If you are into following analytics, you may already be following people from the RIT sports analytics conference (#RITSAC) this weekend, and if it’s not your thing, you may not care.
But you can glean an overview without going too deeply by following some of the tweets of the usual suspects, including some burgeoning work on women’s hockey. There was a stream of the morning here, the afternoon here. (Okay, that’s going in too deep maybe.)
You’ve perhaps seen neutral zone tracking and thought “there is nothing more boring than the neutral zone,” and that may be true from an entertainment standpoint, but it’s interesting how much zone entries, exits, and preventions can tell us — in a repeatable and predictive way — about individual players.