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Location Wembley Stadium, London
Date Tuesday 20th September 2022
Time 9am - 6pm
Tickets are now closedEvent Overview
StatsBomb’s annual Conference is back for 2022, and this time we’re going to Wembley.
Expect industry leaders sharing insights from the most forward-thinking and data-driven sports organisations around the world. The research track will showcase latest innovations using StatsBomb data .
Tickets are now closed
Tickets include:
- Full access to the StatsBomb Conference
- Breakfast pastries on arrival and tea, coffee and water throughout the day
- Hot lunch
- Networking drinks reception
General admission
£325 + VAT & fees
Please note: Tickets are non-refundable
Student admission
£125* + VAT & fees (price held from 2021)
To validate your student ticket please send a copy of your student ID to conference@statsbomb.com within one week of purchasing the ticket. Any invalid student tickets will be cancelled and refunded (minus processing fees)
Speakers
Visiting the StatsBomb Conference will allow you to engage with speakers who are ahead of the curve in the world of sports analytics. Hear about actual case studies from industry leaders of forward-thinking data-driven sports organisations all around the world.
Take a look to discover the speakers confirmed for the StatsBomb Conference 2022.
Ted Knutson: StatsBomb CEO & Co-Founder
Ted worked as Head of Player Analytics for Brentford and Midtjylland, and has consulted for multiple Champions League football clubs. His areas of expertise include recruitment, data visualization, and set piece design. A founder of StatsBomb.com, he has also appeared on Sky, been published by The Guardian and Daily Mirror, and is often consulted as an expert in the application of stats and analytics to football.
John Burn-Murdoch: Chief Data Reporter, The Financial Times
John Burn-Murdoch is a columnist and the chief data reporter for the Financial Times, where he works as part of an interdisciplinary team in the newsroom using data analysis and visualisation to find and tell stories, often to very tight deadlines. For much of the last two years he led the FT’s data-driven coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic, and as of April 2022 he also writes the FT’s weekly Data Points column, which covers everything from economics, to politics, healthcare, social attitudes, climate change, economics and sport.
William Spearman: Liverpool FC Lead Data Scientist
William Spearman joined Liverpool FC in 2018 as Lead Data Scientist where he utilises spatiotemporal tracking data to support the men’s first team. Before joining Liverpool, he pioneered the concept of pitch control, and he has used physics-based modelling to construct visualisable models of open space, pass difficulty, and off-ball scoring opportunity.
Sarah Rudd: Former StatDNA
Sarah Rudd holds a BA in Computer Science and Environmental Science from Columbia University and an MBA from the University of Washington. After 6 years working at Microsoft, she decided to follow her passion for soccer and joined StatDNA as VP of Software and Analytics development. StatDNA was acquired by Arsenal FC in 2012 and became their in-house analytics department. After nearly 10 years at Arsenal, Sarah decided to leave to become VP of Analytics Technology at Blue Crow Sports Group.
Dinesh Vatvani: StatsBomb, Head of Data Science
Dinesh has led the development of StatsBomb's OBV model and the new suite of StatsBomb's xG models. He has been working in the football analytics industry for 8 years and has experience consulting for Premier League and MLS clubs along with The Times and the Premier League.
Tom Worville: RB Leipzig, Scouting Data Scientist
Tom is a scouting data scientist at RB Leipzig, having joined the club in November 2021. He has a wealth of experience within the football analytics industry, from co-founding Analytics FC, working for sports data company Opta and bringing data and numbers to the forefront of the mainstream football media as a writer for The Athletic
Sam Gregory: Inter Miami, Director of Analytics
Sam has been working in the football analytics industry for more than five years with both data companies and professional clubs. He is currently the Director of Analytics at Inter Miami and a graduate student at Victoria University studying the intersection of sports science and analytics.
Dr Will Morgan: StatsBomb, Senior Data Scientist
Will is a Senior Data Scientist at StatsBomb and retired atmospheric scientist with experience researching and modelling data across a range of different fields.
Stuart Reid: Set Piece Analyst, Platek Group of Clubs
Stuart joined the Platek Group of clubs (Spezia, SonderjyskE and Casa Pia) as Head of Set-Pieces in 2021. He joined after extensive experience working with clubs across the world to improve their output from set-pieces.
Dr Mohammad Dabbah: Head of AI, StatsBomb
Dr Dabbah is an expert in computer vision, machine learning & AI. He is currently the Head of AI at Statsbomb working on automation of data generation and collection.
Ben Torvaney: Data Scout, AC Milan
Ben has worked for AC Milan since 2020, developing data and analytics-driven products for internal use.
Jens Fjellström: Pundit and Former Swedish International
Jens is a former professional football player who became a data driven tv pundit. He's been coaching and worked with analytics at both club and national team level. Now he's building analytic tools for Discovery Networks, which they share with clubs, and use football data to support stories and outcome in games.
Rory Smith: Chief Soccer Correspondent, New York Times
Rory Smith is a journalist, broadcaster and author. He is the chief soccer correspondent of The New York Times, having taken up the role in 2016.
Javier Fernandez, Senior Data Scientist, Zelus Analytics
Javier is the former Head of Sports Analytics at FC Barcelona. He now works as a Senior Data Scientist for Zelus Analytics, leading the development of cutting-edge applications in football and basketball. Javier holds a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence and is a globally recognized leader in sports analytics.
Agenda
Research Stage
Wembley Suite
10:00 am
A New Performance Metric for Players Evaluation Based on Causality
Alessandro Cecchin
10:30 am
Contextual Expected Threat using Spatial Event Data
Gregory Everett
10:55 am
Networking Break
11:25 am
Profiling Passing in Women's Football Leagues
Dr William Morgan, StatsBomb
12:00 pm
"Estimated Player Impact" (EPI): Quantifying the Effects of Individual Players on Football Actions using Hierarchical Statistical Models
Tahmeed Tureen
12:25 pm
Lunch
1:25 pm
Using Risk Tolerance to Identify Optimal Cross Passes
Caitlan Krasinski
2:00 pm
A Deep Dive into the New Expected Goals Models
Dinesh Vatvani, StatsBomb
2:30 pm
un-xPass: Measuring Soccer Player’s Creativity
Pieter Robberechts
3:00 pm
Networking Break
4:00 pm
Automatic Quantification of Player Scanning in Soccer
Dr Mohammad Dabbah, StatsBomb
4:30 pm
Generalized Action-based Ball Recovery Model Using 360° Data
Ricardo Furbino Marques do Nascimento
5:00 pm
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Football Player Decision-Making Analysis
Michael Pulis
Lunch
Atrium
12:25 pm
Main Stage
Bobby Moore
9:30 am
Ted Knutson
StatsBomb
10:00 am
Sarah Rudd
Former StatDNA
10:30 am
Tom Worville
RB Leipzig
10:55 am
Networking Break
11:25 am
Ben Torvaney
AC Milan
12:00 pm
Jens Fjeldström
Discovery Networks
12:25 pm
Lunch
1:25 pm
Panel: The End of the Beginning: Where Does Analytics Go From Here?
TBC
2:20 pm
Sam Gregory
Inter Miami
2:50 pm
Stuart Reid
Platek Group of Clubs
3:15 pm
Networking Break
3:45 pm
William Spearman
Liverpool FC
4:15 pm
John Burn-Murdoch
Financial Times
Highlights
Research competition
Taking place in the Wembley Suite, here are the details of the selected presentations for the 2022 research competition:
Contextual Expected Threat using Spatial Event Data
Gregory Everett: AI PhD student, University of Southampton and sponsored by SentientSports
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Football Player Decision Making Analysis
Michael Pulis: AI Research Student, University of Malta
un-xPass: Measuring Soccer Player’s Creativity
Pieter Robberechts: PhD student, KU Leuven
Generalized Action-based Ball Recovery Model Using 360° Data
Ricardo Furbino: Student of Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) & Researcher at SALab (DCC-UFMG) & Hugo Rios-Neto: Football Data Scientist at Atlético Mineiro
A New Performance Metric for Players Evaluation Based on Causality.
Alessandro Cecchin: Independent researcher, Co-Founder of Renewable Dispatching s.r.l.
"Estimated Player Impact" (EPI): Quantifying the Effects of Individual Players on Football Actions using Hierarchical Statistical Models
Tahmeed Tureen: Independent Researcher & Dr. Sigrid Olthof
Media accreditation
Media Accreditation for the StatsBomb Conference 2022 is now closed.
Sponsors & exhibitors
The Sponsors Pavillion will be located within the Bobby Moore hall adjacent to the main stage.
Be sure to visit sponsors’ booths to find out more about their latest exciting developments. To read more about each sponsor, click the logos opposite
To request a sponsor and exhibitors pack, please email conference@statsbomb.com
Zone 7
Headline Sponsor
Zone 7 are a data-driven artificial intelligence system that enables high levels of athlete performance and availability.
Their services are used by clubs across football’s top leagues, including Liverpool FC, Leeds United, Valencia CF, and LAFC, which helps them with coaching and supports medical teams to reduce the risk of injuries.
Catapult
Catapult are one of the leading providers of performance analysis software and wearable technology in the football industry.
Their Matchtracker software brings together all the user’s performance data into one place, including event data, camera-based tracking, GPS, biometric, and coach or analyst tagging. The data can then be combined with multiple video angles so that game moments can be viewed in context and performance can be compared with the opposition, the user’s previous games, and between players in the team.
Rezzil
Rezzil is the world’s leading platform for developing elite athletes.
Used across the world from academy level to European League and World Cup winners. Rezzil builds resilience in athletes when it is needed most: during the last minutes of a high-pressure game.
Touchline Analytics
Touchline Analytics are industry leaders in sports data architecture and automation.
Working across multiple sports, Touchline combines all customer-owned data sets (such as StatsBomb) into a single automated and bespoke database, giving organisations a single source of truth from which they can confidently derive performance and commercial insights.
As the first ever football company to officially partner with the industry-leading BI tool Tableau, Touchline Analytics also have vast experience in data visualization and education.
Raw Stadia
Raw Stadia empowers elite sports teams to gain full knowledge and take control over the ‘players’ work floor’ by consistent data collection. Our easy-to-use testing tools and visually oriented SaaS platform will help grounds managers, sport performance managers and medical staff to create a safe working environment for the players.
Snowflake
Thousands of organisations use Snowflake’s Data Cloud to unite siloed data, discover, and securely share data, and execute diverse analytic workloads across multiple clouds. Learn more at www.snowflake.com
Visitor information
Address: Wembley Stadium, London HA9 0WS. Enter the stadium via the Main Club Wembley Reception located on the ground floor level. Please note that the stadium has a strict bag search policy and all items will be carefully inspected when entering the stadium. This may include an electronic wanding or pat-down.
Hotels
There are numerous hotels within the local area, some suggestions are listed here
Refreshments and a hot lunch will be provided for all delegates throughout the event. There will also be networking drinks for the last hour of the event. Any dietary restrictions/ allergies will be asked at the point of ticket purchase. To update your personal dietary information, please email conference@statsbomb.com
For any questions about the event, please contact Katie Slade - conference@statsbomb.com
Look back on the 2021 StatsBomb Conference
