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What's New?
(older news items here)
- I have been elected to the American Statistical Association's Board
of Directors for a 3-year term, starting 2019, as Council of Sections
representative.
- I will be giving a talk at the
Cascadia Symposium on Statistics
in Sports on August 3, 2018, in Vancouver, BC.
- I gave an invited talk at the
Fields Sports Analytics Workshop,
at the
Fields Institute in Toronto, ON, on May 24-25, 2018.
- I gave a featured talk at the
2018 SportCon in Eden Prarie, MN, on Feb 2, 2018.
- The paper
A comparison
of rating systems for competitive women's beach volleyball
as been accepted for publication in a special sports statistics issue
of the
Italian Journal of Applied Statistics.
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The Chapman & Hall/CRC book
Handbook of Statistical Methods and Analyses in Sports,
edited by me, Jim Albert, Tim Swartz and Ruud Koning,
has now been published.
I wrote a chapter on
Estimating Team Strength in the NFL
with Hal Stern.
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I am one of the developers of the new
Universal Rating System
for chess.
The project was sponsored by Grand Chess Tour, the Kasparov Chess
Foundation, and the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis.
- I am the founding head of the
Sports Analytics Laboratory at Harvard University.
The
web site
is now active.
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