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2011 NESSIS

Program

  • Full conference program

Selected presentations

  • "A framework for tactical analysis and individual off ensive production assessment in soccer using Markov chains"
    Sarah Rudd, On Football Research and Consulting
  • "Ratings Central: Accurate, automated, Bayesian table tennis ratings for clubs, leagues, tournaments and organizations"
    David J. Marcus, Ratings Central
  • RUSH: Ratings using score histories
    Todd L. Graves, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Seed distributions for NCAA men's basketball tournament: Why it may not matter who plays whom
    Sheldon H. Jacobson, University of Illinois

Pictures

Photographs from the 2011 NESSIS

Selected videos

  • Talk by Andrew Thomas and Sam Ventura
  • Talk by Sarah Rudd
  • Talk by David Marcus
  • Talk by Todd Graves
  • Talk by J.P. Ricciardi
  • Talk by Sheldon Jacobson
  • Panel Discussion

Sponsors

We kindly thank the following organizations for their support of the 2011 NESSIS:

Boston Chapter of the ASA Harvard Statistics Department ASA Section on Statistics in Sports StatDNA SmartOdds ESPN Salford Systems Sports Data Hub

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What's New

  • The 2025 NESSIS took place on September 27, 2025.
  • Abstract submission for the 2025 NESSIS closed on July 15, 2025.
  • Advance registration for the 2025 NESSIS has closed.
  • See you at the next NESSIS in 2027!

New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports — co-chaired by Mark Glickman and Scott Evans.

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