What is “Sloan”? I spent the past couple of days in Boston at the 2017 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (SSAC), an 11-year old conference that has grown from 200 to 3500+ attendees. Organized by Daryl Morey (GM, Houston Rockets) and Jessica Gelman (Kraft Analytics Group) and run by MBA students at the MIT Sloan School of Management. The conference is a mix of panels featuring 3-5 speakers, “Competitive Advantage” sessions put on by organizations who do sports analytics, research paper presentations from academics, workshops/tutorials (e.g. web scraping NFL data with R), and networking opportunities.
A guest post from Notre Dame faculty member, Scott Nestler about his attendance at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.
