Agenda

2025-04-22 · 2 min read

Events will occur at or near the Iowa State University Alumni Center

Digital Program is available here

Day 1 - June 4

TimeEventSpeakerTitle
8:00Breakfast
8:45Opening RemarksJamie Pollard
9:00Session IDenise BradfordIntegrating Athlete Signals, Schedule Density, and Rookie Development within a Predictive Inference Framework
9:30Mark BroadieRanking Systems for Golf and Other Sports
10:00Nathan SandholtzAn Experiment to Investigate the Spatial Component of Serving Strategy in Tennis
10:30Break
11:00KeynoteLuke BornnFrom Pixels to Points: Predicting Performance in Professional Sports
12:00Lunch
1:15Session IIKaterina WuWhich League is Best? Using Paired Comparison Models to Estimate Hockey League Strength and Project Player Performance
1:45Michael SchuckersEstimating Player Age Curves Using Regression and Imputation
2:15Namita NandakumarTwitter Is Real Life? Translating Student Research To Team Decision-Making
3:00Jack Trice Stadium Tour
4:00Poster Session and Appetizers

Day 2 - June 5

TimeEventSpeakerTitle
8:00Breakfast
9:00Session IIISuraj BhuvaMedal Projections and Performance Benchmarks in Olympic Sports
9:30Monnie McGeeLayered Dirichlet Modeling to Assess the Changing Contributions of MLB Players as they Age
10:00Jim AlbertPrediction in Baseball – Understanding Streaky Hitting and the Increase in Home Run Hitting
10:30Break
11:00KeynoteSara ZieglerStats for Normies: How to Explain Predictive Inference in Sports to an Innumerate Public (or Even Just Your Boss)
12:00Lunch
1:15Session IVSameer DeshpandeExpected Hypothetical Completion Probability
1:45Ron YurkoNFL Ghosts: A Framework for Evaluating Defender Positioning with Conditional Density Estimation
2:15Quang NguyenStep-and-Turn Modeling of Individual Player Movement in American Football
2:45Closing