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Speaker announcement!

The ASI Summit is excited to welcome its next speaker, Devin Pleuler. Pleuler is the Senior Director of Research and Development at Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, where he leads the Sport Performance Lab.

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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Agreed!

A great hire and a continued acknowledgement of the importance of analytics savvy in sporting director roles in MLS. 👏👏

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Another announcement:

We are excited to welcome the Summit’s next speaker, Kendall Thomas. Thomas is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Statistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Thinking about this for most of the night, I don't think normal people realise Banerjee & Duflo leaving MIT is Bad-Bunny-level academic news.

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REMINDER: The call for abstracts for the 2026 American Soccer Insights Summit closes at 11:59 PM CT on October 1st.

We’re looking for talks that show how data—especially statistics and machine learning—can unlock insights to help players and teams perform their best.

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A goal of ours with ASI going into 2026 was to make this a truly pan-Americas soccer analytics conference.

Really excited about having Carlos Vela - who brings an extensive background in technical/sporting director roles in Mexico and now Costa Rica - as our keynote speaker.

Targeting trans athletes was always going to have minimal impact on professional sports but significant detrimental impacts at the youth and amateur levels.

If you think children playing sports is a net societal positive (a statement I imagine would have broad support) this is bad legislation.

Me proposing to my fiancé in front of Lake Michigan

Transfer window may be closed but I still managed to secure a key permanent move this weekend.

Yeah I mean I’m all for Mike’s change of penalties coming before ET but please keep the period id for penalties as 5 and ET as 3 and 4.

I believe the engineers working on your broadcast tracking data would respectfully disagree.

Call for proposals: CLOSING SOON! Deadline: September 1, 11:59 PM CT. Brought to you by SkillCorner.

REMINDER: The call for proposals for the 2026 American Soccer Insights Summit closes at 11:59 PM CT on September 1st.

In partnership with SkillCorner, we are excited to offer women’s soccer tracking data to support the researchers who send us the best proposals.

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Exciting times: Our first ever NWSL analytics tiers are here. Shoutout @washingtonspirit.com and James Hocken as our first nerd boss. www.americansocceranalysis.com/home/2025/8/...

As always clubs/employees, if we're wrong about your role/title or missed someone, let us know.

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Call for Proposals. Deadline: September 1, 2025. Brought to you by SkillCorner.

Call for abstracts. Apply to present a contributed talk. Deadline: October 1 2025.

Interested in presenting?

There are two ways to showcase your work at the 2026 ASI Summit. For more information on submitting proposals and abstracts, visit:

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I think what can change is how effectively decision-makers (and which decision-makers) are using this information in their processes. However infrastructure doesn't get built or disappear overnight - even as analytics staffers come and go.

1. I love that this is a yearly thing

2. Shows analysts are just as prone to recency bias as anyone else. Outside of a few significant exceptions almost no way teams can swing as drastically from most to least analytically advanced or vice-versa in the course of one year

For the first time, we have two entries to Tier 0. The State of Analytics in MLS is here: www.americansocceranalysis.com/home/2025/7/20/state-of-mls-analytics-july-2025

Another exciting job on our Data Analytics team at US Soccer!

This data scientist role will be working mostly with player tracking data and previous experience using tracking data (any sport) is a must-have for this job.

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After a successful first edition the American Soccer Insights Summit is back for Round 2.

Last year was a great mix of industry professionals, club staff, students, public analysts and academics. We really strive to foster an environment which is welcoming to everyone - register today!

UNITED STATES SOCCER FEDERATION 1 - Performance Data Analyst U.S. Soccer Overview We are U.S. Soccer and we are the future of sport in the United States.  Our mission is to make soccer the preeminent sport in the United States.  We embrace divers...

We have an opening on our Data Analytics team at US Soccer for a Performance Data Analyst. This person should have strong foundational skills in data analysis (python preferred) as well as experience in the Sport Science/human performance space (any sport)
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