Philip Maymin, “An open-sourced optical tracking and advanced eSports analytics platform for League of Legends”, presented at the 12th MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, Boston, MA, 2018. [PDF]eSports games should have lots of advanced data at their disposal, but the reality is that they don’t. In fact, most of the statistics available in games are […]
I was going to write a longish preview of the two soccer-related panels at this year’s MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, but after a big night at the pre-SSAC Soccer Analytics Mixer (and you REALLY should have been there) and a late rise, I’m going to make this short.I suppose I should be thankful to […]
Alongside the Research Paper competition at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference are the research poster displays. Research posters have always been a part of the SSAC (at least since I started attending in 2010), and even the research paper finalists had accompanying posters. In recent years more attention has been paid to the research […]
The MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference is more of a sports business conference these days, but the MIT association conveys a conference that also values rigorous and high-quality research. The Research Paper competition keeps the SSAC connected to this heritage as it evolves. This year the competition returns with tracks for publications on Baseball, Basketball, Other […]
