The Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics (MLSA) workshop aims to bring people from outside of the Machine Learning and Data Mining community into contact with researchers from that community who are working on Sports Analytics.
The 7th edition of the workshop was co-located with the European Conference
on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery (ECML
PKDD 2020).
Sports Analytics has been a steadily growing and rapidly evolving area over the last decade, both in US professional sports leagues and in European football leagues. The recent implementation of strict financial fair-play regulations in European football will definitely increase the importance of Sports Analytics in the coming years. In addition, there is the popularity of sports betting. The developed techniques are being used for decision support in all aspects of professional sports ...