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The 17th Annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

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Mar 4, 2023

Hynes Convention Center

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SLOAN SPORTS ANALYTICS CONFERENCE

Speakers

Sezin Aksoy

Senior Vice President, Global Data Strategy & Analytics, AXS

Ben Alamar

Sports Analytics Author & Consultant

Michael Albert

Assistant professor of Quantitative Analysis, University of Virginia Darden School of Business

Renie Anderson

Chief Revenue Officer and Executive Vice President, NFL Partnerships, NFL

Alex Baldwin

President, Korn Ferry Tour

Shane Battier

Investor, Founder of The Battier Take Charge Foundation, 2x NBA Champion with Miami Heat

Billy Bean

SVP | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion & Special Assistant to the Commissioner, Major League Baseball (MLB)

Jonathan Beane

Senior Vice President, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, NFL

Matthew Benham

Owner, Brentford FC and Majority Owner, FC Midtjylland

Jessica Berman

Commissioner, National Women’s Soccer League

Sue Bird

WNBA Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist, Co-Founder of A Touch More and Togethxr

Johanna Boynton

Chair and Principal Owner, Toronto Six (PHF)

Contessa Brewer

Correspondent, CNBC

Mark Broadie

Carson Family Professor of Business, Columbia Business School

Anthony Brock

Director of Business Analytics, Indiana Pacers

Olav Aleksander Bu

Co-Founder, Head of Performance for Norway Triathlon, Santara Technology

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Events

2023 Hackathon Presented by Ticketmaster

The 10th annual Hackathon at the 2023 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference will bring innovative and analytical minds together to create groundbreaking solutions in the sports industry.

Activities

2023 Startup Competition & Trade Show

The Startup Competition and Trade Show provides an opportunity for selected startups and small companies to showcase their innovations in the fields of sports-related technologies, products, and services. Those that are selected by the SSAC committee will have the opportunity to present their products and/or services to potential customers, business partners, investors, and employees. This year, the competition will be held in-person and each finalist will be able to pitch to a panel of judges at the conference.

Activities

Investing in Global Sports: Creating Value While Building Dynasties

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Sports & Society: Redefining Sports Culture and Organizations presented by Wasserman Foundation

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Player Power - Building Businesses by Empowering Athletes presented by Wasserman Foundation

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Performance Under Pressure

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The Play-by-Play of the Future: Navigating the Evolving Landscape of Sports Media

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Start Me Up: How New Leagues Are Innovating Sports and Capturing Fans

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The Future of Sports & Entrepreneurship: A Conversation with Jason Robins and Wyc Grousbeck

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Sports and Technology: Bringing Performance to the Next Level

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Start Your Engines: How Data is Fueling NASCAR's Strategy to Engage an Evolving Customer Base

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Partnerships 2.0: Data, Dollars, and Digitalization

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Big Events, Big Tickets, Big Experiences: Managing the Fan Experience When Stakes are Highest

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The Impact of Moneyball: 20 Years Later

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Soccer's Analytics Frontier

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Leveling Up: How Basketball Teams Deploy Analytics to Develop Players

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Data For Good: What Sports Can Learn From Other Industries

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The Chess Renaissance: Modern Challenges for an Ancient Game

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The Ultimate Team Sport: Building Better Football Rosters with Analytics

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Revamping America's Pastime: The Effect of Rule Changes in Baseball

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Pickleball: The Next Chapter for the World's Fastest Growing Sport

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Changing the Game: How the Sports Industry is Accelerating Progress in DEI

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Raising The Stakes: The Evolution of Poker Strategy

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Bet On It: A Conversation on Innovation in the Sports Betting Industry

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Sharpening Your Edges: The Role of Analytics in Sports Betting and Fantasy Sports

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Mind, Body, Machine: The Role of AI/ML in the Future of Sports

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The Last of Sports

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Social Media and Sports: How Consumption and Fanhood is Changing

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The Future of the Fan: Innovation, Data, and "Always On" Engagement presented by Ticketmaster

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Lessons From The Edge: Understanding Humans In The Pursuit of Peak Performance

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Entrepreneurship for Impact: Athletes Making a Mark

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The New Age of Golf: Players vs the Game

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Creating an NFL Player Tracking Metric presented by ESPN

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Hard Cap Constrains: Roster Construction in the Hard Cap Era of Hockey

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Beating the Book: Simulation-Driven Sports Betting

Workshops

Like and Subscribe: Co-Streaming and The Influencer Age of Esports

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Analytics On Air - The NBA's First Full-Time Analytics Broadcaster

Competitive Advantages

Using Crowd Sentiment To Help Pick Winners in Fantasy Football

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The Elam Ending Reaches the NBA G League

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Applying Pressure: Exploring Pitching's Next Data Driven Opportunity

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FemTech or "Bro"Tech: Are Data from Wearables Missing the Mark for Female Athletes?

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Transforming the LA28 Olympic & Paralympic Games with Data

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Virtual Becomes Reality: The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift

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The Future of Soccer Data in North America

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Esports Analytics for League of Legends

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How bobsleighing, the Roman army, and throw-in coaching innovated the world of soccer

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Advantage US Tennis: Leveraging Performance Analytics and Technology to Provide a Competitive Edge

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Negotiating for Seconds: Engineering the Sub 2-hr Marathon

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How Angel City FC is using data and analytics to gain massive popularity and drive revenue in LA

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FIFA World Cup 2022: A Data Journey Into the Future

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Golden State Warriors Global Fan Engagement & Growth Strategy

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The Data Evolution: Building efficient golf swings

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Winning Speedskating Medals Through Pareto Gains

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Win with AI: Exposing Winning Strategies in Sports

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Beyond the Beam: Inside the Sacramento Kings Fan Engagement Strategy

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Welcome to the Lakehouse: Best-of-Breed Data Stack in Sports

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Preparing for Launch: How the Miami Dolphins applied data analytics to strategize and amplify "The Moment"

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An Analytical Framework For Winning The Super Bowl

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Data-Driven Approaches to Responsible Gaming

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The Next Revolution of AI in Sport - Large Language Models

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Brittney Griner: Leveraging Data for Collective Action

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Ensembling & Wisdom of Crowds

Workshops

Introduction to Modern Football Analytics Using Play-by-Play Data

Workshops

Data Centered Decision Making: How to Implement a Process that maximizes the Value of Your Data

Workshops

Research Papers

A Game Theoretical Approach to Optimal Pitch Sequencing

William Melville, Jesse Melville, Theo Dawson, Delma Nieves-Rivera, Christopher Archibald, David Grimsman

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A Graph Neural Network deep-dive into successful counterattacks

Amod Sahasrabudhe, Joris Bekkers

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Competitive Balance in Professional Sports: A Multidimensional Perspective

Levi Bognar, Scott A. Brave, R. Andrew Butters, Kevin A. Roberts

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Correcting for preferential bias in NFL fourth-down decision making

Daniel Daly-Grafstein

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Estimating Positional Plus-Minus in the NBA

Hua Gong, Su Chen

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Explainable Defense Coverage Classification in NFL Games using Deep Neural Networks

Huan Song, Mohamad Al Jazaery, Haibo Ding, Lin Lee Cheong, Kyeong Hoon (Jonathan) Jung, Mike Band

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Fair and Efficient Ranking in Incomplete Tournaments

Fernando Leiva Bertran

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Learning Contextual Event Embeddings to Predict Player Performance in the MLB

Connor Heaton, Prasenjit Mitra,

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Mining football players' behavioral profile: identifying candidate proxy features from event data.

Luis Meireles, Tiago Mendes-Neves, João Mendes-Moreira

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Player Tracking Facilitates Valid Causal Inference: The Average Treatment Effect of Defender Proximity on Scoring

Matthew S. Tenan, Ali R. Rezai

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Reconstruction of Trajectories of Athletes Using Computer Vision Models and Kinetic Analysis

Qi Gan, Sao Mai Nguyen, Stephan Clémençon, Mounim A. El-Yacoubi, Ons Jelassi

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Robust Daily Fantasy Sports: Maximizing Reward via the Robust Optimization Paradigm

Dubem Mbeledogu

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Thinking the GOAT: Imitating Tennis Styles

Padmanaba Srinivasan, Raghavan Subramanian, William Knottenbelt,

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cricWAR: A reproducible system for evaluating player performance in limited-overs cricket

Hassan Rafique

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