Past Meetings

2015 NESSIS

Program

• Full conference program

Selected presentations

• “Football under pressure: Assessing malfeasance in Deflategate”
  Stan A. Veuger, American Enterprise Institute
• “A method to assess the influence of individual player performance distribution on match outcome in team sports”
  Sam Robertson, Victoria University and Western Bulldogs Football Club
• “Rethinking the FIFA World Cup final draw”
  Julien Guyon, Bloomberg L.P. and Columbia University
• “Nearest-neighbor matchup effects: Predicting March Madness”
  Andrew Hoegh, Virginia Tech
• “A Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate the framing ability of major league baseball catchers”
  Sameer Deshpande, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
• “Triangle partitioning and linear optimization of forward lines”
  Chris Kang, University of Washington
• “Sampling from the 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 possible brackets in the NCAA men's basketball tournament using the power model”
  Sheldon Jacobson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• “Survivor functions, hazard functions, and median lifetimes for olympic sponsorships”
  Jonathan Jensen, Merrimack College
• “A logistic regression approach to predicting who will make the NBA playoffs”
  Ryan Elmore, University of Denver
• “Data mining Major League Baseball's pace of play problem”
  Aaron Crowley, State University of New York at Buffalo
• “Assist quality: Measuring the true value of basketball assists”
  Alexander Lee, University of Toronto
• “Functional data approach to longitudinal modeling in the National Hockey League”
  Matthew Valente, Arizona State University
• “Is the price right? An analysis of the National Football League ticket market relative to the Great Recession”
  Benjamin Singer, Yale School of Management

Pictures

Photographs from the 2015 NESSIS

Selected videos

• Talk by Stan Veuger
• Talk by Jeremias Engelmann
• Talk by Sam Robertson
• Talk by Julien Guyon
• Talk by Andrew Hoegh
• Talk by Sameer Deshpande
• Talk by Shinwoo Kang
• Panel Discussion

Sponsors

We kindly thank the following organizations for their support of the 2015 NESSIS: