The 6th Connecticut Sports Analytics Symposium was held April 11–12 at Yale University, drawing about 150 registrants for keynotes, a data challenge, workshops, and poster sessions.
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Cochran Dispels NFL Conspiracy Theory
James J. Cochran of the University of Alabama worked with ESPN to analyze NFL officiating data, finding no evidence that penalties systematically bias game outcomes.
2017 NESSIS Features Retrodictive Modeling, Shot Taxonomy, Randomness
The 2017 New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports is a meeting of statisticians and quantitative analysts connected with sports teams, sports media, and universities who come together to discuss common problems of interest in statistical modeling and analysis of sports data.