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March Methods Madness at the 2020 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

March Methods Madness at the 2020 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

Since introducing the Research Paper Competition in 2010, the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference has become one of the biggest stages for statistical research in sport. In this post, I review the methods used by the finalists and reflect on what this could suggest about current trends in statistical analysis in the sports industry.