There are two worlds that exist at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. There is the world of the celebrity profile and the world of groundbreaking research
A crowd tries to push its way through double doors. The room is already at capacity and men in blue and gray suits are left peeking in, hoping to catch a glimpse of one of the many NBA related research paper talks. It’s just after lunch and people are trying to find their way. This talk seems interesting, and the more people that stand outside the more people want to join. They want to know what’s going on inside. They want to see what all the fuss is about. I just want to learn something at this point in the day.
The crowd is informed there is an overflow room next door. We won’t be able to watch the presentation in person; we will get to watch it on any number of televisions at each corner of the room. But few people pay attention after the move to the next room. There are better things to do, and now that you’re not included in the club inside the room, the talk loses interest from the outside. This talk only matters if you’re there in person, if you’re one of the lucky people who get to rub shoulders with one another. Also, this talk isn’t given by anyone whose name you’d recognize on the street. Robert Ayer may be a graduate of the MIT Sloan Business School, but he’s not celebrity writer, no talk-show personality, he’s no professional athlete and he certainly doesn’t own a franchise. So who cares what he has to say? Right? Well, that’s the misconception.
Ayer says more in his short presentation about analytics and how they can be used than any of the panels on the first day of the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. This is where the good work is being done. These talks, these papers, they’re the gems. This is where the action happens.
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