Sports Analytics Conferences and Research Opportunities

• Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Camp

  • Website: https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/statistics-datascience/engagement/summer/cmsa-camp.html 

  • Location: Pittsburgh, PA

  • When: Summer, annually

    • Application deadline in February

  • Undergraduates entering their Junior or Senior year are eligible to apply for this summer research experience

• 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/ 

• Big Data Cup

  • Hockey analytics research competition

  • Website: https://stathletes.com/big-data-cup

  • When: March 16, 2026 deadline

• Open Sports Data & Analytics Conference + Hackathon

  • Website: https://sites.google.com/view/neusportsanalytics/home 

  • Location: Boston, MA

  • When: February 27-28, 2026

  • Student opportunities:

    • Hackathon: https://sites.google.com/view/neusportsanalytics/hackathon 

• MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

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

  • Location: Cambridge, MA

  • When: March, annually

  • Student opportunities:

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

    • 2026 case competition: https://www.sloansportsconference.com/first-pitch-case-competition 

• Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) conference

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

  • When: March, annually

  • Student opportunities:

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

• Connecticut Sports Analytics Symposium 

  • Website: https://statds.org/events/csas2026/index.html

  • Location: Storrs, CT

  • When: April

  • Student opportunities:

    • Data challenge (January deadline): https://statds.org/events/csas2026/challenge.html