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The 19th Annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

Mar 7

Mar 8, 2025

Hynes Convention Center

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2025

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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

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2022

2021

The 15th Annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

Apr 8

Apr 9, 2021

Virtual

Top Speakers

2021

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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

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2020

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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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Mar 3, 2023

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Win with AI: Exposing Winning Strategies in Sports

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

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

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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

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Data-Driven Ghosting using Deep Imitation Learning

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

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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

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Diamonds on the Line: Profits through Investment Gaming

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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Learning Contextual Event Embeddings to Predict Player Performance in the MLB

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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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