The conference will begin with a virtual program on April 1, featuring student research presentations, a hackathon, and discussions with leaders from the sports industry.

On April 2, the conference will continue with an evening panel at WOSU.

The conference will conclude on Saturday, April 3, with our in-person event featuring the student poster fair, student research presentations, hackathon finalists, and insights from professionals working in sports analytics.

 Call for student presentations will be available in late October with submission deadlines in March. 

Our guest list will be updated throughout the year. Currently scheduled guests include Brian Burke of ESPN. 

Our conference is free to attend and open to university students of all levels. We provide students with opportunities to present original research, develop marketable data and analytical skills, and learn directly from professionals working in sports and sports analytics. We are able to offer the conference at no cost thanks to the many volunteer hours contributed by our students and the financial and administrative support of SSI. Additional financial support is provided by the Department of Economics, Fisher College of Business, and Ohio State alumnus Greg Strizek.

2026

Virtual Panels and Speakers:

• College Sports Roster Management: Noah Henderson (Loyola Chicago / College Front Office); Dan Monteroso (IU Indianapolis); LJ Rose (University of Miami Basketball).

• Virtual interview: Lauren Poe (ESPN).

• Soccer Analytics: Vanni Di Febo (The Football Association); Julian Sfeir (Aztec Data Hub).

• Virtual interview: Matt Edwards (HUDL).

• Virtual interview: Sam Schwartzstein (Prime Video / Amazon).

In Person Panels and Speakers:

• Investing in Women's Sports: Allison Howard (Cleveland WNBA); Thayer Lavielle (The Collective); Dawn Stewart (Greater Columbus Sports Commission).

• Ohio State Athletics Analytics: Matthew Bartlebaugh (Ohio State Athletics); Paul Jones (Ohio State Athletics); Eddie Kendralla (Ohio State Athletics).

• CFB Rankings: Bill Connelly (ESPN).

• Young Professionals Panel: James Kellon (Cleveland Cavaliers); Matt Kendig (Cleveland Cavaliers); Tavion Sims (NBA).

• Baseball Analytics: Katie Krall (Northwestern University); Trey Lake (Sports Info Solutions); Alex Vigderman (Sports Info Solutions).

• Closing interview: Michael Mulvihill (FOX Sports).

2025

Virtual speakers:

• Madeleine Want (Fanatics)

• Adam Vonder Haar (SumerSports)

• Ben Alamar (Apple).

   

In- Person Panels and Speakers

• Sports Info Solutions: James Weaver (Sports Info Solutions); Alex Vigderman (Sports Info Solutions).

• Software and database support: Michelle Rock (Cleveland Cavaliers); Seth Brugler (Chicago Cubs); Emaly Vatne (The Ohio State University); Matt Vatne (The Ohio State University).

• Projections with limited data: Quinn Maclean (SumerSports); Todd Worly (former CFL scout).

• Esports: Ben Nissim (Esports Engine); John Price (The Ohio State University); Charlie Cavallaro (The Ohio State University).

• Fan experience analytics: Stacy McGranor (San Jose Sharks); Gareth Jobling (Cleveland Cavaliers); Grace Morris (Columbus Blue Jackets).

• Keynote: Parker Fleming.

2024

Virtual interviews and Presenters: 

• Katie Krall (Hawk-Eye Innovations)

• Katerina Wu (Pittsburgh Penguins) 

• Dean Oliver (Basketball on Paper)

• Eric Eager (SumerSports)

In-Person Panels and Speakers:

• Columbus Crew Championship Winning Analytics: Marshall Bushnell (Columbus Crew); Alex Mysiw (Columbus Crew); Callum McCaskie (Columbus Crew); Chris Shenberger (Columbus Crew).

• Football Analytics: Amelia Probst (PFF); Tej Seth (SumerSports); Meyappan Subbaiah (NFL).

• Player tracking and data talk: Neil Johnson (Houston Rockets).

• Basketball Analytics: Denise Bradford (Detroit Pistons); Neil Johnson (Houston Rockets); Kyle Davis (formerly Ohio State Basketball).

• Keynote: Brian Burke (ESPN)

2023

Virtual Guest Speakers and Panelists

• Women's Basketball: Sara Ziegler (The New York Times); Aaron Barzilai (Her Hoop Stats); Calvin Wetzel (freelance basketball journalist); Mark Schindler (WNBA / Cerebro Sports).

• College Football: Bill Connelly (ESPN); Parker Fleming (Sumer Sports); Kelley Ford (KFordRatings); Matt Edwards (StatsBomb).

• Friday closing conversation: Eric Eager (Sumer Sports); Thomas Dimitroff (Sumer Sports / former Atlanta Falcons GM).

In-Person Speakers and Panels:

• Keynote: Sarah Bailey (Los Angeles Rams).

• Sports Business: Canaan Campo (Cleveland Cavaliers); Zach Konno (Cleveland Cavaliers); Kate Nushart (Ohio State Athletics); Rachel Huffman (Haslam Sports Group).

• Individual talks: Neil Johnson (Houston Rockets); Greg Strizek (Strategic Analytics).

• Football: Sarah Bailey (Los Angeles Rams); Mike Cetta (Cleveland Browns); Eric Eager (Sumer Sports); Parker Fleming (Sumer Sports).

2021

Speakers and Panels (Mostly Virtual)

• Pre-conference guest: David Griffin (New Orleans Pelicans).

• Elam Ending presentation: Nick Elam (Ball State University).

• Ohio State Athletics: Carey Hoyt (Ohio State Athletics); Katie Nushart (Ohio State Athletics); Andrew Olinger (Ohio State Athletics).

• Workshops: Jim Albert (Bowling Green State University); Asmae Toumi (PursueCare / Hockey-Graphs).

• Esports: Adam Rubin (Pistons GT); Claire Kaido (OS NYC).

• Jobs in sports analytics: Justin Brands (Miami Marlins); Mark Edwards (Cincinnati Reds); Zach Feldman (NFL Next Gen Stats).

• Football: Eric Eager (PFF); Cade Massey (Wharton / Massey-Peabody); Rufus Peabody (Unabated Sports / Massey-Peabody).

• Hockey: Alison Lukan (Seattle Kraken / ROOT Sports); Namita Nandakumar (Seattle Kraken); Katerina Wu (Pittsburgh Penguins).

• Sports Analytics in the Media: Vince Doria (former ESPN); Alison Lukan (Seattle Kraken / ROOT Sports); Sara Ziegler (FiveThirtyEight).

• Featured conversations: Bill Zito (Florida Panthers); Rick Spielman (Minnesota Vikings).

2020

Virtual Conference Speakers and Panelists

• Baseball Analytics with R workshop: Jim Albert (Bowling Green State University).

• Hockey: Dani Chu (Seattle Kraken); Alison Lukan (freelance hockey analyst); Zac Urback (Columbus Blue Jackets); Sam Ventura (Pittsburgh Penguins / Carnegie Mellon University).

• Ohio State Athletics: Dan DeLucia (Ohio State Baseball); Brad Goldberg (Ohio State Baseball); Nick Domicone (Ohio State Sports Science); Riley Ross (Ohio State Wrestling); Kyle Davis (Ohio State Men's Basketball).

• Sports Business: Ryan Chenault (Columbus Blue Jackets); Shelly Cayette Weston (Cleveland Cavaliers); Joseph Moeller (Cleveland Browns); Joe Odoguardi (Ohio State Athletics).

• Private Companies / Consulting: Greg Strizek (Strategic Analytics); Justin Kubatko (StatMuse); Meghan Chayka (Stathletes).

• Basketball: Neil Johnson (ESPN Analytics); Justin Kubatko (StatMuse); Seth Partnow (The Athletic); Andre Snellings (ESPN).

• Baseball: Jim Albert (Bowling Green State University); Walter King (Las Vegas Raiders); Katie Krall (Cincinnati Reds); Keith Woolner (Cleveland Indians).

• Football: Josh Hermsmeyer (FiveThirtyEight); Sarah Bailey (Los Angeles Rams); Eric Eager (PFF); Zach Feldman (NFL Next Gen Stats).

• Analytics in Media: Alison Lukan (freelance hockey analyst); Sara Ziegler (FiveThirtyEight); Josh Hermsmeyer (FiveThirtyEight); Brian MacDonald (ESPN); Neil Johnson (ESPN Analytics); Seth Partnow (The Athletic).

2026

Jiho Choi (The Ohio State University); Bao Nguyen (Gettysburg College); Tang Tang (Carnegie Mellon University) Sports Info Solutions Hackathon Finals

Philip Heu (University of Minnesota) How Does Offensive Line Pressure Rate Impact Quarterback Performance?

Madelyn Forster, Liam Roberts, Hunter Geise, and Justin Ehrlich (Syracuse University) Asymmetric Hot Hand Effects Across Gender in Elite Competitive Golf

Shangshan Chen (Beijing Sports University) Technological Enframing in Sport: Rewriting Athletic Subjectivity from Gladiators to Augmented Sport

Anirudh Sengupta (Ardrey Kell High School) Using Markov Chains to Model Intentional Fouling in College Basketball

Theo Au-Yeung (Rice University) Arsenal+: Quantifying the Effects of Pitch Arsenal Diversity

John Bancone (Dartmouth College) The Role that social media plays in Major League Baseball

Tristan Hoh (The Ohio State University) Sports Betting in the U.S.: Predictors and Patterns around Recent Widespread Legalization

Neil Sampath (The Ohio State University) Sports-related Serious Head Injuries, While Growing Up: A Survey Data Analysis

Yijun Wang (The Ohio State University) Momentum In Men’s Singles Badminton

Zach Fogt, Irfan Khan, and Alex Wheat (The Ohio State University) An Assessment of Major League Baseball Lineup Changes as a Response to the Hot Hand

Aiden Gurvitch (Syracuse University) Quantifying the Five Tools of Baseball

Kevin Wang (The Ohio State University) Predicting NCAA Division I College Football Outcomes Using Machine Learning Models with Rolling Game Features

Arihant Aneja, Seungmin Oh, and Elijah Yoon (The Ohio State University) Middle-Infield Dilemma for the Cleveland Guardians

Jake Holfinger (The Ohio State University) Is a Goalkeeper’s Lateral or Depth Positioning More Effective at Preventing Goals in Soccer?

Owen Newton (Robert Morris University) Identifying Archetypes of NHL Lines using xGoal, Possession, and Face-off Metrics

John Park (The Ohio State University) Economic Impact of Legalized Sports Betting on College Athletic Revenue

Cole Rajaratnam and Marshall Benton (The Ohio State University) Efficiency vs Seeding: Identifying NCAA Tournament Overperformers

Eshan Shingledecker (The Ohio State University) Relative Athletic Score and the NFL Draft

Yiheng Wu (West Virginia University) Margin Based Modeling and Probability Calibration for NCAA Tournament Prediction

Oliver William and Alexander Poppov (The Ohio State University) The Shifts Analysis: Impact to the 2023 MLB Shift Rule Changes

Ryan Sadler (The Ohio State University) Do Stars or Depth Matter More in the NBA Playoffs? A Tier-Based Performance Analysis

Gia Bao Nguyen (Robert Morris University) Modeling the Big Six Effect on Away Comebacks in the English Premier League

Naveen Elliott and William Sorg (The Ohio State University) Win Probabilities in Track: A Bayesian Approach to Modeling Athlete Performance

Alexander Williams (Carnegie Mellon University) Stop Averaging Probabilities: De-biasing EPA and WPA in the NFL

2025

Ashleigh Prugh (Georgia Institute of Technology) Pre-Snap Motion and Target Probability

Omar Al Batawi (Franklin University) The Impact of Player Performance Analytics on Team Success in Professional Basketball

Jack Pamukci (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Maximizing Betting Profitability Through Predictive Modeling in European Football: A Feature-Driven Approach

Ariel Sheynzon (University of Waterloo); Steven Tohme (Wilfrid Laurier University) The Pep Guardiola Effect

Hunter Geise, Collin Kneiss, and Justin Ehrlich (Syracuse University) Partner Effects and Performance: Exploring Pairing Dynamics in Professional Golf

Rafe Burns (Syracuse University) Evaluating the Influence of NHL Pre-Draft Pathways on Career Outcomes

Taryn Fuller and Natany Felix Guimaraes (Lewis-Clark State College) The Presence of Cyberbullying on Athlete Instagram Accounts

Charles Benfer and Ethan Sax (Auburn University) Using Predictive Modeling to Influence Transfer Portal Acquisitions and Pitcher Improvement Plans

Paul Fabian Raj (Franklin University) Behind the Bat: Unveiling Caste’s Hidden Impact on India’s National Obsession with Cricket through Data Analytics

Jake Berard (The Ohio State University) An Analysis of Ticket Pricing Strategies for Stadium Events

Gavin Anderson (Syracuse University) How to Build the Perfect Modern MLB Closer

Jacob Kaufman (The Ohio State University) Survival or Stagnation? Examining the Effect of Parachute Payments on Competitive Balance

John Park (The Ohio State University) League Scoring Strategies and Their Influence on ISO: Comparing MLB and KBO

Adam Gehr (Robert Morris University) Evaluating Effectiveness in MLB Relief Pitchers

Josh Knapp (Robert Morris University) Fast-Track to Glory: An Analysis of Instant Quarterback Success on Rookie Deals

Matt Kendig (The Ohio State University) Analysis of the ABS System in the MiLB

Naveen Elliott (The Ohio State University) Building an MLS Trade Machine

Josh Avram (Saint Ann's School) The Fan Effect

Bryce Pearlstein (The Ohio State University) Signing Day to Draft Day: An Empirical Analysis of High School Football Recruiting and NFL Draft Results

Marshall Benton and Aadit Keswani (The Ohio State University) Lineup Optimization

Luke Snavely (Robert Morris University) Clustering MLB Hitters off their Two-Strike Approaches

Taleen Boman, Sean Henderson, and Emaly Vatne (The Ohio State University); Matthew Vatne (Case Western Reserve University) Analyzing the Effects of Travel Time on NCAA Softball Hitting Performance Per Series

William Sorg (The Ohio State University) Improving Boston Marathon Time Predictions with Random Forest Models

Caleb Woessner (The Ohio State University) Investing in the Trenches: The impact of Offensive Line Draft and Salary Investment on Offensive Efficiency

Kiran Ravichandran and Augustus Thomas (College of Wooster) Evaluating our Selection Framework for Recommending Artistic Gymnastics Teams to the Paris 2024 Olympics

2024

Grant Mylen (The Ohio State University) Masters Prediction Tool

Jessica Fackler, Jameson Bodenburg, and Adam Fontana (Syracuse University) Analytics and Injury Prevention of Major League Baseball Position Players

Jethro Ronald Lee (Northeastern University) Success Probabilities in Field Hockey with Machine Learning

Ethan Fahimi and Dilan SriDaran (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) OPTI-GOAL: Using Optimization to Beat 99.995% of Fantasy Premier League Managers Worldwide

Amrit Vignesh (Seminole High School) Quantifying Aggressiveness in NFL QBs Using Air Yards Over Expected (AYOE) With Trust Factors

Atul Venkatesh (Dartmouth College) PAVing the way for the future: A metric for determining player value and evaluating trades in the National Football League

Daniel Baris (Syracuse University) MLB Pitchers and the Hot Hand

Carter Strauss, Aidan Flood, and Caden Lippie (Syracuse University) Efficiency and Strategy in Basketball Betting Markets

Rohan Tummala (The Nueva School) Using Monte Carlo Simulations to Predict NBA Player Props

Andrew Kang (Rice University) Closing Down Spaces: From Soccer Pitches to NFL Gridirons

Arnav Jain (Edgewood Jr/Sr High School) Quantifying the Efficacy of a Novel Ocular Injury Apparatus

Dylan Taxer (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo) Invisible Walls: Elucidating the Role of Institutional Discrimination In Maintaining Unequal Opportunity in Sport

Alexis Willing (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo) Cultural Normalization of Risk?: Exploring Brain Injury in the National Football League using Sociocultural Analysis

John Strzalka (The Ohio State University) Childhood sport involvement and its implications for occupational success in adulthood

Echo Joyce (The Ohio State University) Queer Experiences in Sport over the Life Course: Patterns and realized costs and benefits

Emma Richardson (Bowling Green State University) The Black Box of College Athletics: The intentional communication gaps in decision making

Rohini Kumar (The Ohio State University) Sport-Related Injuries over the Life Course: Risk Factors and Trends

Makenna Meisenbach (Siena Heights University) The Effect of Different Music Genres on Running Performance During The Astrand Treadmill Test

Jake Berard (The Ohio State University) Auction Ticket Pricing: Enriching Strategies to Combat High Volume Ticket Scalping for Sporting Events

Jaden Shah (The Ohio State University) MMA Meta-Analysis: Evolution, Comparisons, and Tactical Insights from UFC Fight Data

Andrew Kramer (The Ohio State University) Examining MLB Draft Pick Values: Competitive Balance, Compensation, and the Lottery

Jack Rogers (University of Minnesota) Optimizing NFL Survivor Pool Strategies: A Simulation and Machine Learning Approach

Julian Zapata-Hall (The Ohio State University) College Basketball: An In-Depth Study of the Foul Up 3 Dilemma

Kai Franke (University of Minnesota) Reevaluating Catcher Blocking Models

Brennen Bruch (University of Minnesota) Hockey pinch

Brogan Berkey (Robert Morris University) An Analysis of Team Construction in the National Hockey League

Charles Hart (University of Minnesota) Analyzing Wide Receiver Corps in the NFL

CJ Cliff (University of Massachusetts Boston) Examining the effect of ideologies on the United States and European youth soccer structures

David Hrusovsky (Bowling Green State University) Every High School Baseball Field in Ohio

Jack Wain (University of Minnesota) Connecting Team Hitting and Pitching Output: Which Factors Are Most Important?

Luke Strassburg (University of Minnesota) Predicting MLB Team Performance From Free Agent Patterns

William Sorg (The Ohio State University) Comparing the Accuracy of High School Football Recruiting Rankings

2023

Águst Pálamson Morthens (KTH Royal Institute of Technology); Sebastian Levander (University of Gothenburg); Tim Keller (University of Basel) Who keeps track of their marking assignments? Evaluating the performance of defenders in soccer by measuring their mistakes.

Mia Napolitano (California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo) Evaluating Minor League Pay Based on Modern Philosophies: A Follow-Up Analysis

Kyle Galsky (University of Minnesota) Is there a Winning Formula in the NHL?

Ryan Brill (University of Pennsylvania) Entropy and March Madness

Tej Seth (University of Michigan) Hack-a-Sack: Putting Defenders in Positions to Get to the Quarterback

Greta Warmbier (The Ohio State University) Country Club Pricing from an Economic Lens

Alex Smith (Brock University) Women in Leadership and its Effects on Women Athletes

John Strzalka (The Ohio State University) Sports Participation and Adults' Alcohol Use

Zeke Bao (The Ohio State University) The use of performance enhancing drugs in the NBA

Gavin Hartzell (The Ohio State University) Sports on Wall Street: A Statistical Analysis

Naveen Elliott and Matt Kendig (The Ohio State University) Evaluating '23 NFL Pass Rush Prospects Based on Physical Metrics

Kai Franke (University of Minnesota) Using Predicted Run Value to Evaluate Team and Division Strength

Yixuan Fang (The Ohio State University) Gender equality in the Olympic Games

Jack Rogers (University of Minnesota) Re-evaluating the Way We Measure Baserunning with Bases Taken Over Expected (BTOE)

Isaac Blumhoefer (University of Minnesota) MLB Pitch Comparison Tool

Jackson Balch (University of Minnesota Twin Cities) Success of Steal Probability Calculator

Laryssa Hedgecock (The Ohio State University) Big Data Bowl Experience

John Platt (Denison University) Statistical Equity in Ohio Cross Country Competition

Shreya Kodi (The Ohio State University) The Evolution of the Baseball on the Game Performance

2022

Undergraduate Research Fair only. Ohio State did not host a Sports Analytics Conference in 2022.

Adelyn Arens (The Ohio State University) Sports participation and parent-child feelings of closeness

Raghdah Zakariya (York University) Trauma-and-Violence-Informed-Sport for Development (TVISFD) approach within the work of practitioners and scholars in the sport-for-development (SFD) field.

Shivani Iyer (Muhlenberg College) The Use of Helmets in Women's Lacrosse

Cody Wang (University of Toronto) Access to playing fields in rugby and Cricket

Hannah Laube (Bowling Green State University) Title IX from the Prospective of Former Female Athletes

Dylan Saleh (Linnaeus University) How Former Elite Swimmers Experience the process of Dropout During Sports High School

Michael Szczepkowski (The Ohio State University) Paying for popularity: Examining the link between Twitter followers and salary in MLB

Mary Amico (Miami University) Miami University's Coaching History and student-athlete leadership in the Football Program

2021

Jacob Rutan (The Ohio State University) Let's Make Change

Justin Bobby (The Ohio State University) The Effect of the Rooney Rule on NFL Coaches

Carleen Markey (Purdue University); Nayan Patel (The Ohio State University) Identifying Archetypes in Women’s Hockey

Kaitlin Ratcliff, Cheyenne Petersen, Dustin Epstein, Julia Illecki, Rusi Dong, and Kaitlin Pericak (University of Illinois) Access and Barriers to Mental Health Resource Information in the NCAA Power 5 Conference Schools

Greta Warmbier (The Ohio State University) Batting Effectiveness

Jacob Skor (The Ohio State University) The Impact of College for MLB Draftees

Emily Nothnagle (The Ohio State University) Sport Participation and the Development of Grit

Phanawn Bailey, Maurice Beavers, Scottie Ethington, and Will Simpson (Otterbein University) DEI in DIII Athletics

Mallie Lang (The Ohio State University) How much are 4 and 5 Star Football Recruits Worth?

Jack Hackes (The Ohio State University) Diversity of Golf with a Focus on African American Communities

Vinnie Costanzo (The Ohio State University) Player Value by Position in MLB

Adelyn Arens (The Ohio State University) Do You Have to be Rich to be an Athlete?

Riley Jenkins (The Ohio State University) Exploring MLB Attendance Based on Salary of the Highest Paid Player on each Team

Ethan Horton (The Ohio State University) Ranking the Best No Hitters since 2015

Shawn Sato (The Ohio State University) Predicting Signability: Modeling Athlete Behavior with the MLB Draft

Max Caruso (The Ohio State University) Hard Hit or Where You Hit

Luke Dinan and Benjamin Klein (The Ohio State University) Predicting MLB Home Runs by Ballpark Dimensions

Samuel Borgemenke (The Ohio State University) The Symbiotic Relationship of Individual and Team Success

Chenxuan Zhou (The Ohio State University) How does the payroll for each position influence seasonal points for England premier league

Nicholas Ho (Arizona State University); Adhvaith Vijay (University of California, Los Angeles); Sifan Tao (University of Virginia) Modeling Stochastic Soccer Game Dynamics using Potential Functions

Cole Bartemes (The Ohio State University) Effects of Fan Attendance and Gambling on the NFL

Viren Gadkari (The Ohio State University) Feature Extraction for NBA MVPs: What makes a player the most valuable?

Yingzhe Guo and Jack Romer (The Ohio State University) The correlation between NCAA Division I FBS teams season winning percentages and their number of In-state recruits

Patrick Tiernan (The Ohio State University) The Value of a Touchback in the NFL

Cole Wagner (The Ohio State University) When the Numbers Lie: Why the Pac-12 Flourished and the Big Ten Flopped in the 2021 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament

Junzhe (Joe) Zhou (The Ohio State University) The effect of fan presence on the home court advantage and the variance in team performance in NBA games

Yichao Ma, Jeremy Mack, Zeyu Lou, Tianyun Liu, and Yongbo Lu (The Ohio State University) Factors the affect winning percentage in the NBA

2020

Callie DeCort (The Ohio State University) How Cost of Attendance Stipends are Creating New Precedents in NCAA Athletics.

Zach Feldman (The Ohio State University) NFL Expected Completion Probability: Modeling passes in the NFL with publicly available data and reproducible research.

Nayan Patel (The Ohio State University) A Model for Predicting D1 NCAA Hockey Games.

Adam Sichel (The Ohio State University) The Economic and Social Effects of Legalized Sports Gambling.

Corey Taylor (The Ohio State University) Regression Discontinuities in the NFL Draft.

Jasmine Toorchen (The Ohio State University) Study of Track Surface Type on Injury and Death in New York Horse Racing.

Brooke Williams (The Ohio State University) Predicting Free Throws in the NBA.

Alexander Williams, Ben Clarke, and Seth Brugler (The Ohio State University) MAYFIELD: Machine Learning Algorithm for Yearly Forecasting Indicators and Estimation of Long-run Player Development.

Ben Howell (University of Texas) Projecting from the KBO to MLB

Sam Stankivicz (The Ohio State University) Inefficiencies in Veteran MLB Contracts

Noah Thurm (Georgetown University) Controlling Launch angle to Limit Damage

Matthew Lehman (University of Chicago) Saving Free Agency: Analyzing the Modern Major League Baseball Labor Market

Max Caruso (The Ohio State University) Was the 2020 Cincinnati Reds Offense Unlucky

Brett Stowell (Xavier University) WAR Ball: MLB War Optimization with Budgetary Constraints

Red Li (The Ohio State University) Applicable Methods in Measuring the Baseball Ability of a Left-Handed Catcher

Nayan Patel (The Ohio State University) Using Shot Tracking and Transitional Play Data to Quantify the Systemic Differences Between Men's and Women's Hockey

Jacob Eckert (The Ohio State University) Salary Cap Allocation By Position: A Function of Year and Success

Brad Behan (Michigan State University) Machine Learning Approach to Predict NHL Scoring

Quang Nguyen (Loyola University Chicago) Poisson Modeling and Predicting English Premier League Goal Scoring

Isaac Spear (University of Pennsylvania) The Quarterback and the Situation

Alexander Williams, Ben Clarke, and Seth Brugler (The Ohio State University) MAYFIELD: Machine Learning Algorithm for Yearly Forecasting Indicators and Estimation of Long-run Player Development

Hunter Green (The Ohio State University) Value of an Interception in the NFL

Patrick Smith (The Ohio State University) The Impact of Temperature on the NFL

Becca Skolnick, Tamara Dzolic, and Redeit Habtegebriel (Denison University) Finding the Next Defensive Player

Aidan Corey (The Ohio State University) Fantasy Football Consistency Analysis

Hong_Jui Shen and WenYi Shi (Denison University) Linear Regression for Basketball Team Scores Analysis

Cole Wagner (The Ohio State University) The Impact of Conference Tournament Momentum on NCAA Tournament Success

Chenchen Zhou, Yingyan Ma, and Yuliang Li (The Ohio State University) The Effect of the “Hot Hand” in NBA Games

Cecily Yeung and Meilin Hou (The Ohio State University) The Impact of Foreign Born Players in China Basketball Association

Swarup Ranjan Behera (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India) Performance Analysis of Batsman against Spin Bowling and Fast Bowling in Cricket