Conference Program

Link to program

Talks and panels in room 'Ada Lovelace'.
Company exhibition and refreshments in room 'Ljusgården'. (close to 'Ada Lovelace')
Company hands-on session and refreshments at evening June 2 at Scandic Frimurarehotellet, room Pelarsalen.
Lunches at 'Universitetsklubben'.

Speakers and panelists

Invited football session

  • Jesse Davis (KU Leuven)
  • Ola Lidmark Eriksson (Football Analytics Sweden)
  • Pieter Robberechts (KU Leuven)
  • John Wall (Columbus Crew)

Research track

  • Kseniia Buzko, Amir Nazemi, David A. Clausi, Yuhao Chen
    Ice Hockey Action Recognition via Contextual Priors
  • Priyansh Gupta, Mikael Vernblom, Niklas Carlsson, Patrick Lambrix
    A Gaussian Mixture Model Approach for Characterizing Playing Styles of Ice Hockey Players
  • Evan Iaboni, Sebastian Negulescu, Miles Pitassi, Fauzan Lodhi, Tim Brecht
    Individual Puck Possessions Part I: Frequency, Duration, and Distance Travelled
  • Evan Iaboni, Sebastian Negulescu, Miles Pitassi, Amir Nazemi, Jerrin Bright, Vasyl Chomko, David A. Clausi, Sven Dickinson, Tim Brecht
    Position Paper: New Views of Shots - Towards Measures of Net Visibility and Reachability
  • Fauzan Lodhi, Sebastian Negulescu, Miles Pitassi, Evan Iaboni, Tim Brecht
    Individual Puck Possessions Part II: Speed Bursts and Possession Times within Teams
  • Rodney Paul, Nick Riccardi, Hunter Kuchenbaur
    Dropping the Gloves, Driving the Play? Reassessing the Role of Fighting in Modern NHL Games

Community notes

  • Louis Boulet
    Merging Shot Data to Measure Player Importance to Team's Offensive Flow
  • Evan Lawing
    xReboundsPlus, Creating a Statistic to Predict Rebound Quality
  • Lynn LeVatte, Christina Philipps, Shaun Ranni, Sarah Timmons
    Exploring Leadership and Cultural Training Experiences of Ice Hockey Coaches: Lessons Learned from Nova Scotia

Student competition

  • Daniel Griffiths, Piper Moskow (Syracuse University)
    Gaining Momentum: Uncovering Hidden Scoring Dynamics in Hockey through Deep Neural Sequencing and Causal Modeling
  • Yanjie Lyu, Qingxuan Cui, Huaide Liu, Han Xia, Yi Yang (Linköping University)
    Identifying and Analyzing SHL Ice Hockey Match Styles Based on Event Data Aggregation and K-Means Clustering
  • Arun Ramji, Ethan Batiuk (University of Waterloo)
    A Novel Approach to Quantifying Zone Exits
  • Kiran Roye (Ossining High School)
    A Machine Learning Approach to Score Passes Based on Their Offensive Contribution

Program

June 2

11:30-13:00 Registration and lunch, set up for companies

13:00-13:15 Welcome by LINHAC

13:15-14:30 Panel – Hockey Analytics in European Clubs
Miika Arponen (Ässät Pori), Martin Lundholm (Skellefteå AIK), Karl Malmquist (Linköping Hockey Club), Erik Lignell (HC Fribourg-Gottéron SA)

14:30-14:45 break

14:45-15:45 Talks - Industry product talks by industry collaborators

  • 14:45-14:55 49ing
  • 14:55-15:10 Bearmind
  • 15:10-15:25 KINEXON
  • 15:25-15:35 Spiideo

15:35-15:45 break

15:45-16:15 Talk - Jesse Davis (KU Leuven), A common data format for football (soccer) match data (online)

16:15-16:45 Talk - Andreas Hänni (49ing) and Olof Simander (Linköping University), LLMs and hockey databases

16:45-17:00 break

17:00-18:15 Panel – Industry
Tom Bertrand (Bearmind), Michael Elmer (KINEXON), Leo Girod (Sportcontract), Andreas Hänni (49ing), Freddy Sjögren (Freddie Sjögren Consulting AB), Morgan Zeba (Spiideo)

19:00-22:00 Hands-on session and reception at Scandic Frimurarehotellet

June 3

10:30–11:00 Talk - Andreas Hänni (49ing), Analytics for officiating in the Swiss League

11:00–11:30 Talk - Adam Almqvist Andersson and Johan Andersson (Svenska Ishockeyförbundet/Swedish Ice Hockey Association), Examples of concrete hockey analytics 

11:30-12:30 lunch

Invited football session

12:30-13:00 Talk - John Wall (Columbus Crew), National Team Case Jamaica - How to create sustainable success with succession planning and purpose 2022-2024

13:00-13:30 Talk - Pieter Robberechts (KU Leuven), Evaluating Sports Analytics Models: Challenges, Approaches & Lessons Learned

13:30-14:00 Talk - Ola Lidmark Eriksson (Playmaker AI)

14:00-15:00 Panel - Sports analytics in use
Tom Bertrand (Bearmind), Ola Lidmark Eriksson (Playmaker AI), Albin N Maelum (Stretch on Sense), Devin Pleuler (Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment)

15:00–15:30 Break

Research talks

  • 15:30-15:55 Evan Iaboni, Sebastian Negulescu, Miles Pitassi, Amir Nazemi, Jerrin Bright, Vasyl Chomko, David A. Clausi, Sven Dickinson, Tim Brecht
    Position Paper: New Views of Shots - Towards Measures of Net Visibility and Reachability
    Preprint (not final version)
  • 15:55-16:20 Priyansh Gupta, Mikael Vernblom, Niklas Carlsson, Patrick Lambrix
    A Gaussian Mixture Model Approach for Characterizing Playing Styles of Ice Hockey Players
    Preprint (not final version)
  • 16:20-16:55 Kseniia Buzko, Amir Nazemi, David A. Clausi, Yuhao Chen
    Ice Hockey Action Recognition via Contextual Priors
    Preprint (not final version)

16:55–17:15 Break

  • 17:15-17:40 Rodney Paul, Nick Riccardi, Hunter Kuchenbaur
    Dropping the Gloves, Driving the Play? Reassessing the Role of Fighting in Modern NHL Games
    Preprint (not final version)
  • 17:40-18:05 Evan Iaboni, Sebastian Negulescu, Miles Pitassi, Fauzan Lodhi, Tim Brecht
    Individual Puck Possessions Part I: Frequency, Duration, and Distance Travelled
    Preprint (not final version)
  • 18:05-18:30 Fauzan Lodhi, Sebastian Negulescu, Miles Pitassi, Evan Iaboni, Tim Brecht
    Individual Puck Possessions Part II: Speed Bursts and Possession Times within Teams
    Preprint (not final version)

June 4

10:00-10:40 Student competition

  • Daniel Griffiths, Piper Moskow (Syracuse University)
    Gaining Momentum: Uncovering Hidden Scoring Dynamics in Hockey through Deep Neural Sequencing and Causal Modeling
    Preprint (not final version)
  • Yanjie Lyu, Qingxuan Cui, Huaide Liu, Han Xia, Yi Yang (Linköping University)
    Identifying and Analyzing SHL Ice Hockey Match Styles Based on Event Data Aggregation and K-Means Clustering
    Preprint (not final version)
  • Arun Ramji, Ethan Batiuk (University of Waterloo)
    A Novel Approach to Quantifying Zone Exits
    Preprint (not final version)
  • Kiran Roye (Ossining High School)
    A Machine Learning Approach to Score Passes Based on Their Offensive Contribution
    Preprint (not final version)

10:40-11:20 Community notes

  • Louis Boulet
    Merging Shot Data to Measure Player Importance to Team's Offensive Flow
  • Evan Lawing
    xReboundsPlus, Creating a Statistic to Predict Rebound Quality
  • Lynn LeVatte, Christina Philipps, Shaun Ranni, Sarah Timmons
    Exploring Leadership and Cultural Training Experiences of Ice Hockey Coaches: Lessons Learned from Nova Scotia

11:20-11:30 break

11:30-12:00 Talk - Erik Wilderoth (Färjestad BK), No room for stagnation:  We need to get better

12:00-12:30 Talk - Mikael Svarén (Dalarna University and Riksidrottsförbundet/Swedish Sports Confederation), Using analytics for performance optimization – from an applied and academical perspective

12:30-13:30 lunch

13:30-14:00 Talk - Robert Bandemer (d-fine) and Karl Schwarzenbrunner (DEB/German Ice Hockey Federation, online), How data enriches the ice hockey game

14:00-14:30 Talk - Curtis Harvey and Samuel Howorth (SMT), Skater and goalie workloads using player and puck tracking (online)

14:30-15:30 Panel - Analytics in the NHL (online)
AJ Bernstein (San Jose Sharks), Miranda McMillan (Montreal Canadiens), Josh Pohlkamp-Hartt (Boston Bruins), David Radke (Chicago Blackhawks), Matthew Hamann (Nashville Predators)

15:30-15:45 break

Session: Media

15:45-16:15 Talk - Robin Blidstrand (Blidgency AB)

16:15-17:15 Panel - Analytics in the media
Robin Blidstrand (Blidgency AB), Andreas Hänni (49ing), Mike Kelly (Sportlogiq, NHL Network)

17:15 Closing