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163 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe official podcast channel of the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
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Continuing to Grow in the Esports World
July 07, 2022 21:35 - 59 minutes - 109 MBChris Greeley - Head of Esports in North America and Oceania, Riot Games Alyson Walker - Chief Commercial Officer, OverActive Media Tricia Sugita - CEO, FlyQuest Sports Doug Watson - Head of Esports Insights, Riot Games Greg Kim (moderator) - Head of CLG, Madison Square Garden Sports As esports rapidly gains popularity, leagues and teams are facing new and exciting challenges engaging their digitally native audiences. The opportunity is huge: 2.5 billion people play online games, generat...
OK, Zoomer: How Data Can Win Back Gen Z
July 07, 2022 21:16 - 59 minutes - 108 MBBo Han - Founder & CEO, Buzzer Omar Raja - Commentator, Digital and Social Content, ESPN Tim Clark - SVP & Chief Digital Officer, NASCAR TJ Adeshola (moderator) - Head of U.S. Sports, Twitter For generations sports have relied on children inheriting their fandom from their parents or from participation in youth sports. For Gen Z, however, that may not be the case. According to a recent study, 23 percent of respondents ages 25 and below said they are passionate sports fans, compared to 4...
Future of the Fan
July 07, 2022 21:00 - 56 minutes - 104 MBJessica Gelman - CEO, Kraft Analytics Group Paul Caine - President, On Location Tom Garfinkel - Vice Chairman, President & CEO, Miami Dolphins Kim Pegula - President of Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres, President and CEO of Pegula Sports and Entertainment Abe Madkour (moderator) - Publisher & Executive Editor, Sports Business Journal A sports fan is an enthusiastic devotee with an intense, and occasionally overwhelming, enthusiasm. Sports continue to dominate our mindshare, whether tha...
Disrupting, Reimagining, & Crushing It!: A Conversation with Michael Rubin and Gary V
July 07, 2022 20:51 - 55 minutes - 101 MBMichael Rubin - CEO, Fanatics Gary Vaynerchuk - CEO, VaynerMedia Jessica Gelman (moderator) - CEO, Kraft Analytics Group Serial entrepreneurs Michael Rubin and Gary Vaynerchuk are two of the most prolific disruptors in sports and entertainment. From an early embrace of technology and a focus on how customers want to engage with sports, Michael and Gary have rewritten the ecommerce, social media, and now NFT landscape while growing global brands and movements. Their shared drive for embrac...
Data, Snipe, Celly: The State of Hockey Analytics
June 30, 2022 16:06 - 1 hour - 111 MBDominic Moore - NHL Analyst on ESPN, Former NHL Player Namita Nandakumar - Senior Quantitative Analyst, Seattle Kraken Meghan Chayka - Co-Founder/CEO of Stathletes Brant Berglund - Senior Director of Coaching & GM Applications, NHL Greg Wyshynski (moderator) - Senior NHL Writer, ESPN It may not have been obvious to those watching NHL opening night, but there were more cameras than ever pointed towards the ice. And they weren’t from your local newspaper. Over the offseason, the NHL impl...
Painting the Black: The State of Baseball Analytics
June 30, 2022 16:02 - 1 hour - 112 MBBill James - Former Senior Baseball Operations Advisor Boston Red Sox Doug Fearing - Co-founder and President, Zelus Analytics Cole Figueroa - Director of Baseball Operations, Tampa Bay Rays Nate Silver (moderator) - Statistician, Author and Founder FiveThirtyEight It’s been 45 years since Bill James started publishing the quintessential Baseball Abstract series in 1977. In that time, the use of data has transformed the game of baseball. Yet, despite how long analytics have been a pa...
In the Trenches of Football Analytics
June 30, 2022 16:00 - 52 minutes - 95.9 MBSarah Mallepalle - Player Personnel Analyst, Baltimore Ravens Kevin Demoff - Chief Operating Officer, Los Angeles Rams Mitch Schwartz - Former Offensive Tackle, Kansas City Chiefs Brian Burke - Senior Analytics Specialist, ESPN Kevin Clark (moderator) - Staff Writer, The Ringer Although NFL executives may have been slower to embrace the analytics movement than their counterparts in MLB and NBA, 2021 marked the first year that every team in the league had a dedicated analytics staffer an...
On a Finger Roll: Where the Basketball Analytics Movement Goes Next
June 30, 2022 15:29 - 56 minutes - 104 MBAllison Feaster - VP of Player Development & Organizational Growth, Boston Celtics Haralabos Voulgaris - Former Director of Quantitative Research and Development, Dallas Mavericks Katherine Evans - VP of Research and Information Systems, Monumental Sports & Entertainment Kirk Goldsberry - NBA Analyst, ESPN Kevin Arnovitz (moderator) - NBA Writer, ESPN.com The NBA analytics revolution has happened: big men are shooting more three-pointers, mid-range shots have declined, and small bal...
Transgender Athletes: A Conversation Led by Malcolm Gladwell on Data and Participation Policy
June 23, 2022 23:29 - 54 minutes - 100 MBRoss Tucker - Sports Scientist Katie Barnes - Feature Writer, ESPN Joanna Harper - PhD, Loughborough University Malcolm Gladwell (moderator) - Author Data brings important insights to better ground discussions, especially the conversation of transgender athletes. Transgender athletes are increasingly competing at the highest levels, raising the need for data to define fair play. More nuanced discussions around regulation, legislation, and overall competition are becoming commonplace. ...
Power of Athletics on Society: 50 Years of Title IX presented by Wasserman
June 23, 2022 23:11 - 58 minutes - 108 MBMiguel Cardona - U.S. Secretary of Education Maura Healey - Massachusetts Attorney General Laurie Hernandez - American Artistic Gymnast Sue Bird - Point Guard, Seattle Storm Shira Springer (moderator) - Journalist and Lecturer, Boston University & MIT Sloan Sports inspire us to fight harder, train longer, and continuously strive to be the best. The lessons learned through sport are often the foundation for success later in life. Since Title IX passed in 1972, women have increasingly ga...
Alternative Investing: Teams and SPACs
September 03, 2021 14:52 - 47 minutes - 86.8 MBJosh Harris - Co-Founder, Apollo Global Management, Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment Billy Beane - Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations, Oakland A's John Collins - CEO, SEAH Jason Robins - Chief Executive Officer, DraftKings Saj Cherian (moderator) - Partner, Kynetic As sports values continue to accelerate, the interest and opportunities to invest in organizations around sports has intensified. From SPACs to team valuations to minority investments, the mon...
A Conversation with Mark Cuban and Andy Slavitt
September 03, 2021 14:51 - 45 minutes - 84.2 MBMark Cuban - Owner, Dallas Mavericks Andy Slavitt - Senior Advisor, White House COVID Response Team Nate Silver - Editor-in-Chief, FiveThirtyEight Of all the aspects of everyday life that data has transformed, perhaps nowhere was the impact more deeply felt than in healthcare. As friends and two leading public voices, Andy Slavitt and Mark Cuban will discuss healthcare and the role data has had, and will continue to have, in improving care and society at large. While data has rev...
A Keeper: The Evolution of Soccer Analytics
September 03, 2021 14:51 - 45 minutes - 84.2 MBRavi Ramineni - VP of Soccer Analytics and Research, Seattle Sounders Ted Knutson - CEO and Founder, StatsBomb Heather O'Reilly - Assistant Coach, University of North Carolina Gregg Berhalter - Coach, US Men's National Soccer Team We have seen the adoption of analytics transform the transfer, training, and development at soccer teams such as Liverpool and Sounders. This panel explores a deeper adoption and usage of analytics in the world’s most popular sport. Tune in to hear ...
The Data Dangle: Hockey Analytics
September 03, 2021 14:50 - 46 minutes - 84.8 MBMeghan Chayka - Co-Founder & CEO, Stathletes Alexandra Mandrycky - Director of Hockey Strategy and Research, Seattle Kraken Hilary Knight - Professional Hockey Player, US Women's National Ice Hockey Team John Buccigross (moderator) - SportsCenter Anchor, ESPN The amount of data available to NHL teams has exploded over the last year as player and puck tracking officially entered the rink. By some estimates, tracked players and pucks produce a total of 2,200 data points per sec...
Sabermetrics vs. The World: Are Analytics Baseball‘s Answer?
September 03, 2021 14:49 - 44 minutes - 82.4 MBBill James - Former Senior Baseball Operations Advisor, Boston Red Sox Meg Rowley - Managing Editor, FanGraphs Sarah Gelles - Director of Research and Development, Houston Astros Josh Ruffin - Advanced Scouting Analyst, Minnesota Twins Ben Lindbergh (moderator) - Staff Writer, The Ringer Soon after the 2020 World Series, fundamentalist fans were quick to point to baseball’s overreliance on analytics as one of the reasons the Tampa Bay Rays lost. Baseball has always been o...
Super Glue: Investigating Basketball Culture vs. Analytics
September 03, 2021 14:48 - 47 minutes - 87 MBDavid Fizdale - Former Head Coach, New York Knicks Shane Battier - Vice President Basketball Development & Analytics, Miami Heat Zach Lowe - Senior Writer, ESPN Adrian Wojnarowski (moderator) - Senior NBA Insider, ESPN Analytics have revolutionized sports to identify new strategies and help evaluate players, but what about intangibles? How do we evaluate the ‘glue’ players that play a pivotal role in the locker room, but whose names are not necessarily atop the stat sheet, or...
A Conversation with Andrew Yang and Nate Silver
September 02, 2021 15:29 - 45 minutes - 83.5 MBNate Silver - Editor-in-Chief, FiveThirtyEight Andrew Yang - New York City Mayoral Candidate New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang likes MATH. So does Nate Silver. In this special one-on-one conversation, hear from Yang as he reflects on life since his 2020 presidential campaign, the role of data in reaching voters, and what it was like to be a Knicks fan in the Jeremy Lin era.
Backdoor Cover: Revolutionizing Sports During COVID
September 02, 2021 15:29 - 46 minutes - 85.9 MBScott O'Neil - Chief Executive Officer, Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment Erika Nardini - CEO, Barstool Sports Jason Robins - Chief Executive Officer, DraftKings Chad Millman (moderator) - Chief Content Officer, The Action Network Sports betting organizations have changed the way fans experience games from opening dedicated lounges in stadiums to including fantasy stats on ticker tapes. Leagues and front offices have capitalized on this wealth of fan behavior to see what ...
Negotiating the Future: How Priorities Changed as a Result of COVID
September 02, 2021 15:28 - 45 minutes - 82.7 MBKathy Carter - CEO, U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Properties DeMaurice Smith - Executive Director, NFLPA Sue Bird - Athlete, Seattle Storm Michele Steele (moderator) - Correspondent, ESPN The Return to Play faced unprecedented competing priorities and needs. From player safety to business continuation to sponsor obligations to maintaining Fan Interest to ensuring our 2028 Olympians can train to brand launches. New processes like daily testing were created and validated and change...
When the Sports World Stopped & How it Came Back to Life: COVID and the Future of Sports
September 02, 2021 15:27 - 49 minutes - 91 MBDana White - President, UFC Jonathan Kraft - President, The Kraft Group Jackie MacMullan - Senior Writer, ESPN Sports businesses were not spared as COVID brought the entire world to a grinding halt in 2020, forcing businesses to adapt quickly to the new environment. Seasons were cancelled, stadiums were turned into vaccination sites, and fans looked forward to a new ‘Opening Day’: a day when sports would return. As the sports industry works towards a new normal, this panel of sports...
Quantify This: Valuing Sports Sponsorships Presented by Bose
September 02, 2021 15:26 - 44 minutes - 81.4 MBRenie Anderson - Chief Revenue Officer & Vice President Partnerships, NFL Catherine Carlson - Senior Vice President Revenue and Strategy, Philadelphia Eagles Brendan Lynch - Global Executive Vice President Enterprise & Revenue, Ticketmaster Kat Frederick (moderator) - Former CMO, Live Nation As COVID forced game play to a screeching halt requiring innovation to deliver sports to fans virtually, the traditional sports sponsorship model had to be re-invented too. Learn how the ...
Women‘s Sports: The Time is NOW
September 02, 2021 15:24 - 48 minutes - 89.4 MBAlexis Ohanian - Founder, Seven Seven Six Cathy Engelbert - Commissioner, WNBA Kate Johnson - Director and Head of Global Sports & Entertainment Marketing Partnerships, Content, and Media, Google Jessica Gelman (moderator) - CEO, Kraft Analytics Group There is a misconception that people do not want to view women’s sports, driving the notion that women’s sports cannot make money and are a bad investment. This perpetuates a cycle that puts down the industry, but is based on fa...
Phillie Phanatics
September 01, 2021 15:22 - 46 minutes - 86 MBLil Dicky - Artist Daryl Morey - President of Basketball Operations, Philadelphia 76ers Kevin Negandhi (moderator) - SportsCenter Anchor and College Football Studio Host, ESPN From Frank Sinatra’s Rat Pack to T-Swift’s Girl Gang, many a backroom legend has been told about exclusive celebrity supergroups. But only a select few have been deemed worthy enough to have picked up whispers of an ultra-elite group of superfans – until today. This unlikely squad is not bound by undergroun...
Getting a Handle on Social Media: How Data is Engaging GenZ without Losing GenX
September 01, 2021 15:21 - 45 minutes - 84.2 MBMatthew "Nadeshot" Haag - CEO, 100Thieves Omar Raja - Commentator Digital and Social Content, ESPN Blake Stuchin, Vice President Digital Media Business Development, NFL Christine Wixted - Senior Partner Manager Global Content Partnerships, Twitter Jordan Solomon (moderator) - Partner, Arctos Sports Partners Social media platform users and usage have skyrocketed over the past year, and every industry wants to get in on the action. Twitch viewers watched approximately 17 bi...
The New Sports Fan: Innovation and Data
September 01, 2021 15:18 - 47 minutes - 86.7 MBValerie Camillo - President of Business Operations, Comcast Spectacor Marie Donoghue - VP of Global Sports Video, Amazon Jessica Gelman - CEO, Kraft Analytics Group Alison Overholt (moderator) - General Manager, Oprah Daily In 2021, precedent is not a predictor of who fans are or what they want. Learn how leading executives from the most forward thinking organizations in sports (Amazon, Comcast and KAGR) are using data to understand how to attract new fans, create new experie...
Show Not Tell: Sports Storytelling
September 01, 2021 15:17 - 48 minutes - 88.2 MBMichael Lewis - Author Adam McKay - Film Director People have been telling stories about the lives of athletes for centuries. More recently, it seems that athletes have taken a more active role in telling their own stories. In this panel, we bring together director/producer Adam McKay (Anchorman, Talladega Nights) and author Michael Lewis (The Big Short, Moneyball) to discuss this changing industry paradigm. Together, McKay and Lewis will discuss a variety of topics from how they bri...
Adapting on the Fly: The Future of Ticketing
September 01, 2021 15:16 - 47 minutes - 86.2 MBClay Luter - EVP & Co-Head of Sports, Ticketmaster Mike Markovich - VP of Business Development, NFL Stevie Gray - Vice President Ticket Operations, Golden State Warriors Kristin Bernert (moderator) - Executive Vice President, Madison Square Garden Sports A multi-billion dollar industry reliant on live events, evaporated overnight in March 2020. Fans had tickets to games that might never happen or happen in a year. Teams and leagues held money for games they would need to refu...
Need Fantastic Trophies
September 01, 2021 15:14 - 48 minutes - 88.9 MBMark Cuban - Owner, Dallas Mavericks Leore Avidar - Founder and CEO, Alt Roham Gharegozlou - CEO, Dapper Labs Nicolas Julia - CEO, Sorare Daryl Morey (moderator) - President of Basketball Operations, Philadelphia 76ers Over two weeks in February, the value of a pristine condition Michael Jordan rookie card went from $215,000 to $738,000. The value of sports memorabilia - ranging from cards, to sneakers, to even digital highlights - has reached an all time high despite a p...
Select Your Fighter: How to Assess Players and Build an Esports Roster
September 01, 2021 15:14 - 46 minutes - 85.1 MBGreg Kim - Director of Esports, Evil Geniuses Tal Shachar - Former Chief Digital Officer, Immortals Emily Rand - Analyst, League Championship Series Doug Watson - Head of Esports Insights, Riot Games Ryan Friedman (moderator) - Former Chief of Staff, Dignitas The Moneyball mentality has expanded from baseball to most traditional sports, as teams look for any edge that they can get on the field. Esports leagues and teams are no different. Coaches and players fight over see...
The Show Must Go On: Digitization of the Sports World
September 01, 2021 15:12 - 47 minutes - 86.7 MBStephanie McMahon - Chief Brand Officer, WWE Steve Pagliuca - Co-Chairman, Bain Capital Burke Magnus - Executive Vice President Programming and Original Content, ESPN Scott Soshnick (moderator) - Editor-in-Chief, Sportico From engineering interactive viewing experiences to orchestrating virtual drafts, the production value of live sports skyrocketed when watching from home was the only option for most fans. While fans love the new changes, we rarely get a peek behind the curt...
Making a QB1: The Science behind QB Evaluations
August 31, 2021 14:01 - 42 minutes - 77.7 MBJordan Palmer - Quarterback Coach and Former NFL Quarterback, QB Summit Kevin Meers - Zelus Analytics, Football Strategy Fellow Field Yates (moderator) - Insider & Co-Host, ESPN In 2020, we witnessed the emergence of unexpected NFL quarterback stars alongside a carousel of moves. Listen in for an in-depth, end-to-end analysis on what it means to be a quarterback and what the role entails. Our panel of football experts will look at how analytics can be used to evaluate, scout, and...
Say Goodbye to the 40 Yard Dash: The Future of NFL Roster Building
August 31, 2021 14:00 - 49 minutes - 90.2 MBBrian Burke - Senior Sports Analyst, ESPN Nick Caserio - General Manager, Houston Texans Kevin Demoff - Chief Operating Officer, Los Angeles Rams Kevin Clark (moderator) - NFL Reporter, The Ringer With COVID nearly cancelling the college football season and ruling out pro-days for many schools, NFL front offices were left scrambling to fill out their draft boards. However, the rise of tracking data in college football, as well as indications that traditional metrics, such as ...
Beyond the Gambit: Chess‘ Big Move
August 31, 2021 14:00 - 46 minutes - 85.6 MBJennifer Shahade - Chess Grandmaster and Director, US Chess Women Hikaru Nakamura - Chess Grandmaster Robert Hess - Chess Grandmaster, Coach, and Commentator Daryl Morey - President of Basketball Operations, Philadelphia 76ers Danny Rensch (moderator) - Chief Chess Officer, Chess.com The queen is arguably the most important piece on the chess board, and The Queen’s Gambit has been the sport’s MVP in a year of surging popularity. More than the flavor of the moment, strateg...
Acceleration of Sports Data Innovation at ESPN
August 31, 2021 14:00 - 46 minutes - 85.9 MBMark Walker - Senior Vice President Content Business Development and Innovation, ESPN Jeff Bennett - VP Stats and Information, ESPN Dayveon Ross - Co-Founder and President, Shot Tracker Kevin Lopes (moderator) - Senior Director of Content Business Development & Innovation, ESPN Data analysis and presentation is an increasingly important part of fan expectation and sports consumption. This discussion will be rooted in how ESPN can create new high-quality analyses to enhance fa...
Evolving Sports Through Technology: How Data is Changing the Way We Innovate in Sports Presented by AWS
August 31, 2021 14:00 - 44 minutes - 81 MBRob Smedley - Director of Data Systems, Formula One Management Ltd. Jennifer Langton - Senior Vice President of Health and Safety Innovation, NFL Priya Ponnapalli - Senior Manager and Principal Scientist, Amazon Machine Learning Solutions Lab Will Lopes - CEO, Catapult Ben Fischer (moderator) - Writer, Sports Business Journal How are advances in technology and data changing the sports world? In this panel, we dissect the impact of improvements in data technology on sports...
Outwit, Outplay, Out-analyze: Survivor Analytics
August 31, 2021 14:00 - 48 minutes - 87.9 MBWendell Holland - Founder, Beve Unlimited Rick Devens - Former Contestant, Survivor Sophie Clark - Former Winner, Survivor Christian Hubicki - Roboticist and Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Rob Cesternino (moderator) - Host and Creator, Rob Has a Podcast Since it first aired on American television screens in 2000, Survivor has captivated audiences. With over 40 seasons and nearly 600 episodes, Survivor boasts 7 Emmys on 63 no...
Howzdata: How Analytics is Revolutionizing Cricket
August 31, 2021 14:00 - 52 minutes - 95.9 MBIsa Guha - Presenter & Commentator, BBC Sport Gary Kirsten - International Cricket Coach Rahul Dravid - Director of Cricket Operations, National Cricket Academy, Bengaluru Alok Singh - Director Global Strategy & Transformation, Dell Technologies Cricket has grown in popularity as a sport throughout the years. In 2020, the Indian Premier League (IPL) became the first sports tournament to surpass 400 billion viewing minutes and new leagues continue to be created in new markets....
Self-Made Sports Legends and Entrepreneurs: Michael Rubin and A-Rod
August 30, 2021 18:00 - 46 minutes - 84.4 MBAlex Rodriguez - Founder, A-Rod Corporation Michael Rubin - Executive Chairman, Fanatics Jessica Gelman (moderator) - CEO, Kraft Analytics Group As teenagers, Michael Rubin and Alex Rodriguez took different paths to learning the skills which would one day lead each of them to redefine the sports industry. In 1993, A-Rod was the #1 MLB draft pick. Talented and self-made. That same year, Michael’s 3rd venture in sports was generating $1mm in annual sales. Fearless and self-made. Fa...
Trash Talking: Live at SSAC Presented by Oracle
August 30, 2021 18:00 - 46 minutes - 85.3 MBNate Silver - Editor-in-Chief, FiveThirtyEight Andrew Friedman - President of Baseball Operations, LA Dodgers Sue Bird - Athlete, Seattle Storm Daryl Morey - President of Basketball Operations, Philadelphia 76ers Jessica Gelman - CEO, Kraft Analytics Group 15 years ago, the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference was launched and massively accelerated the phenomenon of sports analytics. As we look ahead 15 years, this panel of analytics leaders and luminaries will make bold...
To Play or Not To Play: Rich Eisen 1-on-1 with J.J. Watt
August 30, 2021 18:00 - 47 minutes - 86.4 MBJJ Watt - Defensive End, Arizona Cardinals Rich Eisen - TV Host, NFL Network J.J. Watt is the 3-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year and a 5-time First-team All-Pro selection. His journey is not without its trials and tribulations. J.J. has battled back from multiple injuries and surgeries. In 2016, J.J.’s season ended after rushing back from a herniated disc injury. In 2019, after the Texans earned a playoff berth, J.J. once again rushed back to play, waiting only half of the recom...
Leading Through Change: Diversity in Analytics and Beyond Presented by Wasserman
August 30, 2021 18:00 - 50 minutes - 93.2 MBJason Wright - President, Washington Football Team Amy Howe - President, FanDuel Group Rob King - Senior Vice President and Editor-At-Large, ESPN Lindsay Kagawa-Colas - Executive Vice President Talent and the Collective, Wasserman Shira Springer - Journalist, Sports Business Journal and Lecturer, Boston University The year 2020 presented a number of challenges for business to overcome, with sports and live event industries facing crises head on. The issues leaders are wor...
The Invisible Opponent: Our Mental Health Crisis
August 30, 2021 18:00 - 48 minutes - 89.4 MBTJ Manotoc - North American News Bureau Chief, ABS-CBN Shane Battier - Vice President Basketball Development & Analytics, Miami Heat Kevin Warren - Commissioner, Big Ten Conference Corbin Petro (moderator) - CEO, Eleanor Health The data doesn't lie, we have a major problem: one in five Americans has a mental health illness and over 50,000 US deaths each year are attributable to suicide. The sports community is especially vulnerable with 35% of elite athletes experiencing a me...
Fact or Fiction: Basketball Mythbusting
August 30, 2021 18:00 - 47 minutes - 87.3 MBSonia Raman - Assistant Coach, Memphis Grizzlies Elton Brand - General Manager, Philadelphia 76ers Mike Zarren - VP of Basketball Ops and Team Counsel, Boston Celtics Kirk Goldsberry (moderator) - NBA Analyst, ESPN Everyone loves a highlight, and NBA players and fans are no exception. With the rise of social media platforms, athletes openly share their amazement about others’ moves or shots. But, do the experts believe these moves are true game-changers? Listen in on our pane...
The Case for Activism: Sports Impact on Society Presented by Wasserman
August 30, 2021 18:00 - 51 minutes - 93.5 MBSue Bird - Athlete, Seattle Storm Stephen A. Smith - Sports Radio Host, Television Analyst, and Journalist, ESPN Jessica Gelman (moderator) - CEO, Kraft Analytics Group From Walkouts to Masks with Names to Influencing Elections -- 2020 will be remembered as an awakening for just how significantly sports influences society. Athletes, leagues, teams and media embraced their collective voice in raising awareness and combating social issues to drive societal change and raise awarenes...
Sports & Analytics Trivia Blitz with Ken Jennings
July 19, 2020 15:28 - 49 minutes - 90 MBJoe Peta – Head of Performance Analytics, Point72 Aaron Schatz – Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Football Outsiders Daryl Morey – General Manager, Houston Rockets Ken Jennings (Moderator) – Author & Game Show Contestant The Sloan Sports Analytics Conference is proud to present Sports & Analytics Trivia Blitz, an hour-long sports trivia game played in the style of ‘Jeopardy!’ Hosted by the recently-crowned “Greatest of All Time” Jeopardy! player, Ken Jennings, Trivia Blitz will bri...
Game (Show) Theory: An Omnibus Conversation with Jeopardy GOAT Ken Jennings
July 19, 2020 15:27 - 56 minutes - 103 MBKen Jennings – Author & Game Show Contestant Nate Silver (Moderator) – Editor-in-Chef, FiveThirtyEight Hot off his crowning as the greatest Jeopardy player of all time, Ken Jennings sits down with statistics guru and fellow author Nate Silver to discuss podcasts, comedy, maps, and how analytics has made arenas like game shows and politics a numbers game. What is “the next field to be transformed by analytics”? Tune in to hear the clue.
Dark Arts: What the Sports World Can Learn from Chess
July 19, 2020 15:26 - 1 hour - 122 MBNeil Paine – Senior Sportswriter, FiveThirtyEight Robert Hess – Chess Grandmaster, Coach, Commentator & Writer John Urschel – Mathematician & Former NFL Player Daryl Morey – General Manager, Houston Rockets Danny Rensch (Moderator) – Chief Chess Officer, Chess.com What happens in Chess will eventually happen in all sports. Chess was the first sport to incorporate a theoretically sound rating system, Elo, that has been the foundation of most rating systems in other sports ...
The Sports Learning Curve: Why Teams are Slow to Learn and Adapt
July 12, 2020 20:40 - 57 minutes - 105 MBDaryl Morey – General Manager, Houston Rockets Bill James – Statistician Sashi Brown – Chief Planning & Operations Officer, Monumental Sports & Entertainment Dick Thaler (Moderator) – Nobel Prize Winning Economist, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business Let’s face it, despite decades of data and statistical analysis to lean on, players, coaches and GMs alike continue to fall into predictable behavioral traps when it comes to decision making – whether it’s wasting ti...
Changing Sports: Beyond Ownership
July 12, 2020 20:37 - 54 minutes - 99.9 MBMitch Lasky – Co-Owner, LAFC Scott O'Neil – CEO, Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment Wyc Grousbeck – Lead Owner and Governor, Boston Celtics Warren Zola (Moderator) – Executive Director, Boston College Chief Executives Club While wins and losses are paramount, learn how owners and team leaders of some of sports’ most beloved teams – Boston Celtics, Philadelphia 76ers, and the emerging celeb-favorite Los Angeles FC – are extending their sports property investments in creativ...
Investing with the Bulls: Wall Street Analytics in Sports
July 12, 2020 20:35 - 55 minutes - 102 MBSteve Pagliuca – Co-Chair/Managing General Partner, Bain Capital Josh Harris – Owner, Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment Eric Chemi (Moderator) – Sports Business Reporter, CNBC Not only has the popularity of sports investing increased in recent years, but the value of sports franchises has grown by 3-5x in the past decade. Learn how industry leaders, Josh Harris, Co-Founder of Apollo Global Management, and Steve Pagliuca, Co-Chairman of Bain Capital, successfully turned their ...