Could it really be that the fans impact home court advantage? Although it seems like a myth, statistics seems to indicate that fan involvement is significant.

Graydon Gordian just posted a round up of the Sports and Labor relations panel from this morning. I’ll leave it to you to follow the link and soak in his impressions. One question regarding this discussion—how to grow the league and make it more profitable for owners—that was only briefly discussed is whether franchises are [...]

The vast majority of NBA teams lose money. This stark fact dominated the conversation at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference’s panel on sports and labor relations Friday morning. Common debates such as whether or not players’ contracts should be guaranteed or what percentage of revenue they should receive — questions that might have received further consideration had there been a players representative on the panel — were overshadowed by the question how does the entire NBA, and not just an elite group of teams, return to profitability?

In his bestselling book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell argues that success in most fields is usually accompanied by at least 10,000 hours of study. In fact, this was such a common phenomenon that he uses the term as shorthand throughout his book as a benchmark for a commitment to success. Gladwell chaired a panel at this morning’s [...]

Today the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference presents a talk called “What Separates the Best from the Rest? How the New Frontier of Brain Analytics Will Change the World of Sports” by Brian Miller and Wes Clapp of NeuroScouting. Neuroscientists at a conference dedicated to sports analytics? What gives? The Neuroscouting presentation grabs my attention, but not because [...]