This is the fourth year of a dedicated Soccer Analytics panel at the SSAC, and the fifth time that a panel has discussed soccer at the conference (in 2010, it was lumped with American football in an Emerging Analytics session). The session has experienced a variety of participants since 2011, but with two exceptions — […]
It is time for the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, and I am pleased to announce the return of a most recent tradition: the pre-SSAC Soccer Analytics Meetup.Here are the details: Thursday 27 February 7pm – ? McGreevy’s Boston 911 Boylston St., Boston 02115 Grab a beer, a bite to eat, make a friend, and […]
Last week I had the privilege of attending the OptaPro Analytics Forum in London. It was organized by OptaPro, Opta Sports’ professional services organization, with the objective of bringing together in one room a select group of football analytics researchers and performance analysts and other officials from the professional football clubs which use Opta data […]
I do have a technical post that I’m trying to finish tonight, but I wanted to post this message before I forget it.I mentioned on Twitter a few weeks ago, but I wanted to repeat on the site that I will be attending the Opta Analytics Forum in London on Thursday. My travel plans are […]
It’s time to return to Blighty for the Leaders Sports Summit and some football in the land where it was created. I wanted to create an opportunity for those analysts attending the Leaders conferences as well as other people working in the football industry in London to meet me and interact with each other. So […]
I received the following call for abstracts to the 2014 AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meeting to be held in Baltimore on 15-18 January. The JMM has had a Math and Sports session for a couple of years now, and they are doing it again this year. The abstracts are for 15-minute talks on current research and […]
There is a lot going on at and around the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference — sessions, demos, launches, and of course, parties. Lots of parties. I went to the Soccer Analytics gathering at McGreevy’s in downtown Boston last Thursday night and spent a wonderful evening talking shop with people working in the field or […]
This weekend I returned to the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, a “must-appear” event for the sports analytics community, and an increasingly influential event in the sports business world. This year was the third edition of the Soccer Analytics panel, and for the first time, a member of the analytics blogosphere was on stage.Returning to […]
As most of you found out this afternoon, I wasn’t able to liveblog the Soccer Analytics panel on the site because of connectivity issues in the main venue. I did take notes of the discussions in the Soccer Analytics panel and I’m reproducing them here. (more…)
For what it’s worth, I finally got online and the Soccer Analytics panel is three-quarters gone.I am adding the summary later, but I’ll liveblog the remainder, for what it’s worth.
