Sports Analytics Conferences and Research Opportunities

• New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports

  • Website: https://www.nessis.org/ 

  • Location: Cambridge, MA

  • When: September, every other year

• Cascadia Symposium on Statistics in Sports

  • Website: http://www.cascadiasports.com/

  • Location: Vancouver, Canada

  • When: September, every other year

• Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Conference

  • Website: https://www.cmsaconference.com/ 

  • Location: Pittsburgh, PA

  • When: October, annually

  • Student opportunities:

    • Reproducible research competition: https://www.cmsaconference.com/research-competition 

• NFL Big Data Bowl 

  • Research competition

  • Website: https://operations.nfl.com/gameday/analytics/big-data-bowl/ and https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/nfl-big-data-bowl-2025 

  • When: October through January

• American Soccer Insights

  • Website: https://americansoccerinsights.com/ 

  • Location: Houston, TX

  • When: January, annually

  • Student opportunities:

    • Call for research proposals: https://americansoccerinsights.com/call-for-proposals/ 

• MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

  • Website: https://www.sloansportsconference.com/ 

  • Location: Cambridge, MA

  • When: March, annually

  • Student opportunities:

    • Competitions: https://www.sloansportsconference.com/competitions 

• Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) conference

  • Website: https://sabr.org/analytics 

  • When: March, annually

  • Student opportunities:

    • Case competition: https://sabr.org/analytics/case