Program

All times are US Eastern Time (New York).

Friday, April 11, 2025

Symposium: Day 1 – Workshops

• 12:00 PM–1:00 PM: Registration and Luncheon
  
• 1:00 PM-2:10 PM: Workshop Session 1
  • Track 1 (Intro): Introduction to R (Lucy Liu)
    
  • Track 2 (Intermediate): Web Scraping for Sports Analytics (Melanie Desroches)
    
  • Track 3 (Advanced): Causal Inference in Sports Analytics (Shinpei Nakamura-Sakai)
    • Title: Uncovering Causal Relationships in Sports Analytics: Methods and Applications
      
• 2:20 PM-3:30 PM: Workshop Session 2
  • Track 1 (Intro): Introduction to Python (Charitarth Chugh)
    
  • Track 2 (Intermediate): Tennis Analytics (Jaden Astle)
    
  • Track 3 (Advanced): Player Tracking (Quang Nguyen)
    
• 3:30 PM-4:10 PM: ☕ Break
  
• 4:15 PM-5:25 PM: Workshop Session 3
  • Track 1 (Intro): Data Visualization (Rahul Manna)
    
  • Track 2 (Intermediate): Basketball Analytics (Addison McGhee)
    • Title: Intro to Basketball Analytics Using R
      
  • Track 3 (Advanced): Leveraging Docker for Building Data Pipelines (Zuri Hunter)
    
  • Track 4 (Educators/Others): How to Create a Module for SCORE (Rachel Gidaro)
    
• 7:00-9:00 PM: Dinner for Speakers, Sponsors, and Organizers

Saturday, April 12, 2025

• 8:00 AM-3:30 PM: Registration Desk Open

Morning

• 08:00-08:50 AM: Continental Breakfast in Room
  
• 08:50-09:00 AM: Opening Remarks – Brian Macdonald, Meg Kirkpatrick, Sean Ahmed
  
• 09:00-10:00 AM: Keynote Presentation – Theo Epstein. Chair – Brian Macdonald
  
• 10:00-10:30 AM: ☕ Break
  
• 10:30-11:50 AM: Session 1: Sports Economics. Chair – [TBD]
  
• 11:50-12:00 AM: Travis Peterson Introduces the Data Challenge. Chair – [TBD]

Lunch/Poster

• 12:00-1:30 PM: Lunch & Poster Session / Mixer

Afternoon

• 1:30-2:30 PM: Panel Discussion. Moderator – Seth Walder
  
• 2:30-3:00 PM: Keynote Presentation – Lauren Poe. Chair – [TBD]
  
• 3:00-3:30 PM: ☕ Break
  
• 3:30-5:10 PM: Session 2: Advancements in Sports Analytics and Education. Chair – [TBD]
  
• 5:10-5:40 PM: Keynote Presentation – Cade Massey. Chair – [TBD]
  
• 5:40-5:50 PM: Wrap-up. Announcing the winners of the data challenge and poster winners
  
• 6:00-7:30 PM: Closing Reception for All Participants