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Confirmed Speakers & Talks

1. A combined and enhanced statistical learning model for the prediction of the EURO 2024 tournament by Andreas Groll, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany​

2. Statistical Practices and Reporting Standards in Sports Science Research by Daniel Fernández, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC), Spain

3. Scheduling Youth Competitions by Dries Goossens, University of Gent, Belgium 

4. Our football analytics Story by Leonardo Egidi, University of Trieste, Italy (SAW & Short Course #1)

5. From play-by-play to scouting insights: the role of advance analytics in modern basketball, by Nikos Tsolakis & Prodromos Mpoutis, Shot Clock podcast

6. Python Meets Euroleague: Data Extraction, Insights, and Performance Projections via Simulations by Giorgos Giasemidis (Lead Data Scientist, Choreograph, London UK​ & AUEB Sports Analytics

7. Bayesian Modeling of Goal Arrival Times by Ioannis Ntzoufras (AUEB-Stats & AUEB Sports Analytics Group) 

8. Momentum Interference: A Hierarchical Framework for Modeling Tackling Ability in American Football by Ron Yurko (Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Center and Department of Statistics & Data Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

9. Leveraging Analytics for Success in Basketball Organizations: A Holistic Approach to Front Office, Coaching, and Sports Science by Marlin Myrte (Clutch Data & ESCP Business School, France)

10. Interactive Tools for Football Scouting: Improving Talent Discovery Through Dissimilarity Measures by Sehrat Emre Akhanli (Mugla Sitki Kocman University, Turkey)

11. Most Swiss-system tournaments are unfair: Evidence from chess by László Csató (Institute for Computer Science and Control (SZTAKI), Busabest, Hungary)

12. Fitting Bayesian and frequentist football models in R via the footBayes package by Roberto Macrì Demartino (University of Trieste, Italy)

13. Machine learning based statistical inference in sports analytics by Robert Bajons (Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna), Austria)

14. Data Driven Budget Optimization for Team Sports by Christos Spyropoulos (University of Piraeus, Greece)

15. Performance Factors Associated with Set Wins in Men's European Volleyball Championship Matches by Mikko Häyrinen (Finnish Institute of High Performance Sport KIHU, Jyväskylä, Finland)

16. Causal Parameter Estimation and Application on Sports Data by Stylianos Grammatikakis (AUEB Sports Analytics Group, Athens)

17. Battle of the Trenches by Paris Spiliotis (AUEB Stats, Athens)

18. Adaptive Performance Metrics in Basketball by Giannis Tsougkrianis (AUEB Stats, Greece)

19. Adaptation of Elo Ranking in Euroleague dataset by Eleni Sideri, Dimitra Alexopoulou, and, Dimitris Dallas (AUEB Stats, Athens)

20. Stefanos Doltsinis, Kaizen gaming, Greece

21. Sotiris Drikos, Physical Education and Sport Science, NKUA, Greece

22. Dimitris Karlis, Dep. of Statistics, AUEB & AUEB Sports Analytics Group, Greece

23. Vasilis Armatas, Olympiakos FC & AUEB Sports Analytics (Short Course #1)

24. Christos Marmarinos, International Scouter, Sacramento Kings & AUEB Sports Analytics (SAW & Short Course #2)

25. Paola Zuccolotto, University of Brecia (Short Course #2)

26. Marica Manisera, University of Brescia (Short Course #2)

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The list will be updated - we expect to have 20-25 presentations in SAW2025  program. 

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