SABR 36 Dates Announced!!!

Thursday, June 29nd through Saturday, July 1st of 2006... Seattle... Diamonds in the Emerald City...

It's Official, SABR36 will be at the Madison Renaissance Hotel in Seattle.

So, the question is, "Will you be going?"

Or maybe, you have questions...

This is the thread to kick off the announcement and start making your plans.

If you came to the Blog directly, make sure and pop over to the SABR 36 Convention page on the NWSABR website. For one, there's great set of 4 buttons and a checklist highlighting Ball Four. This ties in with the keynote speaker for SABR 36, Yankee and Seattle Pilot pitcher, Jim Bouton.

Hope to see you all in the Emerald City for SABR 36!!!

Maury Brown
Vice President
NWSABR

SABR 36 - Call for Abstracts

All members are invited to present their research to their colleagues attending SABR 36 in Seattle. Oral presentations are anticipated to be limited to 20 minutes, followed by 5 minutes for questions-and-answers. Submission of potential poster presentations is very strongly encouraged. Submissions on all aspects of baseball are welcomed.

Abstracts/summaries of the proposed presentation should be no more than 500 words, including discussion of previous work on the topic and the expected contribution offered by this work, as well as a summary of the research methodology.

Along with the abstract, the author should indicate whether the work is to be reviewed as a poster or oral presentation (or both) and which medium is preferred. Anticipated audio-visual needs should also be described. All research submissions will be evaluated by blind review. Though it is not absolutely mandatory, we very strongly prefer that summaries be submitted electronically, either as plain text-mail or in a standard word processor format to the sabr2006-presentations@comcast.net email address.

Through on-site judging, the best presentations will receive the Doug Pappas Award (courtesy of USA Today Sports Weekly) for best oral presentation and The USA Today Sports Weekly Award for best poster presentation. Submission deadline is March 1, 2006.

The email address sabr2006-presentations@comcast.net should be used for all research presentation submissions, as well as for questions and information requests about research presentations at SABR 36. Members who cannot submit their abstracts electronically should send them to Eileen Canepari in the SABR office with the subject line "SABR 36 Presentation Abstract."