ANALYTICS 101
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| Ken Catanella | He is currently working for Detroit Pistons as the director of basketball operations. Ken Catanella is a leader in the growing field of basketball analytics. He joined the NBA League Office in January 2009 and was selected as Manager of the League's Basketball Analytics efforts soon thereafter. He previously worked for the New Jersey Nets as Coordinator of Statistical Analysis from 2006-2008 and managed the creation and implementation of the Nets' statistical scouting systems. He also advised the team’s GM, President, and ownership by evaluating domestic and international player personnel as well as the team’s strategic financial plan. Before joining the Nets, Catanella worked in both basketball and finance. Following graduation from Amherst College in 1997, he worked on Wall Street providing analytics on stadium/arena financings for professional teams and valuing publicly traded companies. His basketball experience includes time as a collegiate player and Assistant Coach at Amherst College, and professional player on the German Bundesliga’s Cologne 99ers. He also later served as the German team’s Assistant GM. While earning his MBA at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, Catanella was a Graduate Assistant on the 2004 and 2005 Duke University Men’s Basketball teams. He developed systems and analytical methods for the team’s coaches, and concurrently interned with the Assistant GM of the Philadelphia 76ers. |
| Ken Pomeroy | Ken Pomeroy has been doing quantitative analysis on college basketball for about ten years. He first experimented with team power ratings, before delving into the finer points of team analysis three years ago when he began posting college statistics on his website, kenpom.com. More recently, Pomeroy’s work has expanded into player analysis as well, where he now computes advanced metrics on all college basketball players in Division I.Ken currently writes for Basketball Prospectus, after spending two years writing for espn.com. He has also contributed his statistical analysis to the Houston Rockets and Baylor University. |
| Kenneth Massey | Kenneth Massey is an American sports statistician well-known for his development of a methodology for ranking and rating sports teams in a variety of sports. His ratings have been a part of the Bowl Championship Series since its inception. |
| Kevin Broom | Kevin Broom has been a columnist at RealGM.com and other basketball related websites. Broom's work includes creation of the Salary Formula, which translates individual statistics to NBA cap dollars; as well as the Diamond Rating, which can help identify players underrated by their per game stats. Broom is also a leader in evaluating defense through collecting and analyzing new statistics not captured in box scores. |
| Kevin Pelton | He is currently a statistical consultant for the Indiana Pacers. Kevin "Al" Pelton is a sportswriter at BasketballProspectus.com and has written for 82games.com, Hoopsworld.com and SI.com. He has worked to acquaint mainstream basketball fans with statistical analysis. He also has been moderating the APBRmetrics forum. |
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