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Ken Catanella

Ken Catanella is the New Jersey Nets' Coordinator of Statistical Analysis, and one of the few people in the world with a full-time NBA job in advanced basketball analytics.

At Amherst he was both a player and later an assistant coach, and then played professionally for the German Bundesliga's Cologne 99ers, where he also later served as the German team's Assistant GM.

While earning his MBA at Duke in 2004 and 2005, Catanella assisted the men's basketball teams, developing analytical tools and systems for Coach Krzyzewski's staff. At the same time, Catanella interned for the 76ers' front office.

 

 
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

Kevin "Al" Pelton is a sportswriter who covers the Seattle SuperSonics and Seattle Storm for their respective Web sites. Pelton is a columnist for 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 moderates the APBRmetrics forum.

 


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