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HoopStudies



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:55 pm    Post subject: New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports Reply with quote

The Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports announces

--Call for Abstracts and Special Issue--

2007 NEW ENGLAND SYMPOSIUM ON STATISTICS IN SPORTS

Harvard University
Saturday, September 29, 2007

Jointly sponsored by:
Harvard University, Department of Statistics
American Statistical Association, Boston Chapter Section on Statistics in Sports Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, Section on Operations Research in Sports

The 2007 New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports will be a meeting of statisticians and quantitative analysts connected with sports teams, sports media, and universities to discuss common problems of interest in statistical modeling and analysis of sports data. The symposium format will be a mixture of talks and posters, as well as a panel discussion.

**Proceedings of the symposium will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports (JQAS).**

SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: MAY 31, 2007.

Abstracts should be no more than 250 words, and should clearly outline the work that you would like to present. Please indicate whether you would be willing to present your work only as a talk, only as a poster, or either. Inclusion in the special issue of JQAS is at the discretion of the presenter.

Along with your abstract, please include:
- the title of the presentation
- your name
- your affiliation
- a contact e-mail address

Please e-mail abstracts as a Word or plain text file by May 31, 2007, to nessis07@gmail.com for consideration to be on the program. Decisions for accepting abstracts will be made by June 15, 2007.

Further details of the conference, including registration information, will be posted at http://www.amstat.org/chapters/boston/nessis07.html

Please contact symposium co-organizers Mark Glickman (mg@bu.edu) or Scott Evans (evans@sdac.harvard.edu) with any questions.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hopefully there won't be a $100 admission charge!
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Don Babbitt



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

First the conference at MIT and now this? I left town and am missing quite a bit.

Another reason to move back?

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tpryan



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 2:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is very interesting. I wish that I could attend but probably won't be able to do so.

As a minor point of clarification, since the Journal's announcement of the sponsoring groups had some of them run together, I've listed them separately below.


*Harvard University Department of Statistics
*Section on Statistics in Sports of the American Statistical Association
*Boston Chapter of the American Statistical Association
*Section on Operations Research in Sports of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.
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Eli W



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

They now have a listing of presentations up on the site:

http://www.amstat.org/chapters/boston/nessis/program.html

Looks like Dan Rosenbaum will be presenting a paper that Dave Lewin contributed to, and Mike Zarren will be part of a panel. Also Justin Wolfers will be presenting his paper on racial bias in officiating.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 4:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for posting the link, John. The program participants include some people who are well known in the field of statistics, in general, notably Carl Morris, Cyrus Mehta, and Robin Lock. (I've known the first two for many years.)

Having just looked over all of the abstracts and the affiliations of the authors, I almost wonder if statisticians at Penn are working on anything other than sports statistics research these days. Wink
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 4:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The abstract for a poster presentation by Kenny Shirley "A Markov model for basketball" caught my eye. What it finds about productivity after offensive and defensive rebounds and independence of events might add to the discussion. Anybody with thoughts about the approach? A report back on this topic after the presentation would be of interest.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 8:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mountain wrote:
The abstract for a poster presentation by Kenny Shirley "A Markov model for basketball" caught my eye. What it finds about productivity after offensive and defensive rebounds and independence of events might add to the discussion. Anybody with thoughts about the approach? A report back on this topic after the presentation would be of interest.


It's similar to something I've been grappling with for a while. Markov chains for something like basketball is tough, because how specific do you want to be with it? Too specific and it's too difficult to track and probably not instructive. Too vague and it doesn't tell you much.
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John Beattie



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are there current updates on NESSIS? Now that it's 2-1/2 weeks away, do we know more definitely which APBR types will be attending...in addition to Dan Rosenbaum who will be presenting and Mike Zarren who will be a panelist.

Upon my inquiry, co-organizer Mark Glickman has given one assurance:

> You can definitely register on-site - the lecture
> hall is large enough so that the event won't sell
> out. Please spread the word if anyone asks.

I.e. anyone unsure of whether they can attend will have the luxury of being able to decide up until just shortly before the event.

By contrast, the MIT Sloan Sports Business Conference last February 10 sold out a few days in advance.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll be there.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NESSIS has now gotten a mention by Henry Abbott in his TrueHoop blog on ESPN.com - see http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-28-80/Stat-Fight-.html?post=true .
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm there too. Conveniently it's the day after the C's media day, so I can double dip. See you guys up there.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 6:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great, I can't wait to have John peering over my shoulder for media day all day Friday... Sigh... Smile

Anyways, as those who pre-registered for the conference were notified last week, I won't be able to be a part of the scheduled panel at NESSIS due to a sudden requirement here at work. But I hope to be there for part of the morning session and will probably also be meeting with some people Friday night. My apologies for the fact I won't be there for the panel.

-MZ
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 6:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I finally found a reasonably priced ticket (though I'll have to fly overnight Friday, arrive Boston Sat. morning) so I'll be there.

--Mike Tamada
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 6:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm really bummed I'll be missing this.

Can I ask anyone to pick up a copy of the abstract book and any relevant posters and mail them to me? I'll pick up the tab for the postage.
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