Daily Schedule
Day One
OCT. 24
4:30 pm
Check-in and food
(pizza to be provided)
5:00 pm
LOCATION: Giant Eagle Auditorium
Conference sessions in Giant Eagle Auditorium
(times are subject to change)
Day Two
OCT. 25
8:00 am
8:50 am
CMU Statistics & Data Science
9:00 am
Keynote Address
Dean Oliver, ESPN
9:45 am
Coffee Break
10:00 am
Tractable Algorithms for Changepoint Detection in Player Performance Metrics
Amanda Glazer, UT Austin
10:30 am
Athlete Biometrics: Balancing Innovation and Privacy
Natalie Kupperman, UVA
11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:15 am
CMU Buggy Analytics
Catharine Ramage, CMU
11:25 am
Reproducible Research Competition Finalist - Student-track: Serve-Based Player Metrics in Tennis
Aiwen Li, Amrita Balajee, Audrey Kuan
University of Pennsylvania
11:40 am
Reproducible Research Competition Finalist - Student-track: A comps-based approach for interpreting tree-based predictions with an application to the NFL draft
Elisabeth Millington, Rice University
11:55 am
Lunch Break
Day Two (Continued)
OCT. 25
1:00 pm
PassPredictR: Contextualizing NFL Throwing Decisions Through Modeling Receiver Choice
Lou Zhou, Zachary Pipping
CMSACamp
1:15 pm
Unexpected Pressure: Surprisal-Weighted Evaluation of NFL Pass Rushers
Verity Nwabuisi, Cale Latimer
CMSACamp
1:30 pm
Tracking the Intangible: Quantifying Effort in the NFL
Emily Shteynberg, Luke Snavely, Sheryl Solorzano
CMSACamp
1:45 pm
Coffee Break
2:00 pm
Clustering Swing Behavior Within MLB Hitters
J. Dante Maurice, Tai Fowler
CMSACamp
2:15 pm
Draft Smart: Identifying Hidden Value in WNBA Expansion
Ella Sylvester, Isabella Ferrandiz, Jada Douthit
CMSACamp
2:30 pm
Forced Turnover: Evaluating Pressing Effectiveness in Soccer
David Almona
CMSACamp
2:45 pm
Insights from Goals Added per $10K: A Framework for Measuring Player Contract Efficiency in Major League Soccer
Otis Birnbaum
CMSACamp
3:00 pm
Coffee Break
3:15 pm
Reproducible Research Competition Finalist - Open-track: Modeling the limits of human performance: simulating the decathlon
Paul Nguyen, University of Wisconsin Madison
3:30 pm
Reproducible Research Competition Finalist - Open-track: Assessing Ranking Fidelity of Competition Structures via Weighted Mutual Information
Zach Culp, Josie Peterburs
Loyola University Chicago
3:45 pm
Poster Session
4:45 pm
Closing Keynote
Alok Pattani, Google
5:30 pm
Awards & Closing Remarks
5:45 pm
Networking Reception
7:00 pm
Social Event