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2013 NESSIS

Program

  • Full conference program

Selected presentations

  • “Crossing in Soccer has a Strong Negative Impact on Scoring: Evidence from the English Premier League and the German Bundesliga”
    Jan Vecer, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
  • “State of Transition: Estimating Real-Time Expected Possession Value in the NBA with a Spatiotemporal Transition Model and Player Tracking Data”
    Dan Cervone, Harvard University
  • “The Hot Hand: A New Approach to an Old ‘Fallacy’”
    Andrew Bocskocsky, John Ezekowitz, Carolyn Stein, Harvard University
  • “Using Random Forests to Estimate Win Probability before Each Play of an NFL Football Game”
    Dennis Lock, Iowa State University
  • “Trouble with the Curve: Identifying Clusters of Pitchers using Improved Classification Techniques”
    Michael Pane, Carnegie Mellon University

Pictures

Photographs from the 2013 NESSIS

Selected videos

  • Talk by Jan Vecer
  • Talk by Dan Cervone
  • Talk by Andrew Bocskocsky, John Ezekowitz, and Carolyn Stein
  • Talk by Dennis Lock
  • Talk by Michael Pane
  • Panel Discussion

Sponsors

We kindly thank the following organizations for their support of the 2013 NESSIS:

Boston Chapter of the ASA Harvard Statistics Department ASA Section on Statistics in Sports Sports Data Hub ESPN Stats & Info RStudio Revolution Analytics

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What's New

  • The 2025 NESSIS took place on September 27, 2025.
  • Abstract submission for the 2025 NESSIS closed on July 15, 2025.
  • Advance registration for the 2025 NESSIS has closed.
  • See you at the next NESSIS in 2027!

New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports — co-chaired by Mark Glickman and Scott Evans.

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