Schedule

8am – Registration Opens, Continental Breakfast available

9am – Welcome

9:10am – “Modeling Baseball Player Ability with a Nested Dirichlet Distribution”

By Brad Null

10am – “Optimizing Football Game Play Calling”

By Jeremy Jordan

10:50am – “Importance of Teammate Fit: Frescoball Example”

By Dean Oliver

11:40am – Lunch

1pm – Panel Discussion: Sports Statistics for Fans and Managers

Discussants: Mike Pesca, Aaron Schatz, Sam Hinkie
& Gilbert Fellingham

2pm – Poster Session and afternoon refreshments

3pm – “Quantifying NFL Coaching: A Proof of New Growth Theory”

By Kevin Braig

3:45pm – “Do Pitchers Mix Their Pitches Optimally?”

By Jesse Weinstein-Gould

4:30pm – “Using Simulation to Estimate the Impact of Base running Ability

in Baseball”
By Ben Baumer

5:15pm – Concluding Remarks

For further information on each presentation, see the presentation descriptions.