I just submitted that soccer Pythagorean paper to the MIT Sports Analytics conference. Now I'll have to wait until next month to see if I will be one of the presenters. When I find out, I'll post the news here.If the paper is not accepted, I'll post the paper on this site in January; if […]
The agenda for MIT's Sports Analytics conference continues to be filled out. And there will be some additional figures from the soccer world appearing — USSF president Sunil Gulati will appear on a panel discussing international trade in sport from American and European perspectives.For those of you who would like to submit a draft publication […]
[Originally written 31 October. Bumped to the top with updates.]A few nights ago I posted a link to the MIT Sports Analytics Conference to be held in March and later included a link to a call for papers to the event. I am thinking very seriously about submitting a paper to that conference. It will […]
In my first post on the Sports Analytics Conference at MIT's Sloan Business School, I lamented the fact that there were no sessions or panel discussions by anyone in the soccer world. That situation has since been remedied; there will be a discussion on "Emerging Analytics" with Michael Forde and Simon Wilson, who are the […]
I was trawling for conferences for statistical analysis in sport, and I came across this conference at MIT's Sloan School of Business in March. From the looks of it, they don't have any presentations on sport analytics from anyone in the soccer world. They should. UPDATE: This call for papers at the Conference might be […]
The American Statistical Association is hosting its annual Joint Statistical Meeting in Washington DC later this summer, and there will be a few sections devoted to the use of statistics in sports. There will be a plenary speaker, poster presentations, and invited and contributed paper sessions. There are a number of sports covered in the […]
I found this call for papers at the American Statistical Association (ASA) website:2nd International Conference on Mathematics in SportHampshire Hotel-Plaza, Groningen, Netherlands17-19 June 2009Topics to include: Econometrics in Sport; Competitive strategy; Match outcome models; Decision support systems; Analysis of sporting technologies; Analysis of rules and adjudication; Performance measures and models; Optimisation of sports performance; Mathematics […]
