OR in Sports

OR in Sports at EURO 2019
2019-06-23 - 2019-06-26 | Dublin, Ireland
The EURO working group “OR in Sports” is organizing a stream on OR in Sports, as part of the EURO Conference, June 23-26 2019 in Dublin, Ireland (more information about the conference can be found at http://euro2019dublin.com/). We are aiming for a sports track covering various applications and methodologies (e.g. optimization, statistics, analytics, …), much like the sessions we had at the previous EURO conferences in Valencia and Poznan.
This is a reminder about our invitation to submit an abstract to the “OR in sports” stream. You can do this by going to the abstract submission page https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro30/ and use the following invitation code: 593497e1.
The deadline for abstract submission is February 8, 2019.

MathSport International 2019
2019-07-01 - 2019-07-03 | Athens, Greece
Mathsport International 2019 is hosted by Athens University of Economics and Business (Greece) and organized by the Department of Statistics from Monday 1st of July to Wednesday 3rd of July 2019. It will be the 7th conference in Europe that brings together Maths and Sport. A social event is foreseen for the evening of Sunday 30th of June.
Important dates
17 February 2019: Abstract submission deadline (extended)
3 March 2019: Notification of acceptance
5 May 2019: Submission of proceedings paper
22 May 2019: Early registration deadline
1-3 July 2019: Conference

XIth Conference of the European Sport Economics Association (ESEA)
2019-08-28 - 2019-08-30 | Gijon, Spain
Researchers are invited to submit a paper for the 11th annual meeting of the European Sport Economics Association. Submissions are welcome relating to any area of sports economics,
and including theoretical, empirical and conceptual papers. Completed research and research in progress are equally admissible but manuscripts already accepted for publication should not
be submitted. The conference language is English.
Please submit an extended abstract: 3 pages (12‐point font) including detailed information on the theoretical background of the study, the methods used and the major findings.
Abstracts which pass the double‐blind review process will be accepted for presentation at the conference. Should the number of papers passing the review process be larger than the number of available slots for presentations, only one abstract per submitting author will be accepted (regardless of whether co‐authors have submitted other papers). The submitting author is expected to present the paper.
Please submit your abstract(s) to the following addresses: placido@uniovi.es or foedplacido@gmail.com

1st Reading Football Economics Workshop
2019-09-19 - 2019-09-21 | Reading, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, United Kingdom
The 1st Reading Football Economics Workshop will take place on 19-21 September 2019 in Reading, and is hosted by the Centre for Institutions and Economic History at the University of Reading. There will be two keynote talks, a number of contributed sessions and informal social events.
We invite submissions from scholars on research related to the area of football economics or management, be it applications to football, or the use of football to inform economics and other topics. Full paper submissions are preferred, but extended abstracts will also be considered.
We particularly encourage submissions from PhD students and postdocs.
Submit full papers or extended abstracts to James Reade at j.j.reade@reading.ac.uk.
Submission Deadline: 21 June. Notification by 12 July.

7th International Conference on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support
2019-09-20 - 2019-09-21 | Vienna, Austria
Most human activities, including sports, are becoming more and more technological. Engineering in general and Information Technology in particular are important in the support for many activities directly or indirectly related to sport sciences, including improvement of physical activities, sports medicine, biotechnology and nutrition, sports management, and all other application areas in sports. This conference intends to be a meeting point for both academics, sport professionals and practitioners to exchange ideas and develop synergies.
icSPORTS is organized in 4 major tracks:
1 – Computer Systems in Sports
2 – Health and Support Technology
3 – Signal Processing in Human Movement
4 – Sport Performance and Support Technology
Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by:
DBLP, Thomson-Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, EI, SCOPUS, Semantic Scholar and Google Scholar.
Conference Chair(s)
Jan Cabri, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Norway
Program Chair(s)
João Vilas-Boas, Faculty of Sport, and Porto Biomechanics Laboratory, University of Porto, Portugal
Pedro Pezarat-Correia, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

2019 New England symposium on Statistics in Sports
2019-09-28 | Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachussets, United States
The 2019 New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports will be a meeting of statisticians, statistical researchers, and quantitative analysts connected with sports teams, sports media, and universities to discuss common problems of interest in statistical modeling and analysis of sports data. The symposium format will be a mixture of invited talks, a poster session, and a panel discussion. Students in particular are encouraged to submit abstracts; a prize will be awarded to the best student poster as decided by a panel of judges.
Registration is now open. Registration information, including fees and methods of payment, can be found at http://www.nessis.org/registration.html
Abstracts for talks and posters are now requested; the submission deadline for abstracts is June 15, 2019.
Decisions for accepting abstracts will be made by June 30, 2019.
Further details of the 2019 NESSIS are forthcoming. Complete up-to-date information will be posted at the 2019 NESSIS web site.
Please contact Mark Glickman (glickman@fas.harvard.edu) or Scott Evans (sevans@bsc.gwu.edu), the co-organizers of the symposium, with any questions.

Short course on Basketball Data Science
2019-11-25 - 2019-11-28 | AUEB, Athens, Greece
Short course on BASKETBALL DATA SCIENCE by Dr. Marica Manisera (University of Brescia) Saw20117
AUEB Sports Analytics Group announces a short course on
BASKETBALL DATA SCIENCE
by Dr. Marica Manisera (University of Brescia)
DAY 1
14.15-17.00 Monday 25/11/2019 (AUEB New Building, Room T102, 1st Floor)
Lecture 1
*** Data science in basketball
*** Basketball analytics: state of the art
*** Basketball data
*** Introduction to the R package BasketballAnalyzeR
DAY 2
14.15-17.00 Tuesday 26/11/2019 (AUEB New Building, Room T102, 1st Floor)
Lecture 2
*** Basic statistical analyses using BasketballAnalyzeR (1/2)
*** Pace, Ratings, Four Factors
*** Graphical representations
*** Variability analysis
*** Inequality analysis
​DAY 3
15.15-18.00 Wednesday 27/11/2019 (AUEB Postgraduate Building, Room 609, 6th Floor)
Lecture 3
*** Basic statistical analyses using BasketballAnalyzeR (2/2)
*** Shot charts
*** Discovering Patterns in data
DAY 3
15.15-18.00 Thursday 28/11/2019 (AUEB Postgraduate Building, Room 901, 9th Floor)
Lecture 4
*** Finding groups in data
*** Assignment of exercises to solve
Bibliography
Paola Zuccolotto and Marica Manisera, Basketball Data Science. With Applications in R. CRC Press, forthcoming.
Marco Sandri, Paola Zuccolotto, and Marica Manisera (2019). BasketballAnalyzeR: an R package for the analysis of basketball
data. https://github.com/sndmrc/BasketballAnalyzeR
Marco Sandri, The R package BasketballAnalyzeR, in: Zuccolotto P. and Manisera M., Basketball Data Science, forthcoming,
Chapter 6.
Marica Manisera, Marco Sandri and Paola Zuccolotto (2019), BasketballAnalyzeR: the R package for basketball
analytics. Proceedings of the Conference Smart Statistics for Smart Applications (SIS 2019), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, 19st-21st June 2019, 395 – 402.
Course Details
The Course will be limited to 40 people. Register here: https://aueb-analytics.wixsite.com/saw2019/registration
​All participants must bring their own laptops fully charged with R and the R package BasketballAnalyzeR already installed.
How to install it: https://bdsports.unibs.it/basketballanalyzer/
For any problem, please write to basketball.analyzer.help@gmail.com

4th AUEB Sports Analytics Workshop
2019-11-25 - 2019-11-26 | AUEB, Athens, Greece
AUEB Sports Analytics Group announces the 4th AUEB Sports Analytics Workshop (AUEB SAW2019)
​which will be hosted at Athens University of Economics and Business (Greece) and it is organized by AUEB Sports Analytics Group, the Computational and Bayesian Statistics Lab and the
the Department of Statistics from Monday 25th of November to Tuesday 26th of November 2019.
The workshop is also accompanied by a short course on BASKETBALL DATA SCIENCE (25-28 November 2019).
Topics include:
*** Mathematical and physical models in sports
*** Performance measures and models
*** Optimisation of sports performance
*** Statistics and probability models
*** Match outcome models
*** Competitive strategy
*** Game theoretical models
*** Optimal tournament design and scheduling,
*** Decision support systems
*** Econometrics in sport
*** Analysis of sporting technologies
*** Computationally intensive methods
*** Financial valuation in sport
Confirmed Speakers
*** Measuring spatial performance in basketball by CART by Marica Manisera, University of Brescia
*** Comparing statistical models and machine learning algorithms in predicting football outcomes by Leonardo Egidi, University of Trieste
*** Do football spectators like or hate dynasties? by Stefan Kesenne, Emeritus Professor, University of Leuven, Belgium
*** Why is the market of professional football not a free-entry market? by Stefan Kesenne, Emeritus Professor, University of Leuven, Belgium
*** A Unified Bayesian Model for Volleyball by Ioannis Ntzoufras, AUEB, Greece
*** When the next goal will occur? A Bayesian Survival Analysis Approach in Football by Ilias Leriou, AUEB, Greece​​
*** Dimitris Karlis, AUEB, Greece​​
*** Panos Repoussis, University of Athens, Greece​​
*** Walter Sebastian Gisler, GotSoccer, USA
*** Christos Marmarinos, University of Athens, Greece​​
*** Vasileios Armatas, University of Athens, Greece​​
*** Sotiris Drikos, AUEB Sports Analytics Group, Greece​​
*** Vasileios Manasis, AUEB Sports Analytics Group, Greece​​
*** Maria Gkouma, Next Mile Ltd, Greece
A very limited number of contributed talks will be accepted until 4 of November 2019. Please send email at ntzoufras@aueb.gr.
Details can be found in the AUEB SAW2019 webpage: https://aueb-analytics.wixsite.com/saw2019, and the
facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/401637693840002/ (Workshop) & https://www.facebook.com/events/547639902660364/(Short Course)
Early registration by 4 of November 2019 at https://aueb-analytics.wixsite.com/saw2019/registration

First AAAI Workshop on A.I. in Team Sports
2020-02-07 - 2020-02-08 | New York, USA
Sports is a domain that has grown significantly over the last 20 years to become a key driver of many economies. According to a recent report (https://urlzs.com/tsvbY), the estimated size of the global sports industry is $1.3 trillion, and has an audience of over 1 billion. As the market has grown so has the amount of data that is collected. This means that there are a number of challenging problems in sports to predict and optimise performance but, so far, such problems have largely been dealt with by domain experts (e.g., coaches, managers, scouts, and sports health experts) with basic analytics.
The growing availability of datasets in sports presents a unique opportunity for the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) communities to develop, validate, and apply new techniques in the real world. In team sports, real-world data is available over long periods of time, about the same individuals and teams, in a variety of environmental contexts, thereby creating a unique live test-bed for AI and ML techniques. While research in AI for team sports has grown over the last 20 years, it is as yet unclear how they relate to each other or build upon each other as they tend to either focus on specific types of team sports or specific prediction and optimisation problems that are but one part of the whole field. Hence, this workshop will help fuel discussions in the area and bring together the AI and sports analytics communities to encourage new research that will benefit both communities and industry.
Topics
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We invite high-quality paper submissions on topics including, but not limited to, the following:
– Match Outcome Prediction.
– Tactical Decision Making, Player Acquisition and Performance Prediction.
– Fantasy Sports Games.
– Injury Prediction and Prevention.
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We are keen to see applications of AI techniques such as:
– Machine Learning and Deep Learning
– Computer Vision
– Optimisation
– Multi-Agent Systems.
– Human-Machine Interaction
Format:
The workshop will be a full-day and will include a mix of invited talk(s) and peer-reviewed papers (talks and poster sessions). It will conclude with a panel discussion.
Submissions
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Two forms of submissions are invited:
– short position papers (2-4 pages) describing initial work or real-world results of applications of AI.
– full technical papers (6-8 pages) describing original research. Note that there will be no formal publications of the workshop proceedings and hence we will accept resubmissions from other venues.
Manuscripts must be submitted as PDF files via EasyChair online submission system: (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aits20).
Please keep your paper format according to AAAI Formatting Instructions (two-column format).
Papers will be peer-reviewed by the Program Committee (2-3 reviewers per paper).

Organising Committee
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Ryan Beal, University of Southampton, UK
Prof. Sarvapali Ramchurn, University of Southampton, UK
Dr. Georgios Chalkiadakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Prof. Onn Shehory, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Prof. Tim Swartz, Simon Fraser University, Canada

5th International Conference on Sport Economics & Sport Management (SESM)
2020-05-28 - 2020-05-29 | Paris, France
On behalf of the organizing committee, we would like to invite you to submit a paper to the
5th International Conference on Sport Economics & Sport Management (SESM)
which will take place @Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne on the 28th/29th of May 2020 in Paris (France). You can find all information via http://sesmberlin.wix.com/smse
a Call for Papers is attached. Please be aware of the submission deadline: December 31st, 2019. We would be delighted to welcome you next year in Paris.
We are looking forward to your decision!

Call for Papers: The conference will provide a platform for exchanging innovative thoughts and creating cooperation between researchers in the fields of sport management and economics. We are inviting proposals for paper presentations as well as complete sessions consisting out of three papers/presenters. This conference provides researchers with an opportunity to present theoretical, empirical, and policy‐oriented research.
Organizing Committee:Prof. Dr. Pierre-Charles Pradier & Prof. Dr. Georg Stadtmann
Program Committee: Wladimir Andreff (Paris) ∙ Eike Emrich (Saarbrücken) ∙ Christian Pierdzioch (Hamburg) ∙ Stefan Szymanski (Michigan) ∙ Christian Dreger (Berlin) ∙ Georg Stadtmann (Frankfurt/Oder) ∙ Tim Pawlowski (Tübingen) ∙ Alexander Ferrauti (Bochum) ∙ Oliver Budzinski (Ilmenau) ∙ Bernd Frick (Paderborn) ∙ Gerd G. Wagner (Berlin) ∙ Markus Kurscheidt (Bayreuth) ∙ Joel G. Maxcy (Phiadelphia)∙ Martin Falk (Vienna) ∙ Martin Kocher (Vienna) ∙ Luc Arrondel (Paris) ∙ Jean‐François Brocard (IASE) ∙ Richard Duhautois (CNAM) ∙ Oskar Kowalewski (Paris)
Deadline for paper submission: Dec. 31st, 2019.

4th Eastern Conference on Football Economics and 6th Western Conference on Football and Finance
2020-07-01 - 2020-07-03 | Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
HSE University, New Economic School (NES), and University of Reading are organizing a conference on the economics and finance of football. It is aimed to highlight high quality research of the football industry as well as to facilitate the cooperation between academics and practitioners.
The organizers invite researchers to submit papers for presentation. Theoretical and empirical research papers that cover the economic, financial, social, and managerial aspects of the football industry are welcome. The list of possible topics includes, but is not limited to: success factors in football, football league regulations, financial fair-play, tournament design, contest theory, optimization of match strategies, corruption, betting, spectators’ demand, financial and social issues of the World Cup, scheduling, and competitive balance.
The deadline for submitting an extended abstract (maximum 3 pages in length) is February 1, 2020. The submission should briefly describe the methodology of research, clearly state the hypotheses and main results, and emphasize contribution to the literature. Notification of acceptance will be sent by March 1, 2020. Extended abstract submission is through EasyChair. Please, click the link or type the following address in your browser: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=footecfin2020
The keynote lecture will be delivered by Stefan Szymanski (University of Michigan). Plenary speakers are Helmut Dietl (University of Zurich), David Forrest (University of Liverpool), and Robert Simmons (Lancaster University).
There is no conference fee.
The author of accepted abstract must submit a full paper by May 1, 2020. The program committee will assign a discussant to each paper by June 1, 2020. Each conference speaker is expected to serve as a discussant for one other paper.
For more information about the conference, please visit the website https://www.footballeconomics.ru/ If you have any questions, please contact Dmitry Dagaev (dagaev@hse.ru).

Asia-Singapore Conference on Sport Science (ACSS 2020)
2020-07-16 - 2020-07-17 | Furama Riverfront, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Asia-Singapore Conference on Sport Science (ACSS 2020), themed “A Multidisciplinary Approach to Enhance Sport Performance”, the two-day Conference will offer participants the opportunity to learn about the latest trends and best practices in the world of Sport Science. Leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars will attend to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Sport Science. We encourage research papers and training approaches based on integrating different disciplines applied in Sport Science to enhance sport performance to be submitted to the conference. Expect presentations on the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns, as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of Sport Science.
Join us for this exciting Conference in Singapore from 16th to 17th July 2020 at the Furama Riverfront Hotel.
Special theme for ACSS: ‘A Multidisciplinary Approach to Enhance Sport Performance’
We welcome all papers on the topic of Sport Science to be presented at ACSS 2020.

5th AUEB Sports Analytics Workshop 2021 (SAW 2021)
2021-05-24 - 2021-05-25 | Athens, Athens, Greece
AUEB Sports Analytics Group organizes an annual conference dedicated to all topics where mathematics and sport meet.
As the Covid-19 pandemic remains threatening, the AUEB Sports Analytics Workshop 2021 (SAW 2021) will be organized virtually by Athens University of Economics and Business, Department of Statistics from Monday 24th of May to Tuesday 25th of May 2021. The workshop is accompanied by a short course on FOOTBALL ANALYTICS by I. Ntzoufras, D. Karlis and L. Egidi (26-28 May 2021).
This is the 5th conference (the 1st virtual conference) in Greece that brings together professionals and academics with a common interest in applying cutting-edge quantitative methods on Sports.
Topics include:

Mathematical and physical models in sports
Performance measures and models
Optimisation of sports performance
Statistics and probability models
Match outcome models
Competitive strategy
Game theoretical models
Optimal tournament design and scheduling,
Decision support systems
Econometrics in sport
Analysis of sporting technologies
Computationally intensive methods
Financial valuation in sport

Contact: groupsportsanalytics@gmail.com

8th MathSport International Conference
2021-06-24 - 2021-06-25 | Online
We are pleased to announce the 8th MathSport International Conference, to be held virtually given the Covid-19 Pandemic, on the 24th and 25th June 2021. The on-location meeting that was originally planned for Reading (UK) will be postponed to 2022.
The Department of Economics at the University of Reading is honoured to have been selected to host this event, which has been bringing leading experts in their fields, both in academia and industry, together since 2007, to present and discuss their work. We invite submissions from all disciplines, from Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, Economics, and many others.
Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to, mathematical and physical models in sport, performance measures and models, optimisation of sport performance, statistical and probability models, match and scoreline outcome models, competitive strategy, game theoretical models, optimal contest design and scheduling, decision support systems, analysis of rules and adjudication, econometrics in sport, analysis of sporting technologies, mathematics education and sport, computationally intensive methods, financial valuation in sport, e-sports (gaming), betting and sport, and quantitative sports marketing.
The conference will take place virtually on Microsoft Teams, and will take place over a day and a half. The Department of Economics at the University of Reading is very well experienced to host a conference in such a setting, having successfully organised the weekly Reading Online Sport Economics Seminars since March 2020 (see YouTube playlist for recordings of the events).
There will be no registration fee. The meeting will be free.
Keynote Speaker:
Luigi Colombo, SmartOdds.

Abstract submission:
Please submit your abstract using this Easychair link before March 24th. Note that, when your abstract is accepted, a (short) proceedings paper is required (by May 24th).

Important dates:
Abstract submission deadline: 24th March 2021
Notification of acceptance: 23rd April 2021
Submission of paper for proceedings: May 24th 2021 (required).
Registration deadlines: May 24th 2021 for speakers; June 7th 2021 for others.

Registration:
Registration is free, but mandatory. Click here to register.

Proceedings:
Each Mathsport conference has produced a Proceedings Volume, a collection of 6-page short papers to accompany each of the presentations. This will be produced in time for the conference. A short paper in the Proceedings publication is required for accepted abstracts for this conference.

5th Eastern Conference on Football Economics - 7th Western Conference on Football and Finance
2021-07-02 - 2021-07-03
HSE University, New Economic School, University of Reading, and Paderborn University are organizing a conference on the economics and finance of football. It is aimed to highlight high quality research of the football industry as well as to facilitate the cooperation between academics and practitioners.
The organizers invite researchers to submit full papers for presentation. Theoretical and empirical research papers that cover the economic, financial, social, and managerial aspects of the football industry are welcome. The list of possible topics includes, but is not limited to: success factors in football, football league regulations, financial fair-play, tournament design, contest theory, optimization of match strategies, corruption, betting, spectators’ demand, financial and social issues of the World Cup, scheduling, referee assignments, and competitive balance.
One of the principal goals of the conference is to provide each speaker the detailed feedback from the communities of sports economists and people working in the field of operations research in sports. For that purpose, full text of the paper must be submitted through EasyChair by May 15, 2021. Notifications of acceptance will be sent no later than June 10, 2021. The program committee will assign a discussant to each paper by June 11, 2021. Each conference speaker is expected to serve as a discussant for one other paper. Full papers will NOT be published anywhere; each full paper will be sent to one discussant. Submission link is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=footecfin2021
Plenary lectures will be delivered by Helmut Dietl (University of Zurich), Bernd Frick (Paderborn University), Alex Krumer (Molde University College), and Celso Ribeiro (Fluminense Federal University).
For more information about the conference, please visit the website https://www.footballeconomics.ru/ If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Dmitry Dagaev (dagaev@hse.ru).

OR in Sports at EURO 2021
2021-07-11 - 2021-07-14 | Athens, Athens, Greece
The EURO working group “OR in Sports” is organizing a stream on OR in Sports, as part of the EURO Conference, July 11-14 2021 in Athens, Greece (more information about the conference can be found at http://euro2021athens.com/). We are aiming for a sports track covering various applications and methodologies (e.g. optimization, statistics, analytics, …), much like the sessions we had at the previous EURO conferences in Dublin, Valencia and Poznan.
Given the covid-19 pandemic, the conference will be organaized in HYBRID way (both physical and virtual attendance). In this context, sessions will be created either with physical presence or with remote participation of the delegates. Also, when setting up the schedule, the different time zones of the participants will be considered, so that they take place at appropriate times. In this way we give the opportunity to the participants, the choice of how to participate in it. Thus, each participant can submit his / her work to the conference, according to the program, and decide how to participate later at the time of registration.
Nevertheless, we would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the “OR in sports” stream. You can do this by going to the abstract submission page https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro31 and use the following invitation code: 09d2f244.
The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to May 2, 2021.

AI for Sports Analytics workshop
2021-08-21 - 2021-08-23
The past decade has seen a tremendous growth of interest in sports analytics, not only from an economic and commercial perspective, but also from a purely scientific one. In fact, there has been a growing number of papers published at top artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning venues that revolve around problems in sports, as well as multiple scientific events organized on the topic. Similar to other downstream domains that have benefited from advances of AI and machine learning, this growth in interest is due to important technological improvements in data collection and processing capabilities, progress in statistical learning and in particular deep learning, increased computational resources, and ever-growing economic activities associated with sports and culture (e.g., emergent consultancy ventures revolving around sports data collection and statistics).
The purpose of this workshop on AI for Sports Analytics is to bring together AI researchers, sports data scientists, and other stakeholders who are interested in the intersection of AI and sports. In particular, we are interested in attracting work that focuses on the overlap of multiple areas of AI such as machine learning, game theory, and computer vision and their application to the sports analytics domain. We also plan to have a strong list of invited speakers, participant interaction, and panel discussions.
The workshop will be organized at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2021); it will be virtual.
Please see the conference website for more details and the call for papers: https://sites.google.com/view/ijcai-aisa-2021/home?authuser=0
Submissions will be handled via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aisa2021

2021 New England Symposium on Statistics In Sports
2021-10-01 - 2021-10-29
The 2021 New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports is a meeting of statisticians and quantitative analysts connected with sports teams, sports media, and universities to discuss common problems of interest in statistical modeling and analysis of sports data. The symposium format for 2021 will be a series of online talks during the month of October, 2021.
The meeting will be virtual, but will take place on consecutive Friday afternoons throughout the month of October, 2021. Each session will be 90 minutes long and held on Zoom. Registration will be free.
The full program can be found here.

IFORS Global Sports Analytics webinar
2021-11-17 03:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Paris) | Online
When?
November 17, 2021 9:00 am Washington DC/ 3:00 pm Rome /12:00 am (Nov 18) Melbourne
Hosts: Michael Trick (IFORS Past-President) Frits Spieksma (Incoming IFORS Vice-President)
Register for this free webinar on the IFORS website: www.ifors.org
Invited Speakers:
Elizabeth Wanless (Ohio University)
Dmitry Dagaev (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
Stephanie Kovalchik (ISEAL and Tennis Australia)
Mario Guajardo (Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen)
Several times each year, IFORS will offer free webinars on topics of key interest to those developing and applying operational research and analytics methodologies and models.

6th Eastern Conference on Football Economics / 8th Western Conference on Football and Finance
2022-05-26 - 2022-05-28 | Online
University of Reading, and Paderborn University are organizing a conference on the economics and finance of football. It is aimed to highlight high quality research of the football industry as well as to facilitate the cooperation between academics and practitioners.
The organizers invite researchers to submit extended abstracts for presentation. Theoretical and empirical research papers that cover the economic, financial, social, and managerial aspects of the football industry are welcome. The list of possible topics includes, but is not limited to: transfer market, discrimination, football league regulations, women football, youth football, tournament design, optimization of match strategies, corruption, betting, spectators’ demand, financial and social issues of the World Cup, scheduling, referee assignments, and competitive balance.
To participate in the conference, please submit an extended abstract (3 pages) by February 15, 2022. It should briefly describe the methodology of research, clearly state the hypotheses and main results, and emphasize contribution to the literature. Submission link is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=footecfin2022 Notifications of acceptance will be sent no later than March 15, 2022. One of the principal goals of the conference is to provide each speaker the detailed feedback from the communities of sports economists and people working in the field of operations research in sports. For that purpose, full texts of accepted papers must be submitted by April 15, 2022. The program committee will assign a discussant to each paper by April 26, 2022. Each conference speaker is expected to serve as a discussant for one other paper. Full papers will NOT be published anywhere; each full paper will be sent to one discussant.
Plenary lectures will be delivered by Mario Guajardo (NHH Norwegian School of Economics), Brad Humphreys (West Virginia University), James Reade (University of Reading), Pamela Wicker (Bielefeld University).
There is no conference fee. For more information about the conference, please visit the website https://www.footballeconomics.ru/ If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Dmitry Dagaev (dagaev@hse.ru).

6th AUEB Sports Analytics Workshop
2022-05-26 - 2022-05-27 | Athens, Athens, Greece
The Sports Analytics Group of the Department of Statistics of Athens University of Economics & Business (AUEB) announces the 6th AUEB Sports Analytics Workshop (AUEB SAW2022) ​which will be hosted in a hybrid form (virtual and live) AUEB, Athens (Greece) on the evenings of Thursday 26th and Friday 27th of May 2022 (15.00-21.30 Greek time, EEST (Eastern European Summer Time), GMT+3).
The workshop will be also accompanied by a short course on Basketball Data Science (23-24 May 2022). The short course will be held in hybrid form with a limited number of places available at the facilities of AUEB.
The workshop is dedicated to the memory of Professor Stefane Kesenne, World class Sports Economist, Pioneer in the area, mentor and a good friend of Sports Analytics Group.
The Series of Sports Analytics Workshop was originally organized because of professor Kesenne.
Topics of the workshop include:
*** Mathematical and physical models in sports
*** Performance measures and models
*** Optimisation of sports performance
*** Statistics and probability models
*** Match outcome models
*** Competitive strategy
*** Game theoretical models
*** Optimal tournament design and scheduling,
*** Decision support systems
*** Econometrics in sport
*** Analysis of sporting technologies
*** Computationally intensive methods
*** Financial valuation in sport
A limited number of places of contributed talks will be also available.
If you wish to submit a proposal for a contributed talk please send title, abstract, short-bio (one paragraph) and a photo to Professor Ioannis Ntzoufras (ntzoufras@aueb.gr) by 15 April 2022.
Early registration will be available until Sunday 15 May 2022.
Web-page of SAW2022 is available here https://aueb-analytics.wixsite.com/saw2022
For registration please go here https://aueb-analytics.wixsite.com/saw2022/registration

OR in Sports at EURO XXXII in Espoo (Finland)
2022-07-03 - 2022-07-06 | Aalto University, Espoo, Finland, Finland
The EURO working group “OR in Sports” will be organizing a stream on OR in Sports, as part of the EURO Conference, July 3-6 2022 in Espoo, Finland (more information about the conference can be found at https://euro2022espoo.com/). We are aiming for a sports track covering various applications and methodologies (e.g. optimization, statistics, analytics, …), much like the sessions we had at the previous EURO conferences in Dublin, Valencia, Poznan and Athens (online) in previous years.
More details on abstract submission will be released soon, but save the date (3-6 July, 2022) if you are interested.

MathSport International 2022 (Reading, UK)
2022-07-11 - 2022-07-13 | Reading, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, United Kingdom
MathSport International 2022 will take place at the University of Reading (UK) on July 11 -13, 2022. It will be an in-person meeting (unless pandemic conditions at the time force us to switch to another format). It will be the 9th conference in Europe that brings together Maths and Sport. Previous conferences have been organised by the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA), KU Leuven, Loughborough University, University of Padova, and Athens University of Economics and Business, and University of Reading (online).
Topics: Mathematical and physical models in sport, performance measures and models, optimisation of sport performance, statistical and probability models, match and scoreline outcome models, competitive strategy, game theoretical models, optimal contest design and scheduling, decision support systems, analysis of rules and adjudication, econometrics in sport, analysis of sporting technologies, mathematics education and sport, financial valuation in sport, e-sports (gaming), betting and sport, and quantitative sports marketing.
Keynote speakers: Lotte Bransen (KU Leuven), Stefan Szymanski (Michigan).
Abstract Submission: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=mathsport22
Conference website: research.reading.ac.uk/economics/event/mathsport2022
Conference location: Chemistry Building, Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading (map).
Please note the following important dates:
Abstract submission deadline: 13 May 2022 (extended)
Notification of acceptance:15 May 2022
Submission of paper for proceedings: 1 July 2022
Registration dates: For speakers June 1 2022, for participants July 1 2022
More information on the abstract submission process will be released soon (see also MathSport International)
Proceedings: Each Mathsport conference has produced a Proceedings Volume, a collection of 6-page short papers to accompany each of the presentations. This will be produced in time for the conference.
Any questions can be submitted to James Reade at j.j.reade@reading.ac.uk
Note that the UEFA Women’s Euro 2022 (football) tournament takes places in the UK as well in that period (6-31 July, 2022), allowing a combination of studying and enjoying sports.

13th World Congress of Performance Analysis of Sport 2022 & 13th International Symposium on Computer Science in Sport 2022
2022-09-10 - 2022-09-13 | Vienna (Austria), Vienna, Austria
The 13th World Congress of Performance Analysis of Sport (WCPAS2022) and the 13th International Symposium on Computer Science in Sport (IACSS2022) will be held from September 10th – 13th. After 2 years of restrictions in gatherings, imposed by the pandemic, the organizing committee is happy to prepare the event to be held in presence at the historic main building of the University of Vienna. Please visit the website for detailed information.
Dates and deadlines:

01.04.2022
Online registration

11.01.2022
Abstract submission

30.04.2022
Abstract submission ends

15.05.2022
Author notification (abstract)

29.05.2022
Early Bird registration ends

29.05.2022
Deadline -Presenting authors

26.08.2022
Online registration ends

14.10.2022
Deadline -Submission of Full-Paper

Cascadia Symposium on Statistics in Sports
2022-09-24 | Vancouver (Canada), Vancouver, Canada
The 2022 Cascadia Symposium on Statistics in Sports is a meeting of statisticians and quantitative analysts connected with sports teams, sports media, and universities to discuss common problems of interest in statistical modeling and analysis of sports data. The symposium format is a mixture of invited talks, a poster session, and a panel discussion. The meeting will be held at Harbour Centre.
To be considered for an oral presentation, please email an abstract in pdf format (max 2 pages) to cascadia-sports@sfu.ca by May 15, 2022. Be sure to include your name, affiliation, and contact information in the email.
Abstracts will be reviewed by May 31. Note that there will be a poster session for those not accepted as oral presentations. For more details, visit http://www.cascadiasports.com

2nd Reading Football Economics Workshop
2022-12-13 - 2022-12-14 | Reading, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, United Kingdom
On December 13 and 14 2022, the Sport Cluster of the Department of Economics at the University of Reading will host the 2nd Reading Football Economics Workshop.
Topics include work that uses football (however liberally defined), and has some economic content or motivation (again, the definition will be liberal).
We are very pleased that Christina Philippou of the University of Portsmouth, Jorge Tovar of Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia, and Justus Haucap of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf will be our keynote speakers.

This two day event will take place on the two days of the FIFA Men’s World Cup Semi Finals, and social events will involve viewing those two events. We anticipate watching the two games in The Dairy, which serves food and good beer options at the heart of our London Road Campus.
Registration: Registration opens November 8 https://forms.office.com/r/yAXAP7kLKw.
Conference Location: London Road Campus, University of Reading.
More information: https://research.reading.ac.uk/economics/event/2rfew/

7th AUEB Sports Analytics Workshop
2023-05-04 | Athens, Athens, Greece
The Sports Analytics Group of the Department of Statistics of Athens University of Economics & Business (AUEB)
announces the
7th AUEB Sports Analytics Workshop (AUEB SAW2023)
which will be hosted live at AUEB, Athens (Greece) on the evenings of Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th of May 2023 (Exact times will be announced soon).
The workshop will be also accompanied by a virtual short course on Football Analytics (2-3 May 2023).
Topics of the workshop include:
*** Mathematical and physical models in sports
*** Performance measures and models
*** Optimisation of sports performance
*** Statistics and probability models
*** Match outcome models
*** Competitive strategy
*** Game theoretical models
*** Optimal tournament design and scheduling,
*** Decision support systems
*** Econometrics in sport
*** Analysis of sporting technologies
*** Computationally intensive methods
*** Financial valuation in sport
A limited number of contributed talks will be accepted. In case you wish to contribute a talk. Please submit your contributed talk here https://tinyurl.com/SAW2023-abstract by 30/3/2023. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be as soon as possible and before 10/4/2023.
Apply now here https://aueb-analytics.wixsite.com/saw2023/registration .
Early registration will be available until Sunday 23rd of April 2023.
A limited number of positions is available.

World Congress on Science and Football
2023-05-24 - 2023-05-26 | Groningen, Netherlands
On behalf of the organizing committee it’s a great pleasure to announce that the World Congress on Science and Football will be held in Groningen, The Netherlands.
We believe that all the necessary ingredients are available in Groningen to make the Congress a success; over 400 years of academic tradition, applied science, entrepreneurship, a young population, great facilities, a charming and compact environment, a rich football culture and close collaborations with the national football federation, professional and amateur football clubs in the Netherlands.
Enhance performance, engage society
The congress slogan ‘Enhance performance, engage society’ illustrates the many opportunities to translate knowledge and innovation in the domain of football performance towards activities and initiatives to increase sports participation and public health from grass roots to old age.
All presentations and activities will be in line with the overall theme of the congress ‘Enhance performance, Engage society’ and cover all codes of football, including association football (soccer), futsal, rugby, American football, Australian rules football and more.
Scientific Abstract Submission Guidelines
The deadline for abstract submission: December 16, 2022, 24.00h CET.

February 20, 2023: notification of acceptance.
All abstracts should be submitted electronically through the abstract submission page on www.wcsf2023.com
Abstracts must follow the submission guidelines.
All abstracts will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee (SC) and the SC will decide which abstracts will be accepted.
You indicate whether you prefer an oral or poster presentation.
You select to which theme(s) you submit your abstract.
The SC decides about to which session (oral or poster) the abstracts are set.

Presentation

Oral
Poster

Themes

Load and Recovery Monitoring
Training and Testing
Talent Identification
Coaching
Biomechanics
Psychology
Decision-making
Technology
Big Data
Injury Prevention
Injury Management
Football is medicine
Refereeing
Football Economics
Historical, cultural, sociological, and anthropological approaches to football

Sport Economics & Sport Management
2023-05-25 - 2023-05-26 | Budapest (Hungary), Budapest, Hungary
Call for Papers: The conference will provide a platform for exchanging innovative thoughts and creating cooperation between researchers in the fields of sport management and economics. We are inviting proposals for paper presentations as well as complete sessions consisting out of three papers/presenters. This conference provides researchers with an opportunity to present theoretical, empirical, and policy-oriented research.
Organizing Committee: Gergely Csurilla (KRTK Institute of Economics), Georg Stadtmann (European University Viadrina)
Program Committee: Wladimir Andreff (Paris) ∙ Neil Longley (Massachusetts) ∙ Dennis Coates (Maryland, Baltimore) ∙ Eike Emrich (Saarbrücken) ∙ Christian Pierdzioch (Hamburg) ∙ Stefan Szymanski (Michigan) ∙ Christian Dreger (Berlin) ∙ Georg Stadtmann (Frankfurt/Oder) ∙ Tim Pawlowski (Tübingen) ∙ Alexander Ferrauti (Bochum) ∙ Oliver Budzinski (Ilmenau) ∙ Bernd Frick (Paderborn) ∙ Gerd G. Wagner (Berlin) ∙ Markus Kurscheidt (Bayreuth) ∙ Joel G. Maxcy (Phiadelphia) ∙ Martin Falk (Vienna) ∙ Martin Kocher (Vienna) Luc Arrondel (Paris) ∙ Jean‐François Brocard (IASE) ∙ Richard Duhautois (CNAM) ∙ Oskar Kowalewski (Paris)
Deadline for paper submission: Dec. 31st, 2022.
Please visit http://sesmberlin.wix.com/smse or contact sesm@europa‐uni.de

MathSport International 2023
2023-06-26 - 2023-06-28 | Budapest (Hungary), Budapest, Hungary
MathSport International 2023 will take place at the Corvinus University of Budapest (Budapest, Hungary) on June 26–28, 2023. It will be an in-person meeting (unless pandemic conditions at the time force us to switch to another format). It will be the 10th conference in Europe that brings together Maths and Sport. Previous conferences have been organised by the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA), KU Leuven, Loughborough University, University of Padova, Athens University of Economics and Business, and University of Reading.
Topics: Mathematical and physical models in sport, performance measures and models, optimisation of sport performance, statistical and probability models, match and scoreline outcome models, competitive strategy, game theoretical models, optimal contest design and scheduling, decision support systems, analysis of rules and adjudication, econometrics in sport, analysis of sporting technologies, mathematics education and sport, financial valuation in sport, e-sports (gaming), betting and sport, and quantitative sports marketing.
Keynote speakers: Ian McHale (University of Liverpool), Ignacio Palacios-Huerta (London School of Economics), and László Toka (Budapest University of Technology and Economics).
Abstract Submission: Please submit your abstract using this form
Abstracts should be in English, and are restricted to 1000 characters.
Conference website: https://sites.google.com/view/mathsportinternational10
Conference location: Corvinus University of Budapest, Building E (map).
Please note the following important dates:
Abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2023 (extended!)
Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2023
Submission of paper for proceedings: 1 June 2023
Early registration deadline: 1 May 2023
Proceedings: A collection of 6-page short papers will be published as conference proceedings.
Special issue: There will be the possibility to submit your paper to a special issue of a peer-reviewed sports journal (more details will follow).
Any questions can be submitted to László Csató at laszlo.csato@uni-corvinus.hu.
