Role as a President:

My role as President of Think Tank Sports Analytics Club involved frequent communication with coaches, communication with club members, running meetings, and a lot of sports analytics.

During my time as President, I was lucky enough the secure partnerships with the women’s basketball team, men’s basketball team, and men’s baseball team for the club.

In order to keep the partnerships and foster them, many deadlines and frequent adaptations to the club’s analytics were required. Here is what I contributed to each team we partnered with:

Analytics for Bryant’s Athletic Team:

Women’s Basketball Team

• I rewatched every Bryant University conference matchup to collect play-by-play data in Synergy’s Editor application. I then transferred this data into an excel spreadsheet to create the dashboards.

This shows the Synergy Editor application where I created a text overlay for the coaches to hat included every metric I measured so that they could have a film clip associated to each play that I did analysis on for each game.

• I used an Excel spreadsheet with the same data I collected in Synergy to create dashboards on Bryant’s team as well as on the upcoming opponents.

This is the Excel sheet I created with all the play-by-play data from each game.

This dashboard shows the shooting percentage (with makes in light blue) based on the metrics I collected data on, including movement leading up to the shot, player shooting or primary defender on the defensive side of the ball, distance, play type, setup play, and court position of each shot. The dashboard also included filters for each metric as well as shot clock time remaining and game so that the coaches could have more information on their team.

• I used the filters in Synergy’s Basketball application to develop actionable insights into the opponents for every conference game the Bryant played. I analyzed specific players and overall team performance along many metrics on the defensive and offensive side of the ball.

This shows the bullet-point list I would share with the coaches about for days prior to each game so that they could use this opponent analysis to develop their gameplan.

• I emailed the coaches a postgame recap on how they performed in the previous game based on our analytics from the dashboards.

Here is an example email I sent after their game against UNH.

Men’s Basketball Team

• I rewatched every Bryant University conference game to collect play-by-play data in Excel

My Excel spreadsheet included the offensive possessions and defensive positions with the player listed. The offensive side was the Bryant player shooting the ball and the defensive possessions are the primary defender for Bryant. I also collected data on metrics including shot clock time remaining, distance, setup play, play type, movement, defensive pressure, and help defense presence at the time of the shot.

• I created dashboards with visuals to present to the men’s basketball coaches as well as for myself to analyze further to create actionable insights for the team to focus on before their upcoming game.

This dashboard displays the data from the Excel spreadsheet above in an easy-to-read manner with the light blue being shot made percentage and the dark blue being shot missed percentage, so it shows shooting percentage overall. These dashboards were created for the offensive and defensive side of the ball for 2-pointers and 3-pointers.

This dashboard shows the frequency of shots being taken at each shot clock remaining amount to show how early in the shot clock the Bryant team is shooting.

• I created bullet-point opponent analyses based on data from Synergy Sports that were actionable trends in the opponents gameplay that Bryant University could use to develop thier gameplan against each team.

Men’s Baseball Team

• We were provided data from the pitching coach on each pitcher’s stats recorded from every pitch thrown. We used this data to create dashboard leaderboards for the fall season based on Bryant’s pitcher performance in scrimmages.

Here is an example of one of the leaderboards showing team averages and leaderboards for the pitcher’s K/BB ratio, whiffs, and total strikeouts and walks allowed. This dashboard also has filters based on the metrics measured by the team.