The Detroit Pistons: As if losing their sixth straight game wasn’t bad enough, Rodney Stuckey collapsed during the third quarter of Detroit’s game against the Crabs in Cleveland. The good news is, it appears Stuckey is going to be okay . But damn, that was a freaky-scary moment.

The basketball analytics panel is always one of the best-attended and most engaging panel of the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Last year, the debate crackled when the panelists revisited the Jason Kidd-Devin Harris deal. This year, the participants took inventory of the state of basketball analytics in the League, and made particular note of how many NBA organizations had sent representatives to the conference (by one count, 16 of the 30 teams)

In addition to the lively panels, the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference features the presentation of research papers by up-and-coming thinkers in the field. Brian Robb of Celtics Hub attended one such presentation today, “Whistle Swallowing: Officiating & the Omission Bias.” An omission bias can best be defined as a referee’s willingness to make an incorrect call rather than make an incorrect non-call. Robb explains the nut of the findings by Tobias Moskowitz and Jon Wertheim, who wrote the paper: So where does the NBA fit into this type of bias

It’s one thing for an NBA organization to commit itself to collecting and analyzing advanced statistics, but it’s quite another to get the coaching staff to buy in. Zach Lowe of Celtics Hub attended the panel on Saturday at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference on coaching analytics

The marquee panel at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference on Saturday was titled, “What Geeks Don’t Get: The Limits of Moneyball,” moderated by Michael Lewis.

On Hardwood Paroxysm, Rob Mahoney of The Two Man Game writes about a paper called “The Price of Anarchy in Basketball” presented by Brian Skinner at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. The paper wrestles with reality that giving the ball to your best offensive player every time down the floor is not the best offensive strategy.

On the NBA Playbook, Sebastian Pruiti describes a presentation by John Huizinga and Sandy Weil, who made a big impression at this conference last year with their paper which strongly questioned the existence of the hot hand. TrueHoop at MIT Sloan Sports conference ” Performance enhancement . ” The Next Generation of Sports Management and Ownership .

I don’t come to this panel without prejudice. My general view of performance enhancing drugs tends to run counter to most fans and sports journalists. I don’t explicitly support PEDs in sports, but I do see them as neither good nor bad

The 2010 MIT Sloan Sports Conference is far bigger than in years past, with around 1,000 attendees and a waiting list of about 400. In its first three years it was at MIT ..

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