MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference still raising the bar as it celebrates 20th anniversary

Long before Jessica Gelman was rubbing elbows with everyone from professional sports executives to former President Barack Obama, she was a college basketball player and psychology student at Harvard trying to identify the qualities of athletes who perform so well under pressure. “I believe that the reason that so many of us love sports is because in many cases, it’s beyond our expectation of what people can do,” Gelman said. For the past three decades, Gelman has been doing that and more a...

By KYLE HIGHTOWER