{"id":4323,"date":"2025-03-17T09:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T09:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/economics\/?p=4323"},"modified":"2025-03-24T15:03:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T15:03:41","slug":"congratulations-to-james-reade-on-wining-the-mit-sloane-sports-analytics-conference-research-papers-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/economics\/congratulations-to-james-reade-on-wining-the-mit-sloane-sports-analytics-conference-research-papers-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to James Reade on winning the MIT Sloane Sports Analytics Conference &#8211; Research Papers Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4324\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2025\/03\/James-Reade-MIT-Prize-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"651\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2025\/03\/James-Reade-MIT-Prize-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2025\/03\/James-Reade-MIT-Prize-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2025\/03\/James-Reade-MIT-Prize-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2025\/03\/James-Reade-MIT-Prize-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2025\/03\/James-Reade-MIT-Prize-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2025\/03\/James-Reade-MIT-Prize-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2025\/03\/James-Reade-MIT-Prize-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/economics\/our-staff\/james-reade\">James Reade<\/a> on winning the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sloansportsconference.com\/\">MIT Sloane Sports Analytics Conference<\/a> &#8211; Research Papers Competition.<\/p>\n<p>This is the winning paper: &#8216;Do Behavioral Considerations Cloud Penalty-Kick Location Optimization in Professional Soccer: Game Theory &amp; Empirical Testing using Polynomial Regression and ML Gradient Boosting&#8217;\u00a0by Alivia\u00a0Uribe, Shane Sanders, Justin Ehrlich, James J. 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