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2015 NESSIS Program:

• Full conference program

Selected presentations from the 2015 NESSIS

• "Football under pressure: Assessing malfeasance in Deflategate"
  Stan A. Veuger, American Enterprise Institute


• "NBA court realty" (within a browser, open the "court_realty.html" file in the main folder)
  Dan Cervone, New York University


• "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


• "A comparison of sporting heroes: Bayesian modeling of test match cricketers"
  Pete Philipson, Northumbria University


• "Nearest-neighbor matchup effects: Predicting March Madness"
  Andrew Hoegh, Virginia Tech


• "A stochastic rank ordered logit model for rating multi-competitor games and sports"
  Mark E. Glickman, Boston University


• "A Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate the framing ability of major league baseball catchers"
  Sameer Deshpande, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania


• "Contextualized goals in soccer"
  Frank Silva, University of North Carolina


• "Triangle partitioning and linear optimization of forward lines"
  Chris Kang, University of Washington


• "Competition from other sports hurts TV ratings: How to shift league calendars to optimize viewership"
  Jim Pagels, Columbia University


• "The automated general manager"
  Philip Maymin, Vantage Sports and University of Bridgeport


• "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 from the 2015 NESSIS

• Photographs from the 2015 NESSIS

Selected videos from the 2015 NESSIS

• Introductory remarks by Mark Glickman and Scott Evans
  
• Talk by Stan Veuger
  
• Talk by Carl Morris
  
• Talk by Dan Cervone
  
• Talk by Jeremias Engelmann
  
• Talk by Sam Robertson
  
• Talk by Julien Guyon
  
• Talk by Pete Philipson
  
• Talk by Michael Lopez
  
• Talk by Andrew Hoegh
  
• Talk by Mark Glickman
  
• Talk by Sameer Deshpande
  
• Talk by Justin Manjourides
  
• Talk by Stephanie Kovalchik
  
• Talk by Frank Silva
  
• Talk by Shinwoo Kang
  
• Talk by Steven Mintz
  
• Panel Discussion
  

Sponsors

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

	Boston Chapter of the ASA
	Harvard Statistics Department
	ASA Section on Statistics in Sports
	De Gruyter
	DataRobot
	ESPN Stats & Info
	IOS Press
	National Basketball Association

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