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43 * Sun, 7/29/2012, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM HQ-Sapphire L
Methodology for Applications in Sports — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Sports
Chair(s): James Piette, Krossover Intelligence, Inc./The Wharton School
2:05 PM Ranking Bias in the 'USA Today' Coaches Poll for the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Pavel Chernyavskiy, University of Nebraska ; Christopher Bilder, University of Nebraska
2:20 PM The College Sports Project: What Have We Learned? John Emerson, Middlebury College
2:35 PM Measuring Game Competitiveness Using Team Box Score Data Max Buot, Xavier University ; Matthew Dulle, The Kroger Co.
2:50 PM Multiple Testing Procedures for Sports Data: An Analysis of the MLB Hall of Fame Leah Jager, U.S. Naval Academy
3:05 PM Evolutionary Madness!: Applying an Evolutionary Algorithm to Optimize Team Selections for an NCAA Tournament Contest Douglas Noe, Miami University ; Geng Chen, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
3:20 PM Ranking Colleges by Categories Jerome Keating, The University of Texas at San Antonio ; Robert L Mason, Southwest Research Institute ; Ryan S Gill, University of Louisville
3:35 PM Floor Discussion



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