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Confirmed Talks and Speakers​

• Evaluating the risk of tanking in tournaments with a preliminary round-robin group stage by László Csató, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

• Extending the Dixon and Coles model: an application to women's football data by Marius Oetting, University of Bielefeld, Germany 

• Scheduling women’s football in Belgium by Dries Groossens, Ghent University, Belgium

• Missing data patterns in runners’ careers: do they matter? by Mattia Stival, University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Italy 

• World Cup 2022 storytelling: a fantastic prediction tale by Leonardo Egidi, University of Trieste, Italy

• Transition moments in European football: opportunities and vulnerabilities by Vasilis Armatas, Olympiakos FC Academy, Greece

• Evaluating Individual Football Player Performances using a Debiased Machine Learning Approach by Robert Bajons, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

• Clustering of soccer game situations in order to populate virtual environments by Brigitte Gelein, École nationale de la statistique et de l'analyse de l'information, France

• A game theory approach to fairness in sports scheduling by Mario Guajardo, NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Norway

• From numbers to Actions: Using Data Management to Drive Sustainability in Sports by Ioannis Konstantopoulos, University of Innsbruck, Austria, & Sports Footprint

• Football analytics based on player tracking data using interpolation techniques for the prediction of missing coordinates by Christos Kontos, AUEB, Greece

• Estimating Team Possessions in Euroleague Basketball Competition by Christos Marmarinos, AUEB & Kosovo National Basket, Greece

• Pythagorean Expectation and other Machine Learning applications in Euroleague by Aristotelis Michailidis, AUEB Sports Analytics Group, Greece

• Implicit Biases in Refereeing: Lessons from NBA Referees by Konstantinos Pelechrinis, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• Predicting Shot Success in NBA by Anastasios Pliatsikas, AUEB Sports Analytics Group, Greece

• Bayesian Hierarchical Modelling for inter-intra seasonal effects of athletic performance by Mariza Spyropoulou, University of Kent, United Kingdom

• Game theory in strategic decision making in Volleyball by Ioannis Stylianou, University of Nicosia, Cyprus

• Skin tone of NBA players and performance statistics. Is there a relationship? by Michail Tsagris, University of Crete, Greece

• Globalized Markets for Talents: Can we predict the inequality in Football? by Chrysovalantis Vasilakis, Bangor University, United Kingdom

• Model Based Performance Indicators for In-play Basketball Data by Ioannis Ntzoufras,,AUEB Sports Analytics Group, Greece

• Play by play data from Euro League and the theory of chaos by Dimitris Karlis, AUEB Sports Analytics Group, Greece

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