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Workshop Program ​
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Monday 23/5/2022
11:45 - 12:15 Entry to TEAMS Virtual Room / Registration
12.15 - 16.00 Short Course on Basketball Data Science by Paola Zuccolotto & Marica Manisera
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Tuesday 24/5/2022
14.00 - 18.00 Short Course on Basketball Data Science by Paola Zuccolotto & Marica Manisera
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Thursday 26/5/2022
16.30 - 21.30 SAW2022 Day 1
16:30 - 17:00 Entry to TEAMS Virtual Room / Registration
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Session 1: Sports Economics (In Honor of Stefan Kesenne) - Virtual
17:00 - 17:10 Welcome and SAW Opening by Ioannis Ntzoufras
17:10 - 17:25 Thomas Peeters (Erasmus School of Economics): Remembering Stefan Kesenne (1950 – 2021)
17:25 - 17:45 Thomas Peeters (Erasmus School of Economics): The Impact of Absent Coworkers on Productivity in Teams
17:45 - 18:10 Georgios Nalbantis (University of Tubingen): Generalists versus specialists: Testing a dynamic framework on the impact of stars
18:10 - 18:35 Elisavet Manoli (University of Loughborough): Revisiting financial fair play and competitive balance
18:35 - 18:45 Break
Session 2: Methods for Sports Analytics - Virtual
18:45 - 19:10 Nial Friel (University College Dublin): Assessing competitive balance in the English First Division/Premier League for
over forty seasons using a stochastic block model
19:10 -19:35 Konstantinos Pelechrinis (University of Pittsburgh): The hot hand in the wild
19:35 - 20:00 Frits Spieksma (Eindhoven University of Technology): Orthogonal schedules in Round Robin tournaments
20:00 - 20:10 Break
Session 3: Data & Tech for Sports - Virtual
20:10 - 20:35 Michael Anagnostou (University Campus of Football Business): The use of technology in football clubs' operations
20:35 - 21:00 Vincenzo Alfano (University of Messina): Training in lockdown. The impact of stringency measures on the Olympic games of Tokyo 2020
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*All times refer to the Greek time-zone (GMT+3)
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Friday 27/5/2022
13.30 - 21.00 SAW2022 Day 2 - Live (Room T04) & Teams streaming
13:30 - 14:00 Entry to TEAMS Virtual Room / Registration
Session 4: General
14:00- 14:25 Kostas Chatzichristos (CSKA Moscow Basketball): How data can be translated into meaningful information, personalized performance monitoring via statistical and stochastic algorithms
14:25- 14:50 Giannos Konstantopoulos (The Sports Footprint): Leveraging the power of Data to create Sustainable Sports
14:50 - 15:15 Matia Cefis (University of Brescia): The Higher-Order PLS-SEM Confirmatory Approach for Composite Indicators applied on Football
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15:15 - 15:25 Break
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Session 5: General
15:25 - 15:50 Vasilios Manasis (University of Athens & AUEB): Trends in competitive balance and the long-term success of European football
15:50 - 16:15 Nina Deliu (Sapienza Universita di Roma): Enhancing the fight against doping: using copulas for multivariate
testing analysis on Athlete Biological Passport profiles
16:15 - 16:40 Petros Dellaportas (AUEB & UCL): Flexible marked spatio-temporal point processes with applications to event
sequences from association football
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16:40 - 16:50 Break
Session 6: Football Analytics
16:50 - 17:15 Vasilios Armatas (Olympiacos FC Academy): Effects of gender, age and match status on the tactical development of shooting opportunities during the U17, U20 and Senior FIFA World Cup. A multilevel analysis.
17:15 - 17:25 Vasilios Mexias (Fantasy Sports Interactive - FSI): Fantasy Sports Interactive - Innovative Fantasy Sports Analytics
17:25 - 17:45 Vasilios Palaskas (Fantasy Sports Interactive -FSI): A Performance Evaluation of the EURO 2020 Soccer Players based on Fantasy Sports Points
17:45 - 18:10 Leonardo Egidi (University of Trieste): footBayes: an R package for fitting Bayesian and frequentist football models
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18:10 - 18:40 Break
Session 7: Volleyball Analytics
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18:40 - 19:05 Ioannis Ntzoufras (AUEB Sports Analytics Group): Bayesian Skill Importance for Volleyball Set Determination
19:05 - 19:30 Sotirios Drikos (University of Athens & AUEB): Post-tournament analysis. Methods to investigate teams performance. The Volleyball example.
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19:30 - 19:45 Break
Session 8: Basketball Analytics
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19:45 - 20:10 Christos Marmarinos (AUEB & Kosovo National Basketball Team): Basketball & Analytics: How analytics shaped the Sport
20:10 - 20:35 Ambra Macis (University of Brescia): Evaluating the performance of NBA players: A survival analysis study
20:35 - 21:00 Dimitrios Karlis (AUEB Sports Analytics Group): Modelling the outcome of basketball game: some new results.
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*All times refer to the Greek time-zone (GMT+3)
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Organized by
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Ioannis Ntzoufras
Dimitris Karlis
Sotiris Drikos
Administrative Assistants
Argiro Damoulaki
Panayotis Zoris
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