I came across a
great article today (via
Simply Statistics) describing the largest sports analytics (i.e. statistics) conference in the world, held at MIT. A few points that I found most interesting:
- The guy that they highlight (Kirk Goldsberry) created the plot of the week last week.
- They mentioned that they had a panel on tennis analytics for the first time this year, including Pete Sampras and Roger Federer's coach Paul Annacone and former player Todd Martin. Two great quotes:
On why tennis analytics is lacking: "There's no shared service," says Martin. "This isn't a team sport with a $500,000 budget for analytics."
"[Analytics] should be a strength of our game. Tennis is a game of patterns." - Craig O'Shannessy
This conference could be worth a vacation next year. Might depend on whether I have one or two great blog posts to report on.
No comments:
Post a Comment