4th AUEB Sports Analytics Workshop (AUEB SAW2019)

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AUEB Sports Analytics Group announces the 4th AUEB Sports Analytics Workshop (AUEB SAW2019)

​which will be hosted at Athens University of Economics and Business (Greece) and it is organized by AUEB Sports Analytics Group, the Computational and Bayesian Statistics Lab and the the Department of Statistics from Monday 25th of November to Tuesday 26th of November 2019. 

The workshop is also accompanied by a short course on BASKETBALL DATA SCIENCE (25-28 November 2019).

Topics include:
***   Mathematical and physical models in sports
***   Performance measures and models
***   Optimisation of sports performance
***   Statistics and probability models
***   Match outcome models
***   Competitive strategy
***   Game theoretical models
***   Optimal tournament design and scheduling,
***   Decision support systems
***   Econometrics in sport
***   Analysis of sporting technologies
***   Computationally intensive methods
***   Financial valuation in sport

Confirmed Speakers:
***   Measuring spatial performance in basketball by CART  by Marica Manisera, University of Brescia
***   Comparing statistical models and machine learning algorithms in predicting football outcomes  by Leonardo Egidi, University of Trieste
***   Do football spectators like or hate dynasties?  by Stefan Kesenne, Emeritus Professor, University of Leuven, Belgium
***   Why is the market of professional football not a free-entry market?  by Stefan Kesenne, Emeritus Professor, University of Leuven, Belgium
***   A Unified Bayesian Model for Volleyball by Ioannis Ntzoufras, AUEB, Greece
***   When the next goal will occur? A Bayesian Survival Analysis Approach in Football  by  Ilias Leriou, AUEB, Greece​​
***   Dimitris Karlis, AUEB, Greece​​
***   Panos Repoussis, University of Athens, Greece​​
***   Walter Sebastian Gisler, GotSoccer, USA 
***   Christos Marmarinos, University of Athens, Greece​​
***   Vasileios Armatas, University of Athens, Greece​​
***   Sotiris Drikos, AUEB Sports Analytics Group, Greece​​
***   Vasileios Manasis, AUEB Sports Analytics Group, Greece​​
***   Maria Gkouma, Next Mile Ltd, Greece

A very limited number of contributed talks will be accepted until 4 of November 2019. Please send email at ntzoufras@aueb.gr. 

Details can be found in the AUEB SAW2019 webpage and the facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/401637693840002/ (Workshop) & https://www.facebook.com/events/547639902660364/(Short Course)

Early registration by 4 of November 2019 at https://aueb-analytics.wixsite.com/saw2019/registration