Press
If you are a media outlet looking to cover this year's conference, please contact Ben Schlesinger, Managing Director of Marketing and Communication, at media@sloansportsconference.com or Patricia Favreau of the MIT Sloan Office of Media Relations (617-253-3492, pfavreau@mit.edu).
Press Room 2010
PRINT MEDIA
- NYTimes.com Off the Dribble Blog - Numbers for Statistical Analysis Conference On Rise
- Boston.com Extra Bases - MIT Hosting Sports Analytics Conference
- The Tech - Sloan Will Hold Sports Analytics Conference
- NYTimes.com Fifth Down Blog - Don't Bother Bill Polian With the Probabilities
- BostonHerald.com - Bill Polian has Patriots Coach Bill Belichick's Back on Fourth-and-2. Go Figure.
- Boston.com - Other Side's View
- DenverPost.com - Hochman: Mavericks Clearly Mean Business
- Boston.com Celebrity News - For Tune, Another Step in Time (see the last paragraph)
- Sports Illustrated - The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth
DIGITAL MEDIA
- Forbes.com - 4th Annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference to Bring Sports Industry Leaders to Boston
- News.WBRU - Meeting of the Minds: Five Thoughts From the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
- ProFootballTalk.NBCSports - Polian: Belichick Fourth Down Call "100 Percent the Right Decision"
- ESPN.com True Hoop - The Stat Movement Goes Establishment
- ESPNBoston.com - Where Do Sports Stats End?
- ESPNBoston.com - Polian, in Town, Talks Fourth-and-2
- ESPN.com - Key Moments at MIT
- HardwoodParoxysm.com - It's Not Whether You Can Find the Perfect Stats, It's How You Use Them to Play the Game
- NBAPlaybook.com - The Value of a Blocked Shot
- Blazersedge.com - The Blazers Brain Trust Has its Day
- BasketballProspectus.com- Entering the Mainstream
- Huffington Post - Dorkapalooza 2010
- Huffington Post - "Geekfest" Draws A-List Crowd in Beantown
- Celtics Hub - Will Coaches Listen to Stat Heads
- Celtics Hub - Bias in Officiating
- Basketball-reference.com - Thoughts on the 2010 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
- ESPN.com - Bill Simmons' 3/12/10 Mailbag
- NBA.com - Context Just as Important as Numbers in World of Stats
- TCBReveiw.com - A "Better" Workforce?
- Hardballtimes.com - The State of Sabermetrics: Insights From the 2010 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
- WSJ.com The Daily Fix Blog - Conference discussed in second section
- ESPN.com - The State of Basketball Analysis
PODCASTS
Press Room 2009
PRINT MEDIA
- ESPN The Magazine - Never come between an NBA stat geek and the truth
- Sports Business Journal - Even on analytics' home court, gut feeling has its fans (subscription required), click here without a subscription
- Cleveland Plain Dealer - NBA Insider: Going way beyond the box score
- Associated Press - Sports teams hoping they can weather recession
- New York Times - The No-Stats All-Star
- Mass High Tech - NBA, sports execs use tech, analytics to gain edge in player picks
- Mass High Tech - Buzzient tracks online buzz for teams, firms
DIGITAL MEDIA
- SlamOnline.com - Measuring the Secret Sauce
- ESPN.com - John Hollinger's PER Diem: March 9, 2009
- TrueHoop - Trickle Down Enthusiasm?
- The Hardball Times - Dorkapalooza 2009: The sports analytics conference at MIT
- Baseball Musings - MIT-Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
- Baseball Daily Digest - 2009 MIT Sports Analytic Conference
- Technology Review - How the Experts Quantify Sports
- Ars Technica - Geeks get in the game at Sports Analytics Conference
- GetToGreen - MIT Sports Analytics Conference
PODCASTS
- The BS Report - Bill Simmons talks to Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey about T-Mac, his path to GM, basketball statistics and the recent Dorkapalooza 2009
- Baseball Prospectus Radio - Baseball Analytics Panel
PRESS RELEASE
- Official Press Release - 3rd Annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
- Official Addendum - MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference Sold Out with Record Number of Participants
Press Room - 2008
PRINT MEDIA
- New York Times - Houston’s G.M. Is a Revolutionary Spirit in a Risk-Averse Mind
- Boston Globe - Ideas batted around: Sports business conference focus
- Washington Times - Greetings From Cambridge, Mass.
DIGITAL MEDIA
- Sports Business Journal
- Stat Sheet
- Football Outsiders
- Baseball Musings
- MIT Technology Review
- MIT News Office
- Bentley Vanguard
PRESS RELEASE
Press Room - 2007
PRINT MEDIA
DIGITAL MEDIA
- Baseball Prospectus
- Hardball Times
- Baseball Musings
- Redsoxnation.net
- Diamond Analytics Blog
- Baseball Prospectus
