Completing my review of the 2012 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, I give my take on the panel sessions that I attended, as well as the Research Paper competition and the Evolution of Sport. I spent most of my time checking out the trade show and talking to people in the hallways, so don’t look […]
Of course, there was more going on at the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference than a Soccer Analysts panel, and I will write about the other major events in this post.The level of interest in the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference has grown exponentially since the days when it was hosted in a lecture hall at MIT’s […]
Time to kick off my review of the 2012 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference with the highlight of the conference from a soccer perspective: the Soccer Analytics session. In the space of three years, Soccer Analytics has grown from being shoehorned into an Emerging Analytics session in 2010 to a standalone session in 2012, hosted […]
Today is the day of the Soccer Analytics Panel at the 2012 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. There are some late changes to the panel, but I’m looking forward to a stimulating discussion from the panelists. Follow along for the liveblog at 1300 EST (1800 GMT).To refresh your memory, the panelists are: Steven Houston (Hamburg […]
Day 1 of the 2012 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference is done, and it was a long, tiring, but informative day. But before I talk about the first day, I should first mention the Soccer Analysts meetup the night before. Sarah Rudd of the On Football blog (and now an employee of StatDNA) organized the […]
I’m packing my bags and grabbing my laptop and business cards for the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference starting tomorrow. Some final items before I go: I arrive in Boston tomorrow afternoon, and will be there until about 3pm Saturday afternoon. I will be at the Soccer Analysts meetup that Sarah Rudd is organizing tomorrow night […]
This post is the third and final preview article of the 2012 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference from a soccer perspective. In this post I will discuss the Soccer Analytics panel.As I said in the first part of my preview, I first attended the SSAC in 2010. It turned out to be very good timing […]
This is the second of my three-part preview of the 2012 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. In this post I will look at the Evolution of Sport presentations from a soccer analytics perspective.The SSAC added an Evolution of Sport (EOS) session last year to highlight presentations on ideas, technologies, or thoughts that have the potential […]
