{"id":1751,"date":"2015-03-05T12:28:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T17:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavytopspin.com\/?p=1751"},"modified":"2015-03-05T12:28:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T17:28:54","slug":"sloan-conference-presentation-on-tennis-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/05\/sloan-conference-presentation-on-tennis-analytics\/","title":{"rendered":"Sloan Conference Presentation on Tennis Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend at the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston, I gave a talk, &#8220;First Service: The Advent of Actionable Tennis Analytics.&#8221; The presentation was in three parts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The sorry state of tennis data<\/li>\n<li>Schedule optimization (based in part on <a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/28\/premier-or-international-balancing-rewards-and-draw-quality\/\">this blog post<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>The Match Charting Project (more about that in <a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/26\/the-match-charting-project\/\">this post<\/a>, among others)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The conference video-recorded all presentations, and I understand that video will be posted on the Sloan site. When it becomes available, I&#8217;ll post a link here.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, many people have asked for my slide deck:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/heavytopspin.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/firstservice-1.pptx\">First Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Jim Pagels wrote a brief piece for Forbes drawing on my talk, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jimpagels\/2015\/03\/03\/why-is-tennis-so-far-behind-other-sports-in-data-analytics\/\">which you can read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend at the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston, I gave a talk, &#8220;First Service: The Advent of Actionable Tennis Analytics.&#8221; The presentation was in three parts: The sorry state of tennis data Schedule optimization (based in part on this blog post) The Match Charting Project (more about that in this post, among others) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/05\/sloan-conference-presentation-on-tennis-analytics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sloan Conference Presentation on Tennis Analytics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elsewhere"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}