UCSAS 2019 : Program

Program

Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019

08:00--13:30 McHugh Hall: Registration
09:00--09:15 McHugh 102: Welcoming remarks (Chair: Jun Yan)
- Peter Diplock, Assistant Vice Provost for Excellence in Teaching & Learning
- Jamelle Elliott , Associate Athletic Director for the UConn National 'C' Club, former UConn basketball player and Assistant Coach

09:15--10:15 McHugh 102 Keynote presentation 1 (Chair: Taaj Chima)
- Dr. Greg J. Matthews: How Often Does the Best Team Win? A Unified Approach to Understanding Randomness in North American Sport
10:15--10:30 McHugh 102: Sponsors demo
10:30--11:30 McHugh 102: Keynote presentation 2 (Chair: Elizabeth Schifano)
- Dr. Meredith J. Wills: How to Catch a Fly(ball) with Chopsticks
11:30--12:30 Lunch break (lunch not provided by the conference; Cafeteria is right next to McHugh)
12:30--13:30 McHugh Hall: Poster presentations and networking mixer
1. The Causal Effect of a Timeout at Stopping an Opposing Run in the NBA; Connor Gibbs*, Ryan Elmore, and Bailey Fosdick; Colorado State University
2. A Bayesian Joint Model of Mark and Intensity of Marked Spatial Point Processes with Application to Basketball Shot Chart; Jieying Jiao*, Guanyu Hu, and Jun Yan; University of Connecticut
3. Catching Trout; Natalie Maurice, Danielle Sebring*, Jacquelyn Valenzuela, and Ronald Yurko; California State University, Fullerton
4. Determining Player Valuation Through Team Impact; Proby Shandilya; Saratoga High School, California
5. Musings in NFL Analytics; Brian Bader; SimpleBet
6. Predicting outcomes of soccer gamers; Jack Schooley* and Jun Yan; University of Connecticut
7. Bayesian hierarchical models applied to fantasy games; Lucas da Cunha Godoy* and Marcos Oliveira Prates; University of Connecticut
13:30--15:20 Breakout training workshops (in parallel)
- Introductory Level
  - McHugh 301: Introduction to R: Tuhin Sheikh
  - McHugh 302: Introduction to Python: Jun Jin
- Intermediate Level
  - McHugh 201: Data Visualization with R: Yiming Zhang
  - McHugh 202: Baseball Analytics with R: Zhe Wang
- Advanced Level
  - McHugh 206: Web Scraping for Sports Data: Wanwan Xu
15:20--15:40 Tea break
15:40--16:40 McHugh 102: Keynote presenation 3 (Chair: Haim Bar)
- Dr. Brian Macdonald: An Overview of Data Science Problems in the Sports Industry