Monday, April 26, 2021
(Central Daylight Time U.S. and Canada)
9:00 – 9:15 am University Welcome and Opening Remarks
SESSION CHAIR: Katherine Ensor, Noah G. Harding Professor of Statistics and Director, CoFES
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- Reginald DesRoches, Howard R. Hughes Provost, Professor, Civil & Environmental and Mechanical Engineering
- Rudy Guerra, Professor and Chair, Department of Statistics
- Clark Haptonstall, Program Director and Chair, Department of Sport Management
9:15 – 9:45 AM Keynote Lecture
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- Ed Feng, Founder of The Power Rank
How to Make Sports Predictions Based on Data
9:45 – 10:30 am Session I, Panel Discussion
MODERATOR: Clark Haptonstall, Program Director and Chair, Department of Sport Management, Rice University
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- Jerry Bo, Professional Sports Gambler and Radio Host on Houston’s ESPN 97.5
- Declan Hill, Associate Professor, University of New Haven
- Ed Feng, Founder of The Power Rank
- Tony Miller, Executive Director of Race & Sports, Golden Nugget Las Vegas
10:30 – 10:45 AM Break
10:45 AM-12:00 pM Session II, 30 min lectures with 5 min Q&A
SESSION CHAIR: Clark Haptonstall, Program Director and Chair, Department of Sport Management, Rice University
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- Declan Hill, Associate Professor, University of New Haven; Author of The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime
The Coming Tsunami of Corruption in U.S. Sports
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- Hua Gong, Assistant Professor, Sport Analytics, Rice University
Referee bias in the NBA: Evidence from games during the COVID-19 pandemic
12:00 – 12:30 pm Break
12:30 – 1:45 pm Session III, 30 min lectures with 5 min Q&A
SESSION CHAIR: James Disch, Associate Professor, Sport Management, Rice University
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- Chris Anderson, Professor, European Politics and Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science; Author, The Numbers Game
Playing the Numbers Game: Analytics and Decision Making in Elite Soccer
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- Wayne Winston, Professor Emeritus Operations and Decision Technologies, Indiana University; Author of Mathletics
Sports Gambling: A Tutorial
1:45 – 3:00 pm Session IV, 30 min lectures with 5 min Q&A
SESSION CHAIR: Daniel Kowal, Dobelman Family Assistant Professor, Rice University
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- Ben Jedlovec, Senior Director, Baseball Data Quality, Major League Baseball
Statcast: The Next Generation of Baseball Data
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- Brian Macdonald, Special Faculty in Sports Analytics, Carnegie Mellon University
NBA Real Plus-Minus, Forecasting, and Storytelling in the COVID Era
3:00 – 3:30 Pm cOFES PRIZE IN COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS, closing remarks
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- Katherine Ensor, Noah G. Harding Professor of Statistics and Director, CoFES
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- John Dobelman, Professor in the Practice of Statistics and Associate Director, CoFES