a QB1: The Science behind QB Evaluations

panels

field-yates,kevin-meers,jordan-palmer

innovationtechnologydatascience

football

events

Day 2

Mar 2, 2019

Panels

Making the Modern Athlete: A Conversation with David Epstein and Malcolm Gladwell

Making the Right Play: Optimizing the NBA's Season Structure

panels

malcolm-gladwell-2,david-epstein

mediacontent

events

Day 1

Mar 6, 2020

Panels

Man & Machine: Real Time Data and Referee Analytics

panels

shane-battier,evan-wasch,kevin-arnovitz,gersson-rosas,steve-koonin

mediacontent,fanegagementexperiencemarketing,biomechanicsinjurypreventionmentalhealth

basketball

events

Day 1

Panels

panels

hank-adams,dan-brooks,paul-hawkins,tom-penn,michael-bantom,mike-carey

innovationtechnologydatascience

events

Day 2

Mar 1, 2019

Panels

Managing The Big League Levers

Marathons, Milestones, and Moon Shots: the Science of Human Performance in the Era of Cheating

panels

alison-overholt,chris-greeley,rafael-stone,evan-wasch,damani-leech

fanegagementexperiencemarketing

events

Day 1

Competitive Advantages

competitive-advantages

peter-weyand

on-field

events

Day 1

Competitive Advantages

Marijuana as Medicine

competitive-advantages

andrew-brandt

sportsinsociety

events

Day 1

Panels

Marketing, Data & The Digital Fan

panels

lisa-baird,jessica-gelman,michal-lorenc,john-forese,dan-reed,ben-shields

innovationtechnologydatascience,fanegagementexperiencemarketing

events

Day 1

Mar 7, 2025

Panels

Mastering the Mind: The Psychology of Winning

Maxing Out & Getting Personal

panels

steve-magness-j176h,allison-feaster,sian-leah-beilock,lauren-rosen

on-field

events

Day 1

Competitive Advantages

competitive-advantages

anthony-perez

on-field

events

Day 1

Mar 6, 2020

Panels

Measuring the Immeasurable: Solving Soccer Analytics Using Machine Learning and Computer Vision presented by STATS Perform

Media Rights: Pricing, Power and Competition

panels

patrick-lucey

on-field,innovationtechnologydatascience,mediacontent

soccer

events

Day 1

Panels

panels

anita-elberse,bob-bowman,brian-rolapp,eric-shanks,john-skipper,jon-miller

business,mediacontent

events

Day 2

Mar 1, 2019

Panels

Metrics Are The Mike: Football Analytics

Michael Lewis – Going Deep with Mike Leach – The Most Innovative Mind in Football

panels

mina-kimes,kevin-demoff,sashi-brown,warren-sharp,karim-kassam,saquon-barkley

innovationtechnologydatascience

football

events

Day 2

Mar 2, 2019

Panels

Mind, Body, Machine: The Role of AI/ML in the Future of Sports

panels

mike-leach,michael-lewis

business

football

events

Day 2

Mar 4, 2023

Panels

Minding the College Football Analytics Gap

panels

patrick-lucey,daryl-morey,sherry-marcus,ethan-sherwood-strauss,s-matthew-liao

on-field,innovationtechnologydatascience

events

Day 1

Mar 7, 2025

Competitive Advantages

Mining For Medals – Using Analytics to Optimize Olympic Performance

competitive-advantages

karim-kassam

on-field,business,innovationtechnologydatascience

football

events

Day 1

Competitive Advantages

competitive-advantages

finbarr-kirwan

on-field,innovationtechnologydatascience

otherolympic

events

Day 2

Panels

Mission Impossible: The Art of Negotiation

panels

sam-hinkie,warren-legarie,bob-myers,deepak-malhotra

business

events

Day 1

Mar 1, 2024

Competitive Advantages

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

competitive-advantages

paulino-diaz

business,innovationtechnologydatascience,fanegagementexperiencemarketing

hockey

events

Day 1

Mar 7, 2025

Competitive Advantages

Modeling Injury Risk at the Tennessee Titans

Modern Nba Coaching: Balancing Team And Talent

competitive-advantages

sarah-bailey

on-field,innovationtechnologydatascience,biomechanicsinjurypreventionmentalhealth

events

Day 2

Panels

panels

scott-brooks,vinny-del-negro,brian-scalabrine,mike-brown

on-field

basketball

events

Day 1

Panels

Modern Sports Finance

panels

events

Day 1

Panels

Monday Morning Quarterback: Coaching and In-Game Decisions

panels

brian-burke,thomas-dimitroff,tony-reali,jack-del-rio,herm-edwards

on-field

football

events

Day 1

Competitive Advantages

Monetize and Measure Social Media Assets

competitive-advantages

adam-grow,erin-prober

mediacontent,fanegagementexperiencemarketing

events

Day 1

Competitive Advantages

Moneyball Plus. Predicting Player Performance Using Psychological Assessments: A Comparison Across the Major Sports

competitive-advantages

ken-yusko

on-field,innovationtechnologydatascience

events

Day 1

Panels

Moneyball Reunion

panels

billy-beane,bill-james,michael-lewis,jackie-macmullan

business

events

Day 2

Mar 6, 2020

Panels

Moneyball To Homerball With Bill James and Tom Tango

Moneymind: Overcoming Cognitive Bias

panels

bill-james,meghan-chayka,tom-tango

innovationtechnologydatascience,mediacontent

baseball

events

Day 1

Panels

panels

billy-beane,cade-massey,daryl-morey

business

events

Day 1

Panels

More than a Team: Innovation and Ownership

panels

jonathan-kraft,kim-pegula

business,innovationtechnologydatascience

events

Day 1

Panels

Motorsports Analytics, Presented by Sportvision

panels

andy-schwalb,gary-belsky,geoff-bodine,hank-adams

innovationtechnologydatascience

events

Day 2

Mar 6, 2020

Panels

Moving The Chains: Advancing Football Analytics

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

panels

mike-leach,brian-burke,mina-kimes,alec-halaby

innovationtechnologydatascience,mediacontent

football

events

Day 1

Mar 1, 2024

Competitive Advantages

competitive-advantages

events

Day 1

Competitive Advantages

Moving the Kickoff: How Data Around Concussions Led to a Rules Change in the Ivy League

competitive-advantages

carolyn-campbell-mcgovern

innovationtechnologydatascience

football

events

Day 1

Panels

NBA 2.0: New Rules to Transform the Game

panels

ben-falk,evan-wasch,mike-zarren,rafael-stone,kevin-arnovitz

business

basketball

events

Day 1

Mar 4, 2022

Competitive Advantages

NBA Strategy: Leveraging Analytics on In-Game Information Presented by Microsoft

NFL Insights: Delivery an Advanced Analytics Platform

competitive-advantages

phil-chang

innovationtechnologydatascience,fanegagementexperiencemarketing

basketball

events

Day 2

Mar 8, 2025

Panels

NCAA 2.0: What's Next?

Sue Bird Room

panels

michael-mccann,oliver-luck,mark-jackson,brian-higgins

on-field,business,innovationtechnologydatascience,investmentfinance,policygovernance,realestateinfrastructure

events

Day 1

Competitive Advantages

competitive-advantages

events

Day 1

Competitive Advantages

NFL Player Assessment Test: Using Psychological Tests to Predict Player Performance in the NFL

competitive-advantages

charles-scherbaum,ken-yusko

on-field

football

events

Day 1

Panels

NFL's Next Generation Statistics

panels

events

Day 2

Mar 5, 2022

Panels

NFTs, Ownership, and Utility: Outlining the Path Forward for Digital Assets Presented by Ticketmaster

NHL Club Business & Analytics

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rachel-jacobson,brendan-lynch,mickey-maher,sam-rubinroit,daryl-morey

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Competitive Advantages

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scott-jablonski

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hockey

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Day 1

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Need Fantastic Trophies

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daryl-morey,leore-avidar,roham-gharegozlou,nicolas-julia,mark-cuban

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Mar 4, 2023

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Negotiating for Seconds: Engineering the Sub 2-hr Marathon

Negotiating the Future: How Priorities Changed as a Result of COVID

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robby-ketchell

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trackfield

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Day 1

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michele-steele,demaurice-smith,kathy-carter,sue-bird

business,fanegagementexperiencemarketing,biomechanicsinjurypreventionmentalhealth

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Negotiations: Past, Present, And Future

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Day 1

Mar 7, 2025

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Netflix and WWE Team Up: Paul "Triple H" Levesque and Bela Bajaria

New Frontiers: How Emerging Leagues Are Reshaping Sports

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Mar 7, 2025

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Sue Bird Room

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shira-springer,mike-mccarley,katlyn-gao,mike-buckley,steve-argeris

business,innovationtechnologydatascience,mediacontent,investmentfinance,fanegagementexperiencemarketing

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Next Frontier in Baseball Analytics

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brandon-taubman,dusty-baker,jerry-dipoto,patrick-young,brian-kenny

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Day 1

Mar 6, 2020

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No Industry is Safe: The Opioid Epidemic in Sports and Society

No Lead is Safe: Innovation in Sports

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corbin-petro,seth-moulton,ryan-leaf,stephanie-wittels-wachs

innovationtechnologydatascience,sportsinsociety,policygovernance,biomechanicsinjurypreventionmentalhealth

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Mar 1, 2019

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Nothing But Net (Present Value): Investing in Sports

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gerry-cardinale,scott-oneil,wyc-grousbeck,saj-cherian

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Day 2

Mar 6, 2020

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Numbers Don’t Lie: Using Data in the Weight Room to Enhance On-Field Performance

Numbers Focused League: Football Analytics

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jeremy-jacobs

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Day 1

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kevin-demoff,sandy-weil,tedy-bruschi,mina-kimes

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Day 1

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Nuts and Bolts of Acquiring a Franchise

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george-postolos,joseph-mcnulty,rafael-stone,michele-steele

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Day 1

Mar 4, 2022

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OK, Zoomer: How Data Can Win Back Gen Z

Of Mice and Hockey Players: Cross Disciplinary Lessons About Tracking Data

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bo-han,omar-raja,tim-clark,tj-adeshola

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Day 2

Mar 8, 2025

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On A Finger Roll: Where the Basketball Analytics Movement Goes Next

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Mar 5, 2022

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Open for Business: How An Open Distribution Ticketing Network is Changing the Way the NFL Operates presented by KAGR

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allison-feaster,haralabos-voulgaris,katherine-evans,kevin-arnovitz,kirk-goldsberry

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On Deck with Rob Manfred

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Mar 5, 2020

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Optimization with JuMP in Julia

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Day 1

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Out Of The Ice Age: Analytics In The Nhl

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Outwit, Outplay, Outlast: Survivor Analytics

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rob-cesternino,wendell-holland,rick-devens,sophie-clarke,christian-hubicki

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Feb 27, 2014

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Ownership Perspectives: Managing Transitions

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amy-brooks,john-henry,john-walsh,wyc-grousbeck,vivek-ranadive

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Mar 4, 2022

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Packing a Punch with Data: How Analytics Have Fueled the UFC

Painting the Black: The State of Baseball Analytics

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duncan-french,deni-batchvarova,forrest-griffin,matt-kenny

on-field,innovationtechnologydatascience

combatsports

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Day 1

Mar 4, 2022

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Partnerships 2.0: Data, Dollars, and Digitalization

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Mar 3, 2023

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Partnerships: Activating Value

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Day 2

Mar 7, 2020

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Pass The Secret Sauce: Learning Across Sports

Pay Smart: Using remuneration strategy to gain an edge in the English Premier League

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Day 1

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ian-lynam

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Day 1

Mar 3, 2023

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Performance Under Pressure

Phillie Phanatics: How Teams Cultivate and Grow a Passionate Fanbase

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michael-lewis,sue-bird,brad-stevens,steve-magness

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Day 1

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Day 2

Mar 4, 2023

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Pickleball: The Next Chapter for the World's Fastest Growing Sport

Player Empowerment: I've Got The Power

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jessie-irvine,dave-fleming,brian-levine,connor-pardoe

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Day 1

Mar 5, 2020

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Player Grades: The Competitive Advantage in Football Performance

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jackie-macmullan,michael-rubin,kendrick-perkins,stephen-a-smith

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Day 1

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Day 1

Mar 3, 2023

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Player Power - Building Businesses by Empowering Athletes presented by Wasserman Foundation

Player Tracking Data and the Fan presented by ESPN

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Day 1

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Player Tracking at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey

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Day 2

Mar 6, 2020

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Playing Catchup: Estimating Player & Positional Value in (American) Football presented by ESPN

Playing Offense with AI: How the Florida Panthers Stay Ahead of the Ticket Market

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Day 1

Mar 7, 2025

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Playing for the Players: The Future of Player Advocacy

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michael-kesaris

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Day 1

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Playing the Data Game: NFL Players and Next Gen Stats

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Poets and Quants: How Analytics has Changed Sports Journalism

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Mar 4, 2022

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Power of Athletics on Society: 50 Years of Title IX Impact & the Path Forward Presented by Wasserman

(batter|pitcher)2vec: Statistic-Free Talent Modeling With Neural Player Embeddings

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A Cluster Analysis of NBA Players

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A Data Driven Goalkeeper Evaluation Framework

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A Data-driven Method for In-game Decision Making in MLB

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A Game Theoretical Approach to Optimal Pitch Sequencing

papers

A Game-theoretic Approach to the Football Endgame: When Should the "2-Minute Drill" Begin?

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A Graph Neural Network deep-dive into successful counterattacks

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A Machine Learning Approach to Player Value and Decision Making in Professional Ultimate Frisbee

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A Markov Approach to Untangling Intention Versus Execution in Tennis

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A New Framework to Estimate Return on Investment for Player Salaries in the National Basketball Association

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A No-Tanking Draft Allocation Policy

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A Poisson Betting Model with a Kelly Criterion Element for European Soccer

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

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A switching dynamic generalized linear model to detect abnormal performances in Major League Baseball

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Acceleration in the NBA: Towards an Algorithmic Taxonomy of Basketball Plays

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Accounting for Complementary Skill Sets When Evaluating NBA Players’ Values to a Speci􏰀ic Team

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Accuracy and National Bias of Figure Skating Judges: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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Alleviating Competitive Imbalance in NFL Schedules: An Integer-Programming Approach

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An Extensive Investigation of Strategies in Baseball

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An Open-Sourced Optical Tracking and Advanced eSports Analytics Platform for League of Legends

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Analytics for the Front Office: Valuing Protections on NBA Draft Picks

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

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

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Arsenal/Zone Rating: A PitchF/X based pitcher projection system

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Assessing the offensive productivity of NHL players using in-game win probabilities

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Automatically Recognizing On-Ball Screens

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Baseball Predictions and Strategies Using Explainable AI

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Bettor Up: Assess, Analyze, and Achieve

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Beyond Pythagorean expectation: How run distributions affect win percentage

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Beyond action valuation: A deep reinforcement learning framework for optimizing player decisions in soccer

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Beyond the Box Score: Using Psychological Metrics to Forecast NBA Success

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Bhostgusters: Realtime Interactive Play Sketching with Synthesized NBA Defenses

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Bullpen Strategies for Major League Baseball

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Buying Tickets: Capturing the dynamic factors that drive consumer purchase decisions for sporting events

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Call to the Pen: Maximizing pitcher effectiveness via topic modeled cluster centroid distances

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Can’t Buy Much Love: Why money is not baseball’s most valuable currency

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Causal Impact of Offensive Linemen on Pass Plays

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Changing the Major League Baseball: A Whole New Ballgame

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Characterization of Space and Time-Dependence of 3-Point Shots in Basketball

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Choke or Shine? Quantifying Soccer Players' Abilities to Perform Under Mental Pressure

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Chuckers: Measuring Lineup Shot Distribution Optimality Using Spatial Allocative Efficiency Models

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CoachAI+ Badminton Environment: Realistic Badminton Game Simulator for Enhancing Player Performance

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Competitive Balance in Professional Sports: A Multidimensional Perspective

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Correcting for preferential bias in NFL fourth-down decision making

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CourtVision: New Visual and Spatial Analytics for the NBA

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DIGR: A Defense Independent Rating of NHL Goaltenders using Spatially Smoothed Save Percentage Maps

papers

Data-Driven Ghosting using Deep Imitation Learning

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Data-driven lowlight and highlight reel creation based on explainable temporal game models

papers

Decoding MLB Pitch Sequencing Strategies via Directed Graph Embeddings

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Decomposing the Immeasurable Sport: A deep learning expected possession value framework for soccer

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Deconstructing the Rebound with Optical Tracking Data

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DeepQB: Deep Learning with Player Tracking to Quantify Quarterback Decision-Making & Performance

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Detection of tactical patterns using semi-supervised graph neural networks

papers

Diamonds on the Line: Profits through Investment Gaming

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Dissecting the Tennis Rally: Valuing Decision Making and Shot Execution in Tennis

papers

Do Behavioral Considerations Cloud Penalty-Kick Location Optimization in Professional Soccer: Game Theory & Empirical Testing using Polynomial Regression and ML Gradient Boosting

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Doinkalytics: A New Paradigm in National Football League (NFL) Placekicking Evaluation

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Effort vs. Concentration: The Asymmetric Impact of Pressure on NBA Performance

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Enhancing NBA True Shot Charts: A Probabilistic Spatial Approach to Rebounding and Possession Value

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

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Estimating Positional Plus-Minus in the NBA

papers

Evaluating Player Actions in Professional Counter Strike using Temporal Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks

papers

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Dynamic Pricing Strategies on MLB Single-Game Ticket Revenue

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Explainable Defense Coverage Classification in NFL Games using Deep Neural Networks

papers

Extracting Player Tracking Data from Video Using Non-Stationary Cameras and a Combination of Computer Vision Techniques

papers

Eye on the Ball: The Relationship Between Sensorimotor Abilities and On-Field Performance in Professional Baseball

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Fair and Efficient Ranking in Incomplete Tournaments

papers

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

papers

Finding the Open Receiver: A Quantitative Geospatial Analysis of Quarterback Decision-Making

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Flipping Coins in the War Room: Skill and Chance in the NFL Draft

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From 5 to 13: Redefining the Positions in Basketball

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From Markov models to Poisson point processes: Modeling movement in the NBA

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From Sports to Science: Using Basketball Analytics to Broaden the Appeal of Math and Science Among Youth

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Going for Three: Predicting the Likelihood of Field Goal Success with Logistic Regression

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Graphical Model for Baskeball Match Simulation

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High School Poster: A STARTING POINT FOR PREDICTING TEAM SUCCESS IN VOLLEYBALL

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High School Poster: HOW THE “COLOMBIAN CANNONBALL” FINALLY BROKE THROUGH – ANALYZING THE 2018 BRITISH OPEN SQUASH CHAMPIONSHIP

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High-resolution shot capture reveals systematic biases and an improved method for shooter evaluation

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How Much Do Coaches Matter

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

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How Much Trouble is Early Foul Trouble? Strategically Idling Resources in the NBA

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How to Play Strategically in Fantasy Sports (and Win)

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How to Predict the Performance of NBA Draft Prospects

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I Think We'll Go to Boston - Marathon Performance Prediction

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Improved NBA Adjusted +/- Using Regularization and Out-of-Sample Testing

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Increasing the shot at a quality draft-decision – A Bayesian approach to improve predicting three-point accuracy translation in the NBA Draft

papers

Learning Contextual Event Embeddings to Predict Player Performance in the MLB

papers

Learning Feature Representations from Football Tracking

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Learning from the Pros: Extracting Professional Goalkeeper Technique from Broadcast Footage

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Leaving Goals on the Pitch: Evaluating Decision Making in Soccer

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Leveraging Batter-Pitcher Matchups for Optimal Game Strategy

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Live Counter-Factual Analysis in Women’s Tennis using Automatic Key-Moment Detection

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Live by the Three, Die by the Three? The Price of Risk in the NBA

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MAYFIELD: Machine Learning Algorithm for Yearly Forecasting Indicators and Estimation of Long-Run Player Development

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Making Offensive Play Predictable - Using a Graph Convolutional Network to Understand Defensive Performance in Soccer

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Manager Over and Underachievement (MOU) Index: Ranking Soccer Managers

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Measuring Individual Competitiveness and its Impact on Sporting Success

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Measuring the Impact of Robotic Umpires

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Mining football players' behavioral profile: identifying candidate proxy features from event data.

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Mixed Membership Martial Arts: Data-Driven Analysis of Winning Martial Arts Styles

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