Number crunchers have vanquished starting pitching and brought a barrage of 3-pointers to basketball.
Now they’re taking on a more intractable — and important — issue: making sports more inclusive.
The MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference this weekend features at least six sessions on diversity, equity and inclusion, from a discussion of the NFL’s Rooney Rule to one on transgender athletes. They’re using the same analytics increasingly applied to player performance to show what’s working, what isn’t, and how much work remains to make the world of sports more inclusive.
The original article was published by Jimmy Golen on AP News.
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