Detailed Program of

MathSport Asia 2024

MathSport Asia 2024

Keynote Speakers

  • Dries Goossens – Ghent University, Belgium
  • Young Hoon Lee – Sogang University, South Korea
  • Phil Scarf – Cardiff Business School, United Kingdom
  • Anthony Bedford – University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
  • Shubhabrata Das – Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India

Practitioners’ Sessions Speakers

  • Ramakrishnan ‘Ramky’ Subramanian – CEO SportsMechanics
  • Anukool Bharadwaj – Chief Strategy Officer, OGQ: Olympic Gold Quest
  • Amit Purohit – Founder: Fantasy Akhada, VUSport & FanToPark
  • V Jayadevan – Creator of the VJD Method
  • Dhruv Kanal – Senior Marketing Manager Infosys
  • Mukul Choudhari – CEO, Jamshedpur Football Club

Day 01: December 09, 2024

Time Events & Sessions
08:30 – 09:00 Inauguration
09:00 – 09:45 Plenary Session 1:
Scheduling Youth Competitions
Speaker: Dries Goossens,
Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration,
Ghent University, Belgium
10:00 – 11:00 Technical Session 1 – A1 Technical Session 1 – A2
  1. Satyam Mukherjee:
    Prior shared successes and mediation in
    team competitions
  2. Anand V:
    Applying the Malmquist Productivity
    Index to Evaluate IPL Players’ Performance
  3. Rhitankar Bandyopadhyay:
    Applications of higher-order Markov
    models and Pressure Index to strategize
    controlled run chases in Twenty20 cricket
  1. Apurva Jha:
    Modelling Player Experience on Fantasy
    Sports Mobile Applications: Insights from
    Text Mining
  2. Mohit Bhatnagar:
    Evaluating the Effectiveness of Crowd
    Wisdom in IPL Fantasy League Team
    Compositions
  3. Jimut Bahan Chakrabarty:
    Leveraging Dynamic Player Rankings for
    Predicting Optimal Fantasy Teams in T20
    Cricket: A Factor Score-Based Approach
11:15 – 12:15 Technical Session 1 – B1 Technical Session 1 – B2
  1. Tarun Abhichandani:
    The influence of performance in domestic
    tournaments on longevity in Indian Premier
    League (IPL) and viability of representing
    India – Analytical Approach
  2. Ganesh Katrapati:
    Sports data to stories- an AI-based
    framework for generating interesting
    content
  3. Shabana Chandrasekaran:
    Content Creator Personality and Fan
    Engagement: Twitter Analysis from
    FIFA 2022 World Cup
  1. Gleb Vasiliev:
    The Heat of the House: Analyzing Late-Game
    Performance in Curling
  2. Rehan Bhatia:
    Does scheduling and related travel impact
    the team and individual performances in
    NBA? Evidences from multiple seasons
  3. Sadanand Venkataraman:
    Redefining Talent Identification in
    Football: The YUVA-SQ Model
12:30 – 01:30 Practitioner Talks 1

  1. Anukool Bharadwaj,
    Chief Strategy Officer, OGQ:
    Olympic Gold Quest:
    Earlier Roles at OGQ Head- Para Athlete Management,
    Head- Research & Analysis
  2. Amit Purohit,
    Founder: Fantasy Akhada, VUSport & FanToPark
01:30 – 02:30 LUNCH
02:30 – 03:15 Plenary Session 2:
Measurement of Competitive Balance and Outcome Uncertainty
Speaker: Young Hoon Lee,
Professor of Economics,
Sogang University, South Korea
03:30 – 04:30 Technical Session 1 – C1 Technical Session 1 – C2
  1. Abhishek Chakraborty:
    Analyzing the Competitiveness of European
    Football Leagues through Network Analysis
  2. Lisa Garcia Tercero:
    Minimal and fair waiting times for
    single-day sports tournaments with
    multiple fields
  3. Jayadevan V:
    The DLJ version, a new variant that
    eliminates all anomalies of the Duckworth
    and Lewis method
  1. Kushagra Sharan:
    Allocation of Resources and its Adaptation
    to Competition
  2. Ashish L Karnavat:
    Rank-based Model for Price-Differential for
    Exports of Media Broadcast Rights:
    Premier Badminton League, India
  3. David Van Bulck:
    How to organize a fair rogaining
    competition?
  4. Joonas PaakKonen:
    Cross-Country Skiing Training Data Predict
    the Competition Results of an Olympic
    Gold Medalist
05:00 – 06:00 Kabaddi Demo Game
06:30 – 07:30 “Pulling Strings”: Social Event Hosted by EURO Working Group “OR in Sport”
07:30 – 09:00 DINNER – Hosted by the Director, IIM Udaipur

Day 02: December 10, 2024

Time Events & Sessions
09:00 – 09:45 Plenary Session 3:
Fifty years modelling soccer scores: what have we learned
Speaker: Phil Scarf,
Professor of Management Mathematics,
Cardiff Business School, United Kingdom
10:00 – 11:00 Technical Session 2 – A1 Technical Session 2 – A2
  1. Praveen D. Chougale:
    Athlete ACWR Monitoring Tool:
    A Comprehensive Approach to
    Workload Management
  2. Mohit Bhatnagar:
    Analyzing Key Factors Influencing IPL
    Cricket Scores Using Explainable AI and
    Multi-Modal Data Integration
  3. Bhaskar Basu:
    T20 Team Selection: From Analytics
    to Action
  1. Priyanka Talukdar:
    Importance of Setting a Target in case of
    a Limited Overs Cricket Match
  2. Jayadevan V:
    The net relative run rate method (NRRR),
    a foolproof technique to replace the net
    run rate (NRR) method in evaluating the
    authority of match-wins
  3. Anthony Bedford:
    Technology and Decision-Making in Sports
11:15 – 12:15 Technical Session 2 – B1 Technical Session 2 – B2
  1. Jimut Bahan Chakrabarty:
    Critical Metrics for Assessing Test Cricket
    Performance: A Factor Analysis Approach
  2. Kapil Gupta:
    A Robust Multilevel Modeling Approach to
    Ranking Women’s Batting Performances
    in Cricket
  3. Anirudh Srikanth:
    Extreme Heat and Productivity:
    Evidence from Elite Level Professional
    League Football
  1. Nobuyoshi Hirotsu:
    Evaluation of Rugby Teams Using Data
    Envelopment Analysis
  2. Sweta Tiwari:
    Exploring the Determinants of Football
    Performance in India: Economic,
    Physical and Strategic Factors
  3. Robert Younger:
    Objectifying the Subjective: Turning Expert
    Recruiter Insight into Machine Analysable
    Data in Australian Football
12:30 – 01:30 Practitioner Talks 2

  1. V Jayadevan,
    Creator of the VJD Method
  2. Ramky S,
    Promoter, Sports Mechanics India Pvt Ltd:
    Formerly Performance Analyst, Indian Cricket Team
01:30 – 02:30 LUNCH
02:30 – 03:15 Plenary Session 4:
Modern Solutions to Ancient Problems: AI and CV Technology in Horse Racing
Speaker: Anthony Bedford,
Associate Professor, Data Science,
University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
03:30 – 04:30 Technical Session 2 – C1
  1. Karel Devriesere:
    Reforming Belgian youth field hockey competitions with
    an incomplete round-robin tournament
  2. Siddhartha K Rastogi:
    Sporting Leagues of India: Insights for Economics,
    Management, and Sports
  3. Subhasis Ray:
    Best congregation of skill may not be enough for success
    in a team game- a provocative study around IPL 2024
04:30 – 05:00 Practitioner Talks 3

  1. Dhruv Kanal,
    Senior Marketing Manager Infosys:
    Global Marketing Head for Sports Sponsorships,
    Implementing New Cutting-Edge Technology in Tennis and Formula E
05:00 – 07:30 City Visit
08:00 – 10:00 Conference Dinner – Hosted by Plant Lipids Private Limited

Day 03: December 11, 2024

Time Events & Sessions
09:00 – 09:45 Plenary Session 5:
On Balanced Scheduling and Dynamic Updates in Double Round-Robin Tournaments:
Applications in the Indian Super League
Speaker: Shubhabrata Das,
Professor, Decision Sciences,
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
10:00 – 11:00 Technical Session 3 – A1 Technical Session 3 – A2
  1. Satyam Mukherjee:
    Competing Against Former Teammates
    Predicts Team Victory
  2. Chitresh Kumar:
    My country, my pitches! Assessing the
    impact of pitches, venue, and toss on Test
    Cricket outcomes
  3. Apurva Jha:
    Determinants of Online Fantasy Contest
    Choices: A Multinomial Logit Estimation
  4. Soumya Sarkar:
    Pep or PowerBI for Football Lineup
    Prediction?
  1. Subhasis Ray:
    In search of the winning formula and
    patterns in five major European soccer
    leagues
  2. Jimut Bahan Chakrabarty:
    Insights from Game Chatter: Commentary
    and Number driven T20 Match Predictions
  3. Shobhit Aggarwal:
    Does team composition affect team
    performance in cricket?
  4. Praveen D Chougale:
    Pre- and Post-Season Analysis of Physical
    and Performance Metrics in Thane City
    Football Club Youth Players
11:00 – 12:15 Practitioner Talks 4

  1. Mukul Choudhari,
    CEO, Jamshedpur Football Club and
    Chief of Sports Excellence Centres at Tata Steel
12:30 – 01:30 Concluding Session:

Presentation of Sammaan Best Paper Awards

Presentation of Participation Certificates
01:30 – 02:30 LUNCH