Sports analytics Third International Conference, ISACE 2026, Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 1-2, 2026 proceedings Zhaoyu Liu, Vishal Misra, editors

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Liu, Zhaoyu, editor.

Misra, Vishal, editor.

Conference Name:

International Conference on Sports Analytics Conference and Exhibition (3rd : 2026 : Vancouver, B.C.)

Series:

Lecture notes in computer science ; 16610.

Lecture notes in computer science 1611-3349 16610

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Statistical methods.

Sports--Data processing.

Genre:

proceedings (reports)

Conference papers and proceedings

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland Springer Nature [2026]

Summary:

"This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Sports Analytics, ISACE 2026, which took place in Vancouver, Canada, during June 1-2, 2026.The 28 full papers, 2 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. The book also contains two invited talks. The papers focus on the application of AI, data science, psychology, and smart devices to improve sport performance, strategy, and decision-making"-- Springer Nature Link

Contents:

Reasoning beyond LLMs and a vision for life after superintelligence : the player era / Jin Song Dong, Zhaoyu Liu, Zhe Hou, Kan Jiang, and Yun Lin

Valuing actions and ranking hockey players with machine learning (extended abstract) / Oliver Schulte

Smarter training for safer play : a VR-enhanced system tested in elite sitting volleyball / Cai Yong and Dai Jie

Constructing football club ratings with league strength awareness using a modified Glicko model / Andrei Shelopugin and Alexander Sirotkin

A multi-dimensional spatial similarity framework for football player comparison : extending positional analysis with tactical context / Amr Safwat, Shehap Elhadary, Bassel Ahmed, Mohamed Hafez, and Tamer Basha

Match preparation in professional football : the potential of swarm intelligence-based lineup predictions / Marco Klaiber and Manfred Rössle

A deep learning based approach for live win probability in NBA games using play-by-play events and compact game state / Dogan C. Cicek

Clustering tactical patterns in football : time series features from tracking data / James Anurathan, Philip Ritzer, Manuel Wengert, Christian Koot, Manfred Rössle, and Marco Klaiber

Trajectory-based retrieval of similar soccer plays using time-warping and anchor-based representations / Shehap Elhadary, Amrou Abdelmawla, Mahmoud Nasr, Mohamed Hafez, and Tamer Basha

The past informs the future : temporal sliding window graph attention networks for real-time football match outcome prediction / Miraç Merthan Durdağ, Mustafa Orçun Uçgun, Ege Demir, and Yusuf H. Şahin

A.I. applications in the NCAA ecosystem / Don Lee, Michael Cottingham, and Yuxin Mu

Decoding defensive coverage responsibilities in American football using factorized attention based transformer models / Kevin Song, Evan Diewald, Ornob Siddiquee, Chris Boomhower, Keegan Abdoo, Mike Band, and Amy Lee

A bootstrap method for persistent homology analysis of NBA lineups / Jim Wiseman

TANS-agent : structured, multi-agent tactical reasoning for tennis match analysis and strategy recommendation / Emma Y. Cai, Yuexi Song, Chuanfei Li, and Zhenkai Liang

Geometrically aware ice hockey puck tracking via stable planar representations / Liam Salass, John Zelek, and David Clausi

Quantifying off-ball attacking influence using additive pitch control attribution / Bassel Hammad, Mahmoud Nasr, Omar Refaat, Mohamed Hafez, and Tamer Basha

Synthetic data generation for NCAA basketball performance analytics / Ryan Mastropaolo, Srishti Sharma, Jui Shah, Andrea Hudy, N. Sertac Artan, Alexander Young, Tolga Kaya, Christopher Taber, and Mehul S. Raval

The impact of strength of schedule balance on tournament efficacy / João P. L. Marchetti, João P. F. Batista, and Pedro O. S. Vaz-de Melo

Risk parity vs. Kelly criterion : an empirical evaluation of bankroll allocation strategies in football value betting / René Manassé Galekwa, Jean Marie Tshimula, Etienne Gael Tajeuna, Selain K. Kasereka, and Kyandoghere Kyamakya

Expected possession value of control and duel actions for soccer player skills estimation / Andrei Shelopugin

From skeletons to pixels : few-shot precise event spotting via representation and prediction distillation / Zhong Han Ervin Yeoh and Kan Jiang

Integrating team pursuit video analysis in track cycling / Robbe Decorte, Maarten Slembrouck, and Steven Verstockt

Shot and technical error detection in tennis using graph convolutional networks / Pierre Hellich, Jiang Kan, Jin Song Dong, and Mathieu Salzmann

Predicting the NBA finals most valuable player : using a dual approach for small datasets / Tung Wai Chen and Michael Johnson

Rethinking the shooting foul : evaluating two alternative penalty models for enhanced game flow, competitive balance, and fan experience / Jeff Rickords and Willie K. Harrison

SoccerRef-agents : multi-agent system for automated soccer refereeing / Zi Meng, Wanli Song, Yi Hu, Jiayuan Rao, and Gang Chen

Design, deployment, and evaluation of an open-source college football championship prediction model / Charles Jeffrey Danoff and Cecil Isaih Battiste

Learning about corner kicks in soccer by analysis of event times using a frailty model / Riley L. Isaacs, X. Joan Hu, K. Ken Peng, and Tim B. Swartz

Forecasting high-intensity activity in elite Gaelic football : a machine learning approach using wearable sensor data and metabolic work ratio / Valerio Antonini, Mark Roantree, and Michael Scriney

Addressing last mile issues in sports analytics : a case study in expected goals in soccer / Joe Gallagher, Daniel Dinsdale, Arun Murali, Nils Mackay, Daniele Foroni, and Patrick Lucey

Encoding domain expertise in agents : lessons from NFL fantasy AI / Michael Butler, Henry Wang, Jake Lee, Kenton Blacutt, Dan Volk, Mike Band, and Diego Socolinsky

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Springer Nature Link, viewed June 3, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version International Conference on Sports Analytics Conference and Exhibition (3rd : 2026 : Vancouver, B.C.) Sports analytics

ISBN:

9783032272720

3032272726

OCLC:

1593498137

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