Day One
Friday, April 24, 2026
12:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET
12:00 PM
Opening Remarks — Organizing Committee
12:05 PM
Mike Lopez Keynote
Statistics Behind the Shield: How the NFL League Office Uses Data to Better Understand the Game of Football
1:00 PM
Steven Golovkine Basketball
Is Stephen Curry really a guard? A new perspective on NBA player typologies using functional data analysis
1:20 PM
Marlin Myrte Basketball
From Means to Extremes: A New Way to Model Basketball Player Roles
1:40 PM
Shaam Madhvani Basketball
Multivariate Aging Curves for Professional Basketball Players
2:00 PM
Kendall Thomas Soccer
Movement Dynamics in Elite Female Soccer Athletes: The Quantile Cube Approach
2:20 PM
Theo Au-Yeung Baseball
Arsenal+: Quantifying the Effects of Pitch Arsenal Diversity
2:40 PM
Tahmeed Tureen Soccer
Rise to the Rhythm: Modeling Player Tempo Control in Football (Soccer) using Bayesian Hierarchical Regression on spatio-temporal broadcast tracking and event data
3:00 PM
Social Breakouts
3:50 PM
Alexander Williams Football
Stop Averaging Probabilities: De-biasing EPA and WPA in the NFL
4:10 PM
Brook T. Russell Football
Going to the Extremes: An Academic Data Scientist's Collaboration with an NCAA Football Strength and Conditioning Coach to Characterize Elite-Level NFL Player Speed and Athleticism
4:30 PM
Barnabas Valko Football
Primary Defender Break Score: Quantifying Post-Throw Defensive Reaction in the NFL
4:50 PM
Raymond Carpenter Football
Transfer Vulnerability Score (TVS): Predicting College Football Transfer Portal Entries
5:10 PM
Jackson Barth Baseball
Umpire Rectangular Zones: An Interpretable Parametric Model for Strike-call Decisions
5:30 PM
Tom Kim Baseball
The Intent to Give it Your All: Measuring the Players' Effort in the Game
6:00 PM
Kerrie Mengersen Keynote
It will be a Data Olympics and Paralympics: Australia's green and gold runway to 2032
Day Two
Saturday, April 25, 2026
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET
10:00 AM
Rebecca Nugent Keynote
The CMSACenter Journey: Building Academic Sports Analytics Initiatives
11:00 AM
Omkar Walunj Cricket
The Unseen Game: Quantifying Hidden Value in T20 Cricket Using a Novel Metric that Blends Match Context, Venue-wise Performance, and Role-Based Volatility
11:20 AM
A.K.D.K. Chathurangi Cricket
A Joint Beta Mixed-Effects Model for Ranking Cricket Batters and Teams in Limited-Overs Cricket
11:40 AM
Kyle Davis Football
Conference Realignments' Effects on the Distribution of Elite Recruits in College Football
12:00 PM
Tom Henehan Football
NFL Draft Prediction: A Three-Pronged Fusion MLP Approach
12:20 PM
Elliott Kervin Hockey
Optimus Reim: A Causal Transformer Framework for Double-Entry Expected Threat (xT) and Contextual Player Valuation in Ice Hockey
12:40 PM
Beckett Ehrlich Curling
Chess on Ice: Analyzing the Power Play in Mixed Doubles Curling
1:00 PM
Social Breakout
2:00 PM
Gordan Tao Football
GHOST: A Novel Deep Learning Framework for Quantifying NFL Receiver Gravity
2:20 PM
Jackson P. Lautier Basketball
Injury Risk Management in the National Basketball Association: An Actuarial Approach
2:40 PM
Jiayao Qi Basketball
From Narratives to Performance: Quantifying Media Influence on Rising Professional Athletes
3:00 PM
Charles South Basketball
A Semi-Parametric Two-Stage Bayesian Hierarchical Model for NBA Player Performance
3:20 PM
Joshua Davila Basketball
Game-by-Game: A new look into evaluating consistency in the National Basketball Association (NBA)
3:40 PM
Closing Remarks — Organizing Committee