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Confirmed Speakers & Talks

1. Statistical models for pairwise comparison data by Nial Friel, University College Dublin, Ireland

2. Optimizing Football Squad Selection: A Multi-Objective Approach to Transfer Strategy under Budget Constraints by Soudeep Deb, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India

3. Bayesian nonparametric ranking and selection in sport by Jim Griffin, University College London, England 

4. How to measure the uncertainty of a tournament draw: The case of the UEFA Champions League by Dries Gossens, Ghent University, Belgium

5. Practical research with football clubs by Andreas Groll, TU Dortmund University, Germany

6. Sharing the Brand, Splitting the Viewers: Cross-Sport Substitution in European Basketball and the NBA Europe Dilemma by Georgios Nalbantis, University of Tübingen, Germany

7. Team Travelling Distances in the FIFA World Cup by Mario Guajardo, NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Norway

8. Protected Ranking in Men’s Professional Tennis: Epidemiological Trends and Competitive Outcomes by Jordi Cortés Martínez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

9. Low-cost tools for tracking human motion – Selected practical applications  by Arnold Baca & Philipp Kornfeind, University of Vienna, Austria

10. Beyond expected value: A context-aware framework to evaluate passing decisions in soccer by Robert Bajons, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

11. Profiling football playing styles through pitch-based passing networks and archetypal analysis by Roberto Rondinelli, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

12. Adaptive Bayesian dynamic models for football prediction using commensurate priors by Roberto Macri Demartino, University of Trieste, Italy 

13. Scouting Roles, Not Players: Probabilistic Basketball Player Archetypes for Any League by Marlin Myrte, Clutch Data & ESCP Business School, France

14. Within-game forecasting in T20 cricket and its usefulness in strategic decision making by Shobhit  Gupta, IIM Bangalore, India

15. Extending Bayesian Double Poisson Models for Football Forecasting with Match‑Level Covariates by Tahir Sheikh Badar Ud Din, University of Trieste, Italy

16. Expected Pass Value (xPV): A Holistic Framework for Evaluating Passing Situations in Soccer by Tobias Harringer, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria 

17. Two Products, One Game: Price Sensitivity in Italian Football Before Live Broadcasting (1963–1993) by Tazio Panzani, ​Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy

18. Quantifying Anticipation in the Air: A Spatiotemporal Metric for NFL Pass Plays by Paris Spiliotis, AUEB & Allwyn, Greece

19. When Luck Looks Like Skill: Evidence on Decisive-Event Bias by Andrei Smirnov, HSE University, New Economic School, Russia

20. Bayesian Modelling for Anti-Doping Analysis by Pigi-Eva Vyltanioti, AUEB, Greece

21. Predicting Peak Performance: A Statistical Analysis of Major Marathon Winning Times (1897-2018) by Thodoris Sagias, AUEB Dept of Statistics, Greese 

22. NBA Draft Predictions for International Prospects by Dimitra Alexopoulou, Dimitris Dallas & Eleni Sideri, AUEB, Greece

23. Keep it simple: Evidence from Football Modelling in Major European Leagues by Leonidas Ntrekos, AUEB, Greece​​

24. Argyro Elisavet Manoli, University of Bergamo, (Short Course #1)

25. Gabriele Murtas, University of Bergamo, (Short Course #1)

26. Federico Mangiò, University of Bergamo, (Short Course #1)

27. Vasilis Armatas, AEK FC & AUEB Sports Analytics (Short Course #2)

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

29. Sotiris Drikos, University of Athens (Short Course #2)

30. Ioannis Ntzoufras, AUEB Statistics and AUEB Sports Analytics (Short Course #3)

31. Dimitris Karlis, AUEB Statistics and AUEB Sports Analytics (Short Course #3) 

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The list will be updated - we expect to have 20-25 presentations in SAW2026 program. 

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