Hello everyone, I am pleased to announce that this year’s international conference of the Royal Statistical Society will have a sports stream and we would welcome submissions for contributed talks and posters. The conference will take place in Sheffield from 1-4 September. Submissions from statisticians and users of statistics in the early stages of their careers are positively encouraged. Full details about the online submission system can be found here<http://www.statslife.org.uk/events/annual-conference/submissions>. The deadline for submissions is 30 March 2014. Further details about the conference can be found on the conference blog<http://www.statslife.org.uk/events/annual-conference/conference-blog> pages. Best wishes, Ian Dr Ian McHale Chair of the Statistics in Sport Section of the Royal Statistical Society Reader in Statistics | Director, Centre for Sports Business 606a, Maxwell Building, University of Salford, Salford M5 4WT t: +44 (0) 161 295 4765 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> | www.salford.ac.uk<http://www.salford.ac.uk/> You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.