Last month, Ben Alamar, who founded the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports eight years ago, announced that he would be transferring the editorship of the journal to Jim Albert, professor of mathematics and statistics at Bowling Green State University. Ben started the journal at a time when the field of sport statistics was in […]
On the Leaders in Performance website there is a retrospective on the conference by two British sport researchers – one the associate director of the Sport Sciences program at Liverpool John Moores University, the other a sport psychologist (and faculty member at the same university). It covers some of the sessions that I didn't attend, […]
Last week, tickets went on sale for the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, and I am pleased to announce that I will be there in early March of next year. The conference continues its exponential growth as it moves from the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center to the more centrally-located Hynes Convention Center. Conference tickets […]
I was in a discussion on Twitter with some people on the various sports analytics conferences that are either focused on soccer or have soccer-related forums. One such conference is the Science and Football conference in the UK, which had its inaugural meeting last year. The second edition of the conference has been confirmed for […]
Last week I attended the Leaders in Performance conference, hosted by Chelsea Football Club at Stamford Bridge. The conference is part of the Leaders conferences that are co-located at Chelsea — the others focusing on football, sponsorship, digital sport, and horseracing — and is one of the two conferences that occur over two days (Leaders […]
So today is my birthday, and what do I get to do today? Pack my bags and fly out to London for the Leaders in Performance conference at Chelsea FC. I'm excited to find out what the conference is all about and determine the receptivity of the major football clubs to more analytical and systematic […]
My talk entitled "Entrepreneurship and Soccer Analytics" that I gave at Florida State's Sports Management Conference is now available here as a PDF. It will also be available on the public FTP site of Soccermetrics Research & Consulting in the Presentations folder.My thanks to Dr. Ryan Rodenberg for extending the invitation to present. It was a […]
On Friday I will give a presentation at the 13th Sports Management Conference hosted by Florida State University's Sports Management program. My talk is entitled "Entrepreneurship and Soccer Analytics", which isn't the best title that I could come up with but nevertheless covers the scope of my presentation. I will talk about the motivation for […]
*** PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE ***I have settled on a place to have my Big UK Drinkup — an opportunity for those attending the Leaders in Performance conference as well as those UK-based readers of my site to enjoy a few brews and meet in a relaxed and informal setting. And it's a chance for […]
The Manchester Business School is hosting a new Sports Analytics Conference to be held on the 16th of November. According to the organizers, the conference "is a unique opportunity for High Performance sports professionals to gain a thorough understanding of this revolutionary discipline [sports analytics]." The list of speakers is still to be confirmed, but […]
