SSAC
163 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe official podcast channel of the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
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Breaking Away from the Pack: Sports Entrepreneurship
August 06, 2019 15:22 - 1 hour - 117 MBGeorge Postolos – President & CEO, The Postolos Group Kevin LaForce – Senior Vice President, Media Strategy & Business Development, NFL Cole Gahagan – Chief Commercial Office, Fanatics Patrick Keane – CEO, The Action Network Jennifer Van Dijk – Executive Vice President, Marketing, Wasserman Saj Cherian (Moderator) – Partner, Kynetic The sports industry has experienced tremendous growth over the last ten years—but the growth hasn’t come from a single source. New companies, industries...
Baseball 2.0: Updating America’s Pastime
August 06, 2019 15:21 - 1 hour - 114 MBAriel Kelman – Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Amazon Web Services Frank Marcos – Product Manager, Scouting Technology, LBi Dynasty Chris Young – Vice President, On-Field Operations, Initiative & Strategy, MLB Joe Posnanski – National Columnist, The Athletic Ben Lindbergh (Moderator) – Writer, The Ringer Baseball has been a constant through the years with limited innovation while the world of sports shifts around it. Many MLB teams led the analytics movement at the beginning, ...
Wild West of Analytics: Other Industry Perspectives on Use & Misuse of Data
August 06, 2019 15:20 - 56 minutes - 104 MBNate Silver – Statistician, Author, and Founder, FiveThirtyEight Gov. Charlie Baker – Governor, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Anne Milgram – Professor of Practice & Distinguished Scholar in Resident, NYU School of Law Corbin Petro (Moderator) – CEO & Co-Founder, Eleanor Health Data use and misuse has emerged as an area of focus as organizations collect and use data in new and innovative ways, ahead of regulatory and ethical frameworks. The emergence of data use in decision-making has ...
Who Says No? A 1-on-1 with Adam Silver and Bill Simmons
August 06, 2019 15:17 - 1 hour - 121 MBAdam Silver – Commissioner, NBA Bill Simmons – Founder & CEO , The Ringer Nearing the end of the regular season, Bill Simmons sits one-on-one with commissioner Adam Silver to discuss various basketball – and, in typical Bill fashion, a couple non-basketball – related topics. As Silver enters his sixth year as commissioner, he reflects back on his tenure, discusses the current NBA landscape, and talks about the future of the league. Among other topics they will address tampering in the N...
The Cutting Edge: Hockey Analytics (Presented by Sportlogiq)
August 06, 2019 15:16 - 57 minutes - 105 MBSunny Mehta – Former NHL Executive Christopher Boucher – VP Sports Development, Analytics & Hockey Operations, Sportlogiq Bill Zito – Associate General Manager, Columbus Blue Jackets Meghan Duggan – Forward, US Women’s National Hockey Team Tyler Dellow (Moderator) – NHL Columnist, The Athletic The Hockey ecosystem is in the midst of widespread change. The analytics revolution is taking hold as an increasing number of teams lean on analytics to support important decision making. But, ...
Changing the Game: How Advanced Data is Enhancing Broadcasts (Presented by ESPN)
August 06, 2019 15:15 - 57 minutes - 105 MBJason Benetti – College Play-by-Play Announcer, ESPN Mike Petriello – Stats Analyst, MLB Advanced Media Doug White – Senior Director, Programming & Acquisitions, ESPN Ariel Kelman – Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Amazon Web Services Seth Walder (Moderator) – Sports Analytics Writer, ESPN Recent years have seen an uptick in the use of advanced data and analytics to enhance game broadcasts and drive second-screen platforms, creating differentiating viewing experiences for sport...
Creating a Sports Legacy
August 06, 2019 15:14 - 55 minutes - 102 MBJosh Harris – Owner, Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment Jonathan Kraft – President, The Kraft Group Casey Wasserman – Chairman & CEO, Wasserman Jackie MacMullan (Moderator) – Senior Writer, ESPN Legacies are built when there is a vision for establishing something novel and long-lasting. Today’s industry game changers are learning from multiple avenues to have impact internationally, technologically, and through using data to gain a long-lasting competitive advantage in the front of...
What Does the Fox Say? Analytics in Poker
August 06, 2019 15:13 - 58 minutes - 107 MBScott Blumstein – Poker Player Sunny Mehta – Former NHL Executive Bill Chen – Quantitative Researcher, Jagger Analytics Maria Konnikova – Author, Journalist, and Ambassador, PokerStars Team Pro Nate Silver – Statistician, Author, and Founder, FiveThirtyEight Given the massive set of possible decision points – 10^14 in Limit Hold ‘em and 10^160 in No-limit Hold ‘em – poker lends itself naturally to the implementation of analytics. Moreover, the rise of analytics’ prominence in poker h...
Winning Outside the Game in the Business of Sports
August 06, 2019 15:13 - 1 hour - 121 MBJohn Collins – CEO, On Location Experiences Jimmy Pitaro – President, ESPN Michelle Wilson – President, WWE Scott O’Neil – CEO, Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment Jessica Gelman (Moderator) – CEO, Kraft Analytics Group The sports industry is changing every day: questions around media rights are more pertinent than ever, consumer interests and desired engagement are evolving quickly, the ticketing industry is undergoing a massive shift, and start-up leagues and technologies are cha...
An American Analyst in London
August 06, 2019 15:09 - 1 hour - 115 MBTed Knutson – Owner and Founder, StatsBomb Daryl Morey – General Manager, Houston Rockets Roger Bennett (Moderator) – Host, Men in Blazers Soccer, the sport with the largest global fan base, has largely resisted the analytics wave. Despite recent improvements, the game has failed to undergo a major gameplay revolution like basketball, baseball, and football. Daryl Morey questions some of the fundamental assumptions and decision-making in soccer analysis. Roger Bennett of Men in Blazers...
Ticketing Analytics: The Power of Open Distribution
August 06, 2019 15:08 - 55 minutes - 103 MBPatrick Ryan – Co-Founder, Eventellect Brendan Lynch – Enterprise Commercial & Ticketmaster Agency Lead, Ticketmaster Bobby Gallo – Vice President of Club Business Development, NFL Gretchen Sheirr – Chief Revenue Officer, Houston Rockets Abe Madkour (Moderator) – Publisher, SportsBusiness Journal Ticketing is the next frontier of major growth in the sports business. As leagues and teams begin to trend toward a more open ticketing environment, they will be able to leverage multiple di...
Helping Dream Chasers: Social Justice with Meek Mill and Michael Rubin
August 06, 2019 15:07 - 51 minutes - 94.1 MBMeek Mill – Hip Hop Artist Michael Rubin – Founder & Executive Chairman, Fanatics Rachel Nichols (Moderator) – Reporter, ESPN Having been directly impacted by unfairly harsh laws and unexpectedly becoming a voice for criminal justice reform, Philadelphia-raised rapper Meek Mill shares his unique perspective and partnership with close friend and co-owner of the Philadelphia 76ers Michael Rubin to bring greater awareness to this issue impacting millions without a voice in the US. Togethe...
The Performance/Precaution Tradeoff: Player Health
August 06, 2019 15:05 - 58 minutes - 107 MBJohn DiFiori – Director of Sports Medicine, NBA Casey Smith – Head Athletic Trainer, Dallas Mavericks Adir Shiffman – Executive Chairman, Catapult Gretchen Reynolds (Moderator) – “Phys Ed” Columnist, The New York Times The days of rubbing dirt on an injury and returning to the game are over. Fans watch games to see their favorite athletes and teams perform at a high level, and so the processes and technologies in place to maintain player health are paramount to the quality of the prod...