Enhanced Speaker Lineup Set for 2nd Annual SABR Analytics Conference Presented by Bloomberg Sports

Feb. 28, 2013 - PRLog -- With just over a week to go, the 2nd Annual SABR Analytics Conference presented by Bloomberg Sports and Major League Baseball, is pleased to announce an updated  lineup of speakers for the event.

In addition to the previous announced lineup of:  Stan Kasten, President and CEO of the Los Angeles Dodgers; Jon Daniels, General Manager of the Texas Rangers; Jerry Dipoto, the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim; Rick Hahn, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Chicago White Sox; Jed Hoyer, Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Chicago Cubs; Bill James, Senior Advisor on Baseball Operations for the Boston Red Sox; Brian Kenny, and Host of MLB Network and Joe Posnanski, Senior Baseball Writer, NBC Sports,  the conference is proud to announce some additional speakers.

They include: Agent Casey Close of Excel Sports Management,  player development  officials Tyrone Brooks of the Pittsburgh Pirates; Derek Falvey of the  Cleveland Indians and Yeshayah Goldfarb of the San Francisco Giants,  and media members: Baseball-Reference.com founder Sean Forman, Rob Neyer, Editor, Baseball Nation and Dave Cameron, Editor, FanGraphs.

The schedule will consist of a combination of Guest Speakers, Panels and Research Presentations — plus the Diamond Dollars Case Competition, in which undergraduate, graduate and law school students from across the country analyze and present a real baseball operations decision.

This year's conference will also feature baseball executives from sales, marketing and finance. These executives will come together to discuss innovative ways to analyze the business of baseball and to drive revenue. The Business of Baseball Analytics session is scheduled for Saturday, March 9.

Some of the topics we are planning to cover at the SABR Analytics Conference include:

•          General Managers Panel on how analytics shapes front-office decisions

•          Business of Baseball Analytics

•          Measuring Player Performance

•          New innovations in baseball analytics

•          Player Agents — their view of analytics

•          New applications of PITCHf/x data

•          Player panel — the impact of data and information on performance

The conference will be held March 7-9 at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown. For information regarding registration, please visit http://sabr.org/analytics

ABOUT SABR


The Society for America Baseball Research is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering research and disseminating the history and record of baseball.  Founded in 1971, SABR has more than 6,000 members worldwide and has established itself as a vibrant baseball community and a premier distributor of ground breaking baseball information. SABR features 60 chapters, 27 research committees, three annual publications -- two editions of The Baseball Research Journal and The National Pastime, print and e-books, and annual conferences. For more information about SABR, go to sabr.org.

About BLOOMBERG SPORTS

Named by Mashable as one of its “Five Most Innovative Sports Brands for 2012,” by The Sports Business Journal as a Finalist for “Best In Sports Technology” in 2012 and by Fast Company Magazine as one of the “Most Innovative Companies in Sports” in 2011, Bloomberg Sports takes the technology developed by Bloomberg, the leading global provider in data  and analytics, and applies them to the vast data analysis opportunities in sports. Working with MLB.com and other partners since its launch in 2010, Bloomberg Sports fantasy products have given fans the most powerful, easy to use resources as they draft and manage their fantasy teams. Additionally, Bloomberg Sports provides a professional product that delivers Major League Baseball clubs with a secure, virtually unlimited set of analytical functions to assist them in personnel evaluation and game preparation and with a tablet application used by many professional players. Bloomberg Sports has also created products customized for broadcast use, as well as professional tools for several professional baseball organizations in Latin America and Japan. The company also has a consumer soccer product available for European football, and recently launched  “Stats Insights,”  a comprehensive blog that contains original content and analysis for the five major European football leagues as well as the NFL,NHL, MLB, and NBA, drawing on the most advanced, data-driven predictive analytics.  BSports partners in soccer include Gala Coral and Norwich City Football Club.

Contacts: Joe Favorito (Bloomberg Sports) at fatherknickerbocker1@yahoo.com  or Marc Appleman (SABR) at mappleman@sabr.org.