Attending the prestigious MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston is one of the highlights of the year for students and faculty in the Sports Analytics program in the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics.
In a recent podcast with Women Leaders in Sports (WLS), MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference co-founder Jessica Gelman discusses how she continues to create new avenues for women to succeed in data science careers. As co-founder and CEO of Kraft Analytics Group, a leading sports and entertainment analytics firm, Gelman is an influential leader and innovator who is driving the sports analytics movement.
Listen to the Women Leaders Podcast with Gelman on the WLS website.
This past August, Syracuse University announced a unique partnership with Women Leaders in Sports that seeks to create exceptional learning opportunities for Falk College students and faculty. The collaborative effort will create mentoring, learning, fellowship, internship, and membership opportunities for students, provide access to professional memberships to faculty, and support faculty attendance at significant events such as the Women Leaders in Sports National Convention.
The partnership with WLS is one of the cornerstone relationships for the new Falk College of Sport, which will launch July 1 as the first college on a high-research activity campus (R1) to focus on sport-related disciplines.
Falk College students annually attend the MIT Sloan Sport Analytics Conference. The students who are scheduled to attend this year’s conference March 7-8 in Boston include undergraduate students Nathan Blackman, Madelyn Forster, Hunter Geise, Adelaide Gilley, Christopher Marfisi, Jarrett Markman, Jonah Soos, and Evan Vassilovski, and graduate students Justin Chambers, Camilo Espinosa, and Andrew Friberg.
At last year’s conference, sport analytics professors Shane Sanders and Justin Ehrlich presented their research that shows that when taking free throws and shot selection into account, the value of 3-point shots in the NBA is now less than 2-pointers. Sanders, Ehrlich, and sport analytics professor Adrian Simion will be attending this year’s conference.