There are two sport analytics conferences later this year that deserve attention.The first is the 8th European Conference on Sport Economics, organized by the European Sport Economics Association (ESEA) and hosted at the University of Groningen from 31 August to 2 September. The conference will have presentations on papers discussing — you guessed it — […]
The 2016 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference is coming soon, albeit a couple of weeks later than usual. And once again the soccer analytics community will be stepping away from their computers to have a drink and attach human faces to virtual identities. The drinkup location is in the same spot as in previous years: Thursday 10 […]
About two months ago, I wrote on this blog that I had submitted a couple of proposals to the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference and the OptaPro Analytics Forum for consideration in their respective research symposia.About two weeks ago, I received the word from both conferences that none of the proposals was accepted. I’m never […]
The poster and talk abstracts for the 2015 NESSIS — the New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports — are now available ahead of the event which will be held at Harvard on 26 September. The conference is known for its presentations that advanced statistical and data science methods to problems in a diverse collection […]
The Soccer Analytics panel at the 2015 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference was not a waste of attendee’s time and I hope that future panels follow this year’s example.On the panel were the following: Michael Niemeyer (analysis coach for first and youth teams, FC Bayern Munich), Angus McNab (Opta Sports/PERFORM Group), Ravi Ramineni (performance analyst […]
The MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference has always been 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, […]
Later this week, I will attend my fifth MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, which encompasses the transition of the conference from a one-day meeting of academics and sport insiders to a two-day cultural event on sports analytics and sports business. I have attended all of the conferences in which there was a dedicated panel […]
The presentation at the OptaPro Analytics Forum has just finished, and now it is time to display the slide deck to the public. You can see the slide deck below, with reformatted slides and an additional results slide.As I said yesterday, the objective of this talk is to present at a high level the objectives and […]
As you might have noticed, I have not written much analytics content over the past month to five weeks. The reason is that I’ve been preparing for a talk that will be presented at the 2015 OptaPro Analytics Forum in London on Thursday. It’s been a lot of work, but presentation day is almost here.Unfortunately, […]
The 2015 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference is a month away, but it’s not too early to start thinking about the pre-Conference meetup and drinkup for soccer analysts and aficionados attending. The SSAC is at a different location this year but the drinkup location is the same as in previous years: Thursday 26 February 7pm […]
