Did you watch the Australian Open on TV, fascinated every time statistics about players and matches came across the screen?
International sports statistician Professor Jim Albert is visiting Australia and will give a free public talk at QUT in Brisbane on March 1.
The talk is hosted by QUT’s Institute for Future Environments and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical & Statistical Frontiers.
Professor Albert will present an overview of the state of tennis analysis – and where future stats analysis is heading thanks to the availability of point-by-point datasets for Grand Slams.
He’ll then hone in on factors influencing how long men and women take to serve during ATP and WTA matches.
Professor Albert will also tackle the current world ranking system for professional players and how it can be improved.
Audience members will need to be familiar with Bayesian statistics to get the most out of the talk, which is titled ‘A Multilevel Bayesian Approach for Modelling the Time-to-Serve in Professional Tennis’.
Professor Albert is visiting Australia from Bowling Green State University in the USA, where he specialises in baseball analytics.
People can book online for the talk, which will run from 2pm to 3pm on Wednesday, March 1, at QUT’s Science and Engineering Centre on the Gardens Point campus.
Media contacts:
- Mechelle McMahon, QUT media officer, media@qut.edu.au
- (after hours) Rose Trapnell, QUT media team leader, 0407 585 901
QUT is part of a national collaborative group of five major Australian universities that form the ATN (Australian Technology Network of Universities).
