Revenge of the sports nerds
This past weekend was not the first time I’ve been here. Standing awkwardly on the periphery of a gathering of people, glancing over at the unattainably hot girl I had a foolish and desperate crush on, wishing I could go up to her and make conversation, but knowing that A) I wasn’t cool enough to do so and B) there were tons of other guys all thinking the same thing I was. Have I gone back to high school, you ask? No, this was no high school. This was the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, and the “girls” in question were the likes of Bill Simmons, Mark Cuban and Daryl Morey.




