By Arif Hasan
The evolution of sports science in the last several years has spurred the creation not only of analytics departments within teams, but also at colleges and university programs across the country. This gradual, but radical, shift in the way we look at sports will likely test teams in new ways as they find new data and ways to implement it.
The Great Lakes Analytics Sports Conference, hosted by the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point, gives us a peak into the new direction that analytics and data science may take sports.
Analytics has necessarily moved from teams bootstrapping Excel spreadsheets and small amounts of broad data to custom databases with enormous amounts of extremely specific data, managed by open-source programs like r and python.
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