
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)
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)
Organized by
Ioannis Ntzoufras
Dimitris Karlis
Sotiris Drikos
Administrative Assistant
K. Matzorakis
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The workshop program is now finalized subject to minor changes that may suddenly occur.
