A couple of months ago, OptaPro — Opta Sports’ professional services branch — announced a call for proposals for its Analytics Forum in early February. Over 100 proposals were submitted, including a couple of mine.I am pleased to announce that one of my proposals was one of ten accepted for presentation at the Forum — initial […]
A few months ago, I was trying to convince myself that attending this year’s Sloan Sports Analytics Conference was still worth the money, and after writing down the specific features of the conference I was able to do so. In the meantime, tickets for the Conference were selling at such a rate that the event […]
The theory and practice of sports analytics has grown exponentially over the last eight to ten years, and a number of conferences, symposia, and journals have formed to fill the demand for an exchange of information. I found out about one such journal that launched very recently called the Journal of Sports Analytics.The JSA was founded by […]
Interesting news from OptaPro — Opta Sports’ professional services arm — that player tracking data from English Premier League matches will be made available to successful proposals to their Analytics Forum next year. The data comes from Opta’s partner Tracab, which uses their image-tracking technology to generate 3D sports data for media customers (they are […]
I have been attending the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference since 2010, right at the time that the Conference was transitioning from an intimate meeting of professional sports insiders and academics to a slick and polished cultural event. As happens every year at this time, I receive notifications from the organizers of the conference that encourage […]
The OptaPro Analytics Forum has returned for a second year in 2015, and has issued a call for proposals. (more…)
The Joint Mathematics Meeting is the major mathematics conference in the USA, taking place in early January and organized by the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America and a few other technical organizations. Among the many sessions at the JMM is one on Mathematics and Sports, which returns for another year. (I don’t […]
The organizing committee of the 2015 International Conference on Mathematics in Sport (MathSport International) has announced its call for papers. Next year’s conference is hosted by Loughborough University in the UK from 29 June – 1 July 2015. (more…)
The Soccer Analytics panel at the 2014 MIT Sloan Sports Conference is a colossal waste of attendees’ time and should never return in its present form.It’s taken a while for me to reach this point. I’m not pleased to reach this point. I know half of the panelists on this year’s panel. I knew all […]
Welcome to the 2014 Soccer Analytics Panel at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. The panel is about to start, so let’s go!Sorry, my liveblog tools have decided not to work…paraphrasing panelist comments.Steven Houston (Hamburg) talking about the growth in analytics over last 12 months. Especially from outside clubs (analysts, bloggers, media) and moving insideJim […]
