I’m pleased to announce that I will present at the Mathematics and Sports track of the 2017 Joint Mathematics Meeting, to be held January 4-6 in my hometown of Atlanta. There will a record 31 presentations in the track, so it will be broken up into three sessions that will occur on three consecutive afternoons.My presentation will be […]
I’ve just completed my talk at CASSIS, and I’m happy to see that the presentation has generated interest among the audience. I enjoyed giving it, and I enjoyed all of the other oral and poster presentations there. My sincere thanks to Tim Swartz and Luke Bornn for organizing this event, and I hope they do […]
The MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference has made its call for papers for the 2017 conference.As has been the case since 2011, research paper selection is done in a two-round process. In the first round, applicants submit abstracts of their research. Those who pass through the initial cull are invited to submit full papers, from […]
I’ve written about the Joint Mathematics Meeting on this blog over the last four years. It is the largest mathematics conference in the world and draws researchers, educators, and other interested people on a full range of topics in mathematics and mathematics education and societal impact. One session of interest to the sports analytics community […]
On Friday the organizers of the Cascadia Symposium on Statistics in Sports (CASSIS) finalized the event schedule. Here it is: Here’s the program for the 2016 Cascadia Symposium on Statistics in Sports, held in Sept. https://t.co/Bqkk8ZYwGkpic.twitter.com/hfWQElU7Ke— Michael Lopez (@StatsbyLopez) July 15, 2016It looks to be an interesting conference covering a variety of sports with speakers […]
I announced this last week on my Twitter feed, but in case you aren’t aware, I will be one of the oral presenters at the Cascadia Symposium on Statistics in Sports (CASSIS) in late September in Vancouver. CASSIS is being organized by Luke Bornn and Tim Swartz at Simon Fraser University and is the new West […]
Sports analytics conferences continue to pop up all over the world. Once such conference that I was made aware of is the Asia-Pacific Sports Analytics Conference that will take place 22 July in Melbourne. According to the official site, the conference is “the premier forum for industry professionals and executives interested in the role of […]
As I said Thursday night, I come to these conference panel discussions with low expectations. With competitors and journalists in the audience, there is very little chance of hearing candid discussions by participants, with the exception of Mark Cuban. I’ve had some time to collect my thoughts about yesterday’s Soccer Analytics panel, and my overall impression […]
The MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference has become more of a sports business conference through the years, but since 2010 the conference has had tracks in which presentations on various topics in sports analytics have been presented. This year the Research Paper competition returns to the SSAC, but this time with tracks for publications on Baseball, Basketball, […]
Later this week I will attend the 10th annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. It’s amazing how this conference has grown from a Boston-area gathering in MIT Sloan conference rooms into a slick and highly-polished event that attracts experts and enthusiasts in sports analytics and sports business. It’s also amazing that this will be my sixth […]
