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.

OR in Sports at IFORS
2023-07-10 - 2023-07-14 | Santiago (Chile)
A stream on “OR in Sports” will be organized as part of the IFORS conference, July 10-14, 2023 in Santiago, Chile (more information about the conference can be found at https://ifors2023.com/). This sports track can cover various applications and methodologies (e.g. optimization, statistics, analytics, economics, …), much like the OR in Sports sessions at the EURO conferences in previous years.
We invite you to submit an abstracts in our stream. Abstracts must be written in English and contain no more than 2500 characters. Each attendee is allowed to present one paper at the conference; the person submitting the abstract must be the one presenting.
For more information, contact celso.ribeiro@gmail.com or dsaure@dii.uchile.cl
Abstract submission deadline: March 15, 2023.

New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports (NESSIS)
2023-09-23 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1 Oxford Street, MA, United States
The 2023 New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports will be 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 will be a mixture of invited talks, a poster session, and a panel discussion.
Abstract submission is now open (deadline July 15, 2023).
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.
NESSIS registration is now open.

3rd Reading Football Economics Conference & 7th Sport Economics Sport Management Conference
2024-05-07 - 2024-05-08 | Reading, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, United Kingdom
On May 7-8 2024 the Department of Economics at the University of Reading will host the 3rd Reading Football Economics Conference and the 7th Sport Economics Sport Management International Conference in conjunction with the International Association of Sports Economists (https://www.iase-sport.org) concurrently. This event is generously sponsored by the Sports Economics Review, published by Elsevier, and the keynote speaker for the event will be Colin Camerer, of the California Institute of Technology.
We invite submissions in all areas of sport, and areas of economics and management where a sporting application yields significant insight. Presentations on May 7-8 will be organised into sessions relating to the two conferences taking place at the same time in Reading. Depending on the volume of submissions, parallel sessions may be organised.
Keynote speakers, and details regarding any (small) conference fees and any associated conference events, will be confirmed in due course.
Submissions should be made here: https://forms.office.com/e/QajUZrXcLx.

8th AUEB Sports Analytics Workshop
2024-05-23 - 2024-05-24 | Athens, Athens, Greece
The Sports Analytics Group of the Department of Statistics of Athens University of Economics & Business (AUEB) announces the
8th AUEB Sports Analytics Workshop (AUEB SAW2024)
which will be hosted live at AUEB, Athens (Greece) on the evenings of Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th of May 2024 (Exact times will be announced soon).
The workshop will be also accompanied by a live short course on BASKETBALL DATA SCIENCE (20-22 May 2024) and a virtual short course on FOOTBALL ANALYTICS (27-30 May 2024).

Topics of the workshop include:
*** Mathematical and physical models in sports
*** Performance measures and models
*** Optimization 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/SAW2024-abstract by 31/3/2024. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent as soon as possible and no later than 15/4/2024.

Apply now here https://aueb-analytics.wixsite.com/saw2024/registration.
Early registration will be available until the 30th of April 2024.
Early registration will be available until Sunday 23rd of April 2023. A limited number of positions is available.

"Fairness in Sports" workshop
2024-06-11 | Ghent University, Tweekerkenstraat 2, Ghent, Belgium
Fairness in sport is not just about assigning the top prizes to the worthiest competitors. It is also about the way the competition itself is organized. How to design rules that do not favor certain competitors? How to design a schedule of play that a priori offers similar chances to each participant? How to reconcile various (often conflicting) requests expressed by the stakeholders? It seems that as financial interests in sports increase, fairness is increasingly under pressure, and research on fairness issues in sports is becoming more and more relevant. The workshop focusses on scientific methods to achieve greater fairness in sports, both from a theoretical and a practical point of view.
The program includes the following speakers:
** Juan-Moreno Ternero: “Fair resource allocation in sports competitions”
** Laszlo Csato: “Random matching in balanced bipartite graphs: The (un)fairness of draw mechanisms used in sports”
** Frits Spieksma: “Fair Schedules for Single Round Robin Tournaments with Ranked Participants”
** Alessandro Di Mattia: “The Effect of a Structural Change in Round-Robin Tournaments with Four Teams: Evidence from Beach Volleyball”
** Joonas Pääkkönen: “Hard-to-solve Rogaining Competitions”
** Dóra Gréta Petróczy: “Alternative UEFA country rankings based on pairwise comparisons”
** Julien Guyon: TBA
** Morteza Davari: “Redefining NBA Divisions: A Blueprint for NBA Expansion”
** Felix Otto: “Measures to increase fairness in subjective performance evaluations”
** Mehmet Ismail: “Fairer Tournaments: Matching and Scoring Players in Games (Like Chess) and Sports (Like Soccer)”

The workshop is a free 1-day event, which will take place on June 11th, 2024, in the historic city of Ghent, Belgium.
Registration is required, but free (extended deadline: May 26th).
It continues a tradition that began in Ghent in 2018 and was followed by an engaging session in London the same year.
For more information, please visit our website at https://www.sportscheduling.ugent.be/FairnessInSports

OR in Sports at EURO XXXIII in Copenhagen (Denmark)
2024-06-30 - 2024-07-03 | Copenhagen, Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
The EURO working group “OR in Sports” is organizing a stream on OR in Sports, as part of the EURO Conference, 30th June – 3rd July, 2024 in Copenhagen, Denmark. We are aiming for a sports track covering various applications and methodologies (e.g. optimization, statistics, analytics, economics, …), much like the sessions we had at the previous EURO conferences in Poznan, Valencia, Dublin, Athens (online), and Espoo in previous years.
We invite you to submit an abstract in our stream. Using the invitation code fa117495, you can submit your abstract by going to the abstract submission page
https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro33/. Abstracts must be written in English and contain no more than 1500 characters (no formulas or mathematical notation are allowed). Each attendee is allowed to present one paper at the conference.
More information about the conference can be found at https://euro2024cph.dk/.
If you have questions, or you wish to organize a session, please contact dries.goossens@ugent.be or f.c.r.spieksma@tue.nl.
Submission deadline: March 3, 2024.
Feel free to forward this call to anyone you think might be interested. We are looking forward to seeing you in Denmark!

Cascadia Symposium on Statistics in Sports
2024-09-21 | Vancouver (Canada), Vancouver, Canada
The 2024 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.
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, 2024. 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

MathSport Asia
2024-12-09 - 2024-12-11 | Udaipur, India, Udaipur, India
MathSport Asia 2024 will be held from December 9, 2024 to December 11, 2024 and will be hosted by the Indian Institute of Management Udaipur at Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. It is a follow-up conference for the inaugural 2018 MathSport Asia conference, which was held in Jamshedpur (India). A unique feature of the conference is that apart from the academic/ technical sessions there will be talks every evening by leading sports analytics practitioners from India.
MathSport Asia seeks to promote the application of mathematics and statistics to all aspects of sports by bringing together various stakeholders: academicians, sports people, sports bodies, industry, sports academies, sports leagues and the government.
We invite you to participate in the Mathsport Asia 2024 International Conference. We invite you to submit abstracts, competitive papers and working papers. Some of the important topics include:

Mathematical Models in Sports
Optimization in Sports
Statistics and Probability Models
Match Outcome Models
Game Theoretical Models
E-sports (gaming)
Econometric Modeling of Sports
Betting and Sports
Sports Management
Para Sports
Role of AI in Sports

However, call for abstracts/papers are not limited to the sub-topics mentioned above. Papers that address any aspect of sports using computational/ mathematical/ statistical analytical approaches are welcome.
Call for papers:
MathSportAsia2024_Call_for_Papers

Keynote speakers:
* Young Hoon Lee – Professor of Economics, Sogang University, South Korea
* Phil Scarf – Professor of Management Mathematics, Cardiff Business School, United Kingdom
* Dries Goossens – Professor of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium
* Ramakrishnan ‘Ramky’ Subramanian – CEO, SportsMechanics India

Abstract submission:
Authors are invited to submit abstracts of at most 2000 characters (space included). Abstracts should mention 3-5 keywords and should be written in English.
Abstracts must be submitted through the Microsoft CMT https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/MathSportAsia2024/Submission/Index.
For more information regarding conference proceedings of full papers, check the conference website: https://msa.iimu.ac.in/

Important dates:
Abstract Submission opens: May 15 2024.
Abstract Submission deadline: July 15 2024
Intimation of Acceptance/ Rejection: July 29 2024.
Early registration begins: August 1 2024
Early registration deadline: October 31 2024
Conference: December 9-11 2024

Football Finance & Analytics
2025-02-14 - 2025-02-15 | Oldham (UK), Hilbre Ave, Oldham, United Kingdom
Join us for a two-day event that delves into the world of finance and analytics in football, with fascinating insight from academia and sport all based at Boundary Park.
With the Price of Football podcast host and University of Liverpool lecturer, Kieran Maguire headlining the event alongside co-author of Soccernomics, Professor Stefan Szymanski.
Tickets are now available to purchase from the link below or by visiting OldhamAthletic.co.uk/Events.
Priced at £50 for a conference ticket, which includes an evening with former Premier League manager and current Zambia head coach, Avram Grant. There are also discounts available for Latics season ticket holders and students in full-time education, priced at £40 and £30 respectively.
All tickets purchased for this event come with a complimentary match ticket for Oldham Athletic’s home game against Sutton United (Saturday 15 February, 3pm kick-off).
For more information about this event, including the list of contributors and keynote speakers alongside the event itinerary, please see below.
Main contributors:
Kieran Maguire (Price of Football, University of Liverpool)
Prof. Stefan Szymanski (Soccernomics, University of Michigan)
Prof. Tony Collins (De Montfort University)
Jack Coles (Lincoln City FC)

AUEB Sports Analytics Workshop & Conference 2025 (SAW 2025)
2025-05-05 - 2025-05-06 | Athens, Athens, Greece
The Sports Analytics Group of the Department of Statistics of Athens University of Economics & Business (AUEB) announces the
9th AUEB Sports Analytics Workshop (AUEB SAW2025)
which will be hosted live at AUEB, Athens (Greece) on the evenings of Monday 5th and Tuesday 6th of May 2025 (Exact times will be announced soon).
The workshop will be also accompanied by a live short course on FOOTBALL ANALYTICS (7-9 May 2025) and a virtual short course on BASKETBALL DATA SCIENCE (7-9 May 2025).
Topics of the workshop include:

Mathematical and physical models in sports
Performance measures and models
Optimization 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/auebsaw2025-abstract by 10/3/2025. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent as soon as possible and no later than 15/3/2025.
Webpage of SAW2025 is available here https://aueb-analytics.wixsite.com/saw2025.
Apply now here https://aueb-analytics.wixsite.com/saw2025/registration.
Early registration will be available until the 31st of March 2025.

MathSport International 2025
2025-06-04 - 2025-06-06 | Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
We are thrilled to announce that the biennial MathSport International Conference will be held from June 4th to June 6th, 2025 in Luxembourg.
The conference is organized by various entities: team MIDAS from the University of Luxembourg, COSL, LUNEX, LIH, LIROMS and LIHPS.
The main topics of this exciting event are sports analytics, sports medicine, sports economics and sports scheduling. Learn about the schedule and more details on the conference website.
We will have 5 high-profile keynote speakers, 3 parallel sessions, hands-on workshops, and a Meet&Greet with world famous athletes.
The event is open to all! Whether you are from academia, industry, or clinical or sport professionals, we will be excited to welcome you for this event where sports and science meet.
The conference will be hosted in a hybrid mode, so you can join remotely if you cannot travel to Luxembourg.

Topics include (but are not restricted to):

Mathematical and physical models in sports
Performance measures and models
Optimisation of sports performance
Statistics and probability models
Match outcome models
Competitive strategy
Sports Quantitative marketing
Game theoretical models
Tournament 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 sports

The term sport is interpreted liberally here and includes games and pastimes, gambling, lotteries, general fitness and health-related activities.

Event program
Meet world famous athletes
During our Meet&Greet event, you will have the change to meet world famous athletes:
• Andy Schleck – 🚴‍♂️ Tour de France winner 2010
• Vincent Gérard – 🤾‍♂️ World Champion 2017 and Olympic Champion 2020
• Ni Xia Lian – 🏓 Mixed doubles World Champion 1983 and European Champion 2002
5 high-profile keynote speakers
The conference will host 5 keynote speakers on different exciting topics:
• Sports analytics by Paola Zuccolotto
• Sports scheduling by Frits Spieksma
• Sports medecine by Evert Verhagen
• Sports economics by Tim Pawlowski
• Data and coaching by Dan Lorang
Hands-on workshops
On day 2 of the conference, you will have the opportunity to participate to hands-on workshops, organized by Lunex and LIHPS.
Learn about Indiaka
As a closing session of the conference, on day 3, you will have the opportunity to sign up for an initiation to indiaka. Get your shoes ready to learn from the head coach of the Luxembourg national team!

Abstract
Abstract submissions are now open. You can submit your abstract until February 7th 2025 (extended deadline). Note that submission only requires a title and an abstract. Information about the conference proceedings will be announced as soon as possible.

Registration
You can now register to the conference. Note that early bird registration fees apply until February 28th, 2025.

OR in Sports at EURO XXXIV in Leeds (UK)
2025-06-22 - 2025-06-25 | Leeds, United Kingdom
The EURO working group “OR in Sports” is organizing a stream on OR in Sports, as part of the EURO Conference, 22nd June – 25th July, 2025 in Leeds, UK. We are aiming for a sports track covering various applications and methodologies (e.g. optimization, statistics, analytics, economics, …), much like the sessions we had at the previous EURO conferences in Poznan, Valencia, Dublin, Athens (online), Espoo, and Copenhagen in previous years.
We invite you to submit an abstract in our stream. Using the invitation code 43740d9f, you can submit your abstract by going to the abstract submission page
https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro34/. Abstracts must be written in English and contain no more than 1500 characters (no formulas or mathematical notation are allowed). Each attendee is allowed to present one paper at the conference.
More information about the conference can be found at https://euro2025leeds.uk/.
If you have questions, or you wish to organize a session, please contact dries.goossens@ugent.be or f.c.r.spieksma@tue.nl.
Submission deadline: March 8, 2025.
Feel free to forward this call to anyone you think might be interested. We are looking forward to seeing you in Leeds!
