Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative
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Spring 2025 Edition of the Wharton Sports Analytics Journal Is Now Live
Explore the latest in student-led research at the intersection of data, strategy, and sport. The Spring 2025 edition of the Wharton Sports Analytics Journal features original work from undergraduate and graduate students across disciplines, offering fresh insights into performance analysis, team management, fan engagement, and more.
2025 Wharton High School Data Science Competition Winners Announced!
This year’s competition brought together high school students from around the globe to tackle real-world sports analytics challenges using data science. Congratulations to our 2025 champions — Full Court Analysts from Lambert High School, The Bruzz from Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, and Data Dunk from Neerja Modi School! We’re proud of every team that participated and inspired us with their creativity, teamwork, and data-driven thinking.
The Wharton Sports Analytics & Business Initiative Partners with PFF FC on Trailblazing Sports Analytics Research
We are thrilled to announce that the Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative (WAIAI) and the Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative (WSABI) are entering into a new partnership with PFF FC, a soccer-based spinoff of the best-in-class sports analytics group PFF.
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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