AUEB SPORTS ANALYTICS WORKSHOP 2018

AUEB SPORTS ANALYTICS WORKSHOP 2018
The research group AUEB Sports Analytics Group of the Computational and Bayesian Statistics Lab, Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business was founded with aim to implement high level quantitative analysis in Sports both in academic and professional level.
The AUEB Sports Analytics group announces the 3rd Sports Analytics Workshop (SAW 2018) in 26 & 27 of November 2018 in the amphitheater of Antoniadou wing at Athens University of Economics and Business.  
Invited speakers for this year:  

• Paola Zuccolotto, University of Brescia, ITA (Basketball Data Science)
  
• Leonardo Egidi ,University of Trieste, ΙΤΑ (Hierarchical Models in Football)
  
• Stefan Kesenne, Emeritus Prof. of Sport Economics at the University of Antwerp and University of Leuven
  
  
  
  • Competitive imbalance, transfer market and youth training
    
  • Free-entry football market and the number of professional teams.
    
  
  
• Ioannis Papadopoulos , Fanbeat, FRA (Creating value from data generated by football fans using a mobile app)
  

Keynote talks will be also given by the AUEB group & external contributors:
 Dimitris Karlis, AUEB, GRE (In Game Performance)
 Ioannis Ntzoufras, AUEB, GRE (Football Analytics)
 Panos Repoussis, AUEB, GRE (Sports Scheduling)
 Eugenia Tsoumaka, American College of Greece, GRE (Marketing of Celebrity Athletes)
 Manisera Marica, University of Brescia, ITA (High Pressure Performance Big-Data Analytics)


Special session with talks on the implementation in sports and specific case studies will be also presented by
 Vasilios Manasis, Ph.D., Research Associate, AUEB (Competitive Balance in Football)
 Sotirios Drikos, Ph.D., ex Head Coach of the Volleyball  Greek National Team (Volleyball Performance Analysis)


Keynote Talks:
*** Basketball Data Science
***  Bayesian hierarchical models for predicting individual performance in soccer
*** An overview of Football Analytics
*** Free-entry football market and the number of professional teams.
*** Competitive imbalance, transfer market and youth training.

We also announce the short course on Sports Economics which will offered by Professor Καθηγητή Stefan Kesenne, worldwide expert in the field. Professor Kesenne will introduce the basic ideas and foundations in the field and will also discuss the recent advances in the Economics of Sports.
 Details about the short course are available here:
https://aueb-analytics.wixsite.com/saw2018/short-course-sport-economics .

For both events: Early registration deadline until 11 November 2018
A limited amount of contributed talks will be accepted until the same date (11 November 2018).

Registration at https://aueb-analytics.wixsite.com/saw2018/registration
Web-page:   https://aueb-analytics.wixsite.com/saw2018
FB-page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1063725367062676/
FB event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1970558816365408/

The schedule of the Short Course on Sport Economics 2018 is now finalized

Session 1 - The Football Market
15.00-18.00 Wednesday 21/11/2018 (AUEB Postgraduate Building, Room 601)

Session 2 - The Player Labour Market in Professional Team Sports
15.00-18.00 Thursday 22/11/2018 (AUEB Postgraduate Building, Room 802)

Session 3 - League Policy
15.00-18.00 Friday 23/11/2018 (AUEB Postgraduate Building, Room 601)

The address of the AUEB postgraduate building is Evelpidon 47A and, Lefkados 33, Athina 113 62

The Program of the AUEB Sports Analytics Workshop 2018 is now at  https://aueb-analytics.wixsite.com/saw2018