For those who may not know, every year the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference holds the First Pitch Case Competition. The competition is designed to give top graduate students the opportunity to work with a major sports organization to analyze and evaluate their most challenging issues. This year, teams worked with Ticketmaster to explore better […]
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The highest honor at this weekend’s Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, the Alpha Award for best Analytics Innovation/Technology, was given to MLBAM for its new Statcast player tracking system which is set debut at across all 30 Major League Baseball ballparks on for Opening Day. The award, which is given to recognize the best use of […]