NBA Analytics & MIT Sports Business Conference

The Sports Guy had Daryl Morey (GM of the Rockets) on his podcast last week and they talked about the MIT Sports Analytic Conference.  Kevin, Mark and I went last year and it was great.  Looks like they got even more heavy hitters this year - Simmons, Cuban, several GMs.  Maybe next year we check it out as well.  

You can hear the chat here:  http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/simmons/index

At the end he asked Morey where he thought the next great niche was and Morey said he thought the basketball analytics was pretty well covered so the next big thing is finding something new to analyze or interpret.  Maybe finding a better way to analyze MMA or decifering how performance in the European leagues will translate to the NBA or something is the next big thing.