Sarah Rudd at On Footy proposed in email conversation with me about having a meetup of those soccer analytics people who are attending next week's Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, which I think is a really good idea. The plan is to have it on Friday night (4 March) at some establishment in Boston where people […]
There have been changes to the lineup for the Soccer Analytics forum at this year's Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Landon Donovan and Sunil Gulati are no longer listed as panelists, but there are some other participants: Bruno Aziza (Microsoft) Gavin Flieg (Manchester City) Steven Houston (Chelsea) Blake Wooster (Prozone) Ian Graham (Decision Technology, University of […]
I wasn't aware of this until Sarah Rudd alerted me to it on Twitter, but this year's MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference will have a Soccer Analytics session. (Hey, it's not like I'm checking the website everyday!) Last year's conference had an Emerging Analytics panel discussion which features representatives from soccer and American football, but […]
My research paper did not get accepted for next year's Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, but I will be at the conference anyway. I submitted my registration tonight.The conference will be a two-day event (4-5 March), with more panel discussions, an expanded research paper track (with research proceedings!), and a trade show for established businesses and […]
I sent out a tweet about this announcement last week, but I have been a little late in reporting this on the blog due to my trip to the Bay Area. If you were thinking about writing a conference paper for the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in March, THERE IS STILL TIME! The conference extended […]
This weekend I traveled to the San Francisco Bay Area to participate in the Northern California Symposium on Statistics and Operations Research in Sports (NCSSORS) at Menlo College in Menlo Park. This symposium is the West Coast counterpart to the New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports (NESSIS), which takes place every odd year at […]
The NCSSORS meeting is now over, and it turned out to be better than I thought it would be. Yes, I had the only soccer-related poster, and no, there were no soccer officials at the meeting, but it was very valuable to trade information and insights with the basketball and baseball analysts. In the end, […]
It's time for me to pack up my laptop along with my belongings and head to San Francisco (Menlo Park, actually) for NCSSORS — the Northern California Symposium on Statistics and Operations Research in Sports. I will be presenting a poster on my work with the soccer Pythagorean estimation, and I will be one of […]
At the end, I decided not to submit a paper to the 2011 Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. I had a paper idea in mind, but I wasn't able to get much progress in time to write a decent abstract, and I was struggling over whether it made enough of a contribution to present at this […]
I've spent the last three weeks working on a research paper with a local professor, and it's been kicking my tail. Conference paper submissions can be a real pain in the rear sometimes. (It's not related to soccer, in case you were wondering, and if my paper gets accepted I'd love to discuss it in […]
