The Northern California Symposium on Statistics and Operations Research in Sports (NCSSORS) was held at Menlo College last Saturday. I had the honor of presenting a saframetrics poster– The Best Scoring Placekickers in the NFL– which received much attention and discussion. After this success, I am preparing a manuscript which I hope will be published by the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports.

One highlight of the symposium was a panel discussion that featured Football Outsiders’ Aaron Schatz, Gilbert Fellingham, Sam Hinkie of the Houston Rockets and moderated by Mike Pesca. All the panelists are successfully bringing quantitative methods to sport.

Apart from my contribution, other saframetric presentations were made:

• Optimizing Football Game Play Calling by Jeremy Jordan
• Quantifying NFL Coaching: A Proof of New Growth Theory by Kevin Braig
• Indecision in the pocket: an analysis of the relative success of fast and slow quarterbacking passing decisions by Elizabeth Veinott and Shane Mueller
• Assessing Methods for College Football Rankings by Jerome Keating
• A Statistical Analysis of NFL Quarterback Rating Variables by Derek Stimel

I plan to contact these individuals to see if they would consider discussing their work on this blog.