On December 13 and 14 2022, the Sport Cluster of the Department of Economics at the University of Reading will host the 2nd Reading Football Economics Workshop. Topics include work that uses football (however liberally defined), and has some economic content or motivation (again, the definition will be liberal). We are very pleased that Christina […]

The 2022 Cascadia Symposium on Statistics in Sports is a meeting of statisticians and quantitative analysts connected with sports teams, sports media, and universities to discuss common problems of interest in statistical modeling and analysis of sports data. The symposium format is a mixture of invited talks, a poster session, and a panel discussion. The meeting will be […]

The 13th World Congress of Performance Analysis of Sport (WCPAS2022) and the 13th International Symposium on Computer Science in Sport (IACSS2022) will be held from September 10th – 13th. After 2 years of restrictions in gatherings, imposed by the pandemic, the organizing committee is happy to prepare the event to be held in presence at […]

MathSport International 2022 will take place at the University of Reading (UK) on July 11 -13, 2022. It will be an in-person meeting (unless pandemic conditions at the time force us to switch to another format). It will be the 9th conference in Europe that brings together Maths and Sport. Previous conferences have been organised […]

The EURO working group “OR in Sports” will be organizing a stream on OR in Sports, as part of the EURO Conference, July 3-6 2022 in Espoo, Finland (more information about the conference can be found at https://euro2022espoo.com/).  We are aiming for a sports track covering various applications and methodologies (e.g. optimization, statistics, analytics, …), […]

The Sports Analytics Group of the Department of Statistics of Athens University of Economics & Business (AUEB) announces the 6th AUEB Sports Analytics Workshop (AUEB SAW2022) ​which will be  hosted in a hybrid form (virtual and live) AUEB, Athens (Greece) on the evenings of Thursday 26th and Friday 27th of May 2022 (15.00-21.30 Greek time, […]

University of Reading, and Paderborn University are organizing a conference on the economics and finance of football. It is aimed to highlight high quality research of the football industry as well as to facilitate the cooperation between academics and practitioners. The organizers invite researchers to submit extended abstracts for presentation. Theoretical and empirical research papers that cover the […]

When? November 17, 2021 9:00 am Washington DC/ 3:00 pm Rome /12:00 am (Nov 18) Melbourne Hosts: Michael Trick (IFORS Past-President) Frits Spieksma (Incoming IFORS Vice-President) Register for this free webinar on the IFORS website: www.ifors.org Invited Speakers: Elizabeth Wanless (Ohio University) Dmitry Dagaev (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) Stephanie Kovalchik (ISEAL and Tennis Australia) […]

The 2021 New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports is a meeting of statisticians and quantitative analysts connected with sports teams, sports media, and universities to discuss common problems of interest in statistical modeling and analysis of sports data. The symposium format for 2021 will be a series of online talks during the month of October, 2021. The […]

The past decade has seen a tremendous growth of interest in sports analytics, not only from an economic and commercial perspective, but also from a purely scientific one. In fact, there has been a growing number of papers published at top artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning venues that revolve around problems in sports, as […]