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SAW2023 Program ​
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Tuesday 2/5/2023
16.00-16.30 Entry to TEAMS Virtual Room / Registration
16.30-21.00 Short Course on Football Analytics by D.Karlis, I.Ntzoufras & L. Egidi
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Wednesday 3/5/2022
16.30-21.00 Short Course on Football Analytics by D.Karlis, I.Ntzoufras & L. Egidi
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Thursday 4/5/2022
SAW2022 Day 1
15:00-15:30 Registration
15:30-15:40 SAW2023 Opening by Ioannis Ntzoufras
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Session 1 (Chair: I. Ntzoufras):
15:40 – 16:05 László Csató (Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary)
Evaluating the risk of tanking in tournaments with a preliminary round-robin group stage
16:05 – 16:30 Mattia Stival (University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Italy)
Missing data patterns in runners' careers: do they matter?
16:30 – 16:55 Mariza Spyropoulou (University of Kent, United Kingdom)
Bayesian Hierarchical Modelling for inter-intra seasonal effects of athletic performance
Session 2 (Chair: I. Ntzoufras):
17:25 – 17:50 Dries Goossens (Ghent University, Belgium)
Scheduling women's football in Belgium
17:50 – 18:15 Mario Guajardo (NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Norway)
A game theory approach to fairness in sports scheduling
18:15 – 18:40 Robert Bajons (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria)
Evaluating Individual Football Player Performances using a Debiased Machine Learning Approach
Session 3 (Chair: S. Drikos):
19:10 – 19:35 Marius Oetting (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Extending the Dixon and Coles model: an application to women's football data
19:35 – 20:00 Leonardo Egidi (University of Trieste, Italy)
World Cup 2022 storytelling: a fantastic prediction tale
20:00 – 20:25 Ioannis Ntzoufras (AUEB, Greece)
Model Based Performance Indicators for In-play Basketball Data
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20:25 – 20:50 Christos Marmarinos (AUEB & Kosovo National Basket, Greece)
Estimating Team Possessions in Euroleague Basketball Competition
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Friday 5/5/2022
SAW2022 Day 2
Session 4 (Chair: C. Marmarinos):
15:00 – 15:25 Michail Tsagris (University of Crete, Greece)
Skin tone of NBA players and performance statistics. Is there a relationship?
15:25 – 15:50 Anastasios Pliatsikas (AUEB Sports Analytics Group, Greece)
Predicting Shot Success in NBA
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15:50 – 16:15 Aristotelis Michailidis (AUEB Sports Analytics Group, Greece)
Pythagorean Expectation and other Machine Learning applications in Euroleague
16:15 – 16:40 Kostas Pelechrinis (University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Implicit Biases in Refereeing: Lessons from NBA Referees
Session 5 (Chair: D. Karlis):
17:10 – 17:35 Ioannis Konstantopoulos (University of Innsbruck, CEO-The Sports Footprint)
From numbers to Actions: Using Data Management to Drive Sustainability in Sports
17:35 – 18:00 Chrysovalantis Vasilakis (Bangor University, United Kingdom)
Globalized Markets for Talents: Can we predict the inequality in Football?
18:00 – 18:25 Ioannis Stylianou (University of Nicosia, Cyprus)
Game theory in strategic decision making in Volleyball
Session 6 (Chair: S. Kehagias): ​
18:55– 19:20 Christos Kontos (AUEB, Greece)
Football analytics based on player tracking data using interpolation techniques for the prediction of missing coordinates
19:20– 19:45 Brigitte Gelein (École nationale de la statistique et de l'analyse de l'information, France)
Clustering of soccer game situations in order to populate virtual environments
19:45 – 20:10 Vasilis Armatas (Olympiakos FC Academy, Greece)
Transition moments in European football: opportunities and vulnerabilities
20:10 – 20:35 Dimitris Karlis (AUEB, Greece)
Play by play data from Euro League and the theory of chaos
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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 Assistant
Argyro Damoulaki
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