Past Meetings

2007 NESSIS

Program

• Full conference program

Selected presentations and posters

• "How much of the NBA home court advantage is explained by rest?"
  Oliver Entine and Dylan Small, The Wharton School
• "Statistical models for the evaluation of fielding in baseball"
  Shane T. Jensen, The Wharton School
• "Rating the ratings: A comparison of methods for ranking college ice hockey teams"
  Robin Lock and Julia Palmateer, St. Lawrence University
• "The Tennis Formula: How it can be used in professional tennis"
  A. James O'Malley, Harvard Medical School
• "The passing premium puzzle reconsidered"
  Duane W. Rockerbie, University of Lethbridge
• "The pot calling the kettle black: Are NBA statistical models more irrational than 'irrational' decision-makers?
  Dan T. Rosenbaum, Cleveland Cavaliers and UNC at Greensboro
• "A Markov model for basketball"
  Kenny Shirley, The Wharton School
• "On probabilistic excitement of sports games"
  Jan Vecer, Columbia University
• "A simple and flexible rating method for predicting success in the NCAA basketball tournament"
  Brady West, University of Michigan
• "Estimating situational effects on OPS"
  Phil Yates, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Pictures

Photographs from the 2007 NESSIS

Selected videos

• Talk by Alan Schwarz
• Talk by A. James O`Malley
• Talk by Dan Rosenbaum
• Talk by Shane Jensen
• Talk by Ben Baumer
• Talk by Jan Vecer
• Panel discussion

Sponsors

We kindly thank the following organizations for their support of the 2007 NESSIS:

• Boston Chapter of the ASA
• Harvard Statistics Department
• ASA Section on Statistics in Sports
• INFORMS Section on OR in Sports