Program

Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020 (Video Recordings under the Video Links)

• 08:30--8:45 Welcoming Remarks (Chair: Jun Yan) (Video)
  • Carl Lejuez, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Connecticut
  • Anthony Grasso, Football Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach, University of Connecticut
  • Devin Pleuler, Director of Analytics, Toronto Football Club
  • Michael Lopez, Director of Football Data and Analytics, National Football League
• 08:45--9:45: Keynote Presentation 1 (Chair: Michael Lopez) (Video)
  • Thompson Bliss: Estimating the Impact of Travel, Rest, and Playing at Home in the National Football League
• 09:50--10:50: Keynote Presentation 2 (Chair: Brian MacDonald) (Video)
  • Ronald Yurko: Going Deep: Models for Continuous-Time Within-Play Valuation of Game Outcomes in American Football with Tracking Data
• 10:50--12:50 Poster Session
• 13:00--15:00 Training Workshops Sponsored by RStudio
  • Concurrent Session 1 (Introductory)
    • 13:00--13:50: Introduction to R: Tuhin Sheikh (Video)
    • 14:00--14:50: Introduction to Python: Jun Jin
  • Concurrent Session 2 (Intermediate)
    • 13:00--13:50: Baseball Analytics with R: Dr. Zhe Wang
    • 14:00--14:50: Basketball Analytics with R: Jackson Lautier
  • Concurrent Session 3 (Advanced)
    • 13:00--13:50: Web Scraping for Sports Data: Yaqiong Yao (Video)
    • 14:00--14:50: Data Visualization with R: Yiming Zhang (Video)
• 15:10--16:10 Keynote Presentation 3 (Chair: Yao Zheng) (Video)
  • Stephanie Kovalchik: Making the Intangible Tangible: Using Mixture Models for Estimating Latent Quantities in Sports
• 16:15--17:15 Keynote Presentation 4 (Chair: Greg Matthews) (Video)
  • ESPN Sports Analytics Team: Redesign of NBA Basketball Power Index
• 17:15--17:30 Student Poster Award and Closing Ceremony