Rob Vollman

Hockey has entered the modern age with new statistics, and a working knowledge of these ideas is a new requirement to play, coach, cover, or even to fully enjoy watching this sport. In an engaging presentation that can be tailored to the experience and specific perspective of those in attendance, the audience will be brought up to speed on all the latest developments in the field of hockey analytics, why they're important, and how they can be used to develop a deeper understanding of the game. Length: 30 minutes (abridged), 60 minutes Note: Rob has a version of this presentation that is geared towards students: Building a Career in Math: Hockey Analytics

By objectively measuring every aspect of the game, and figuring out which elements were directly related to performance, they were able to find and exploit market inefficiencies that existed at the time. Building on the same ideas, this presentation isn't about hockey, or even about data analytics, it's actually about performance. Length: 60 minutes

Dating back to the innovation of the plus/minus statistic by Montreal tie salesman Allan Roth in the 1940s, through the days of how Lloyd Percival's Hockey Handbook helped Anatoli Tarasov build the Russian hockey program, and all the way to today's revolution and the player tracking technology of tomorrow, the field of hockey analytics has a fascinating history and an almost limitless future. Length: 20 minutes (abridged), 40 minutes