Workshop Program
(Now Available)
Monday 24/5/2021
16.30-21.00 SAW2021 Day 1
16.30-17.00 Registration
17.00-17.05 Welcome by Ioannis Ntzoufras
17.05-17.30 Christophe Ley (University of Ghent, Belgium)
The Probabilistic Final Standing Calculator: a fair stochastic tool to handle
abruptly stopped football seasons
17.30-17.55 Abdulah Zafar (University of Toronto, Canada)
Characterizing Team Passing Behavior in Elite Football: A Topological Approach
17.55 -18.20 Marius Ötting (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Analyzing football tactics using high-frequency tracking data
18.20-18.35 Break
18.35-19.00 Kostas Pelechrinis (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Positional value in soccer
19.00-19.25 James Reade (University of Reading, UK)
Understanding the Impact of Covid-19 on Football
19.25-19.40 Break
19.40-20.15 Marica Manisera (University of Brescia, Italy)
Basketball performance variability and line-up interactions
20.15-20.40 Christos Marmarinos (University of Athens, Greece)
Estimating team possessions in Euroleague Basketball competition
*All times refer to the Greek time-zone (GMT+3)
Tuesday 25/5/2021
16.30-21.00 SAW2021 Day 2
16.30-17.00 Registration
17.00-17.30 Vasilis Palaskas & Bill Mexias (Fantasy Sports Interactive, UK & Greece)
Statistical methodologies and approach for the prediction of athletes’ fantasy performance ratings
17.30-18.00 George Marinakos (OPAP, Greece)
CRM Analytics in the Greek online sports betting market. “Applied data science empowers the ultimate customer experience”
18.00-18.15 Break
18.15-18.40 Dimitris Gkoumas (AUEB, Greece)
Clustering analysis for the Balloon D’Or partial ranking datasets of the period 2010-15
18.40-19.05 Pavlos Kollias (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Statistical modeling for the evaluation of basketball performance
19.05-19.30 Michalis Tsagris (University of Crete, Greece)
Estimating NBA players salary share according to their performance on court: A machine learning approach
19.30-19.45 Break
19.45-20.10 Ioannis Ntzoufras (AUEB, Greece)
Bayesian Models for Prediction of the Set-Difference in Volleyball
20.10-20.35 Sotiris Drikos (AUEB Sports Analytics Group)
Inquiry into the discriminant game variables that predict success and performance level in elite men's volleyball
20.35-21.00 Aggelos Alexopoulos (University of Cambridge, UK)
Network analysis to predict tennis career paths: The case of Tsitsipas
*All times refer to the Greek time-zone (GMT+3
Wednesday 26/5/2021
18.15-21.00 Short Course on Football Analytics by I. Ntzoufras
Thursday 27/5/2021
18.15-21.00 Short Course on Football Analytics by L. Egidi
Friday 28/5/2021
18.15-21.00 Short Course on Football Analytics by D. Karlis
Organized by
Ioannis Ntzoufras
Dimitris Karlis
Sotiris Drikos
Administrative Assistant
Aggelos Kekempanos