Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative
A global leader in advancing the intersection of analytics and business within the sports industry.
2024 Wharton Sports Business Summit
The Wharton Sports Business Summit will take place on November 8 in Philadelphia at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Founded in 2017, the Wharton Sports Business Summit is organized by the Wharton Undergraduate Sports Business Club (WUSBC) with the support of the Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative (WSABI). The summit features keynote presentations, coffee chats, and valuable networking opportunities with experts in the sports business realm.
Wharton High School Data Science Competition: Year Two
In conjunction with the Wharton Global Youth Program, the Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative is thrilled to host the second annual Wharton High School Data Science Competition. This year’s theme is basketball, and participants will work with statistics like those used by sports teams worldwide. Mark your calendars and sign up to be notified when registration opens on January 6.
Preparing the Next Generation of Analysts: Inside the Wharton Sports Analytics Research Lab
This summer, the Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative (WSABI) hosted its second Sports Analytics Research Lab, an intensive program designed to deepen students’ expertise in data science and statistics through hands-on research in sports analytics. We caught up with Wharton students Sofia Boubsis and Justin Hughes to hear how their summer went.
Wharton Moneyball Podcast Celebrates its 10-Year Anniversary
The popular Sirius XM radio show celebrated its 10-year anniversary this March, marking a decade of insightful, free-flowing, and data-backed conversations about the world of sports and statistics. To celebrate, Eric Bradlow, Vice Dean of Analytics at Wharton, Shane Jensen, Professor of Statistics and Data Science, Cade Massey, Faculty Director of the Wharton People Lab, and Adi Wyner, Faculty Co-Director of WSABI, got together to chat about their memories of the past and ambitions for the show’s future.
What Role Can AI Play in Sports?
Wharton professors Adi Wyner and Cade Massey join Eric Bradlow, vice dean of Analytics at Wharton, to discuss how AI — along with statistics and data science — can assist with tracking data, player evaluation, making predictions, and more. This interview is part of a special 10-part series called “AI in Focus.”
Changing the Game
The 2023 Fall/Winter issue of Wharton Magazine featured the Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative as the cover story on sports analytics, with insights from alumni leaders in the field as well as cutting-edge research led by WSABI.
Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative News
The Wharton High School Data Science Competition Wins Big
During the winter of 2023 and spring of 2024 more than 280 teams of high school students from around the globe competed in the first ever Wharton High School Data Science Competition, hosted by the Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative (WSABI) and Wharton Global Youth Program.
Soaring with the Eagles: Wharton Student Lands Data Job with NFL
Where most sports fans see raw talent, Zach Drapkin (W ’22) sees raw data – the kind of data he likes to sift through to help athletes and teams optimize their approach to games.
Italian Basketball Team Pallacanestro Trieste Partners with Wharton for an Analytics-Focused Future
Thanks to new ownership and some analytics-focused students, the team’s future and the business school look to be inextricably linked.
Penn Students Detail Their Analytics Internships in the NFL
Wharton students Zach Drapkin (W’22) and Sarah Hu (W’23), Wharton Undergraduate Sports Business Club Board Members, share their “once-in-a-lifetime experiences” interning for their favorite NFL teams.
2024 Race and Sports Event with William C. Rhoden
Wharton’s Ken Shropshire joined William C. Rhoden, former award-winning sports columnist for The New York Times thanks to a partnership between the Wharton Coalition for Equity and Opportunity, the Center for Africana Studies, and the Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative.
Penn Students Place Top-4 in 2023 Syracuse University Basketball Analytics Competition
Penn students Jake Federman (CAS’25), Naomi Korn (CAS’24), Justin Lipitz (W’23), and Elan Roth (CAS’25) for placing top-4 in the 2023 Syracuse University Basketball Analytics Competition.
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