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Workshop Program​

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

 

Monday 26/11/2018

15.00-15.30    Conference Registration

15.30-15.45    Welcome by Ioannis Ntzoufras & Dimitris Karlis

15.45-16.45    Sports Economics Lecture: Competitive imbalance, transfer market and youth training

                       Stefan Kesenne (Univ. of Antwerp & Univ. of Leuven, Belgium)

16.45-17.30    Basketball Data Science 

                       Paola Zuccoloto (University of Brescia, Italy)

17.30-18.00    Coffee Break

18.00-18.45    Bayesian hierarchical models for predicting individual performance in soccer 

                       Leonardo Egidi (University of Trieste, Italy)

18.45-19.15    An Overview of Football Analytics 

                       Ioannis Ntzoufras (AUEB, Greece)

19.15-19.45    Coffee break

19.45-20.15    Optimization in Professional Sports: Scheduling the Indian Super League 

                       Walter Sebastian Gisler (GotSoccer, USA)  

20.15-20.45    Μodel based predictions for soccer with application to inplay betting

                       Dimitris Karlis (AUEB, Greece) 

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Tuesday 27/11/2018

 

15.00-16.00   Sports Economics Lecture:  Free-entry football market and the number of professional teams

Stefan Kesenne (Univ. of Antwerp & Univ. of Leuven, Belgium)

16.00-16.30   Competitive Balance in European Football

                      Vasilis Manasis (AUEB Sports Analytics Group, Greece)

16.30-17.00   Which side are you on? The effect of rivalry on behavioural intentions for celebrity footballer brand offerings

                      Eugenia Tzοumaka (The American College of Greece)

17.00-17.30   Coffee Break

17.30-18.00   The Life Cycle of Odds - From Mesopotamia to Brexit

                       Kostas Maras (Stoiximan, Greece)

18.00-18.30    Creating value from data generated by football fans using a mobile app

                       Ioannis Papadopoulos (Dribbly, France) 

18.30-19.00    Expanding a startup to assist the athletes accelerate their sport-specific growth using Data Science

                       Dimitrios Sakellaris (Statathlon, Greece)

19.00-19.30    Coffee Break

19.30-19.50     The range of skills needed to interpret a volleyball set result for men and women 

                        Sotiris Drikos (AUEB Sports Analytics Group, Greece)

19.50-20.20     Do high-pressure conditions impact on performance in basketball? A big data analytics approach

                        Marica Manisera (University of Brescia, Italy)

20.20-20.40     Review of Evaluation Metrics for basketball players.

                        Christos Marmarinos (University of Athens)

20.40-21.00     The role of Statistics and Numbers in Basketball

                        Vasilis Skountis (Basketball Journalist)

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Ioannis Ntzoufras

Dimitris Karlis

Sotiris Drikos

 

Administrative Assistant

K. Matzorakis

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