Great piece by Cade Massey and Zach Drapkin on draft value space for Pro Football Focus. Apr 28, 2021 Last Friday, the Kansas City Chiefs acquired offensive tackle Orlando Brown Jr. from the Baltimore Ravens in a trade involving six draft picks. How did the teams value such a complicated…Read More
Adi Wyner, Co-Director of Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative presented at the SABR Virtual Analytics Conference, presented by Major League Baseball, Rawlings, and Sports Info Solutions, on March 14, 2021. The conference brings together the top minds in the baseball analytics community to discuss, debate, and share insightful ways…Read More
On Saturday, February 20, 2021, the University of Pennsylvania’s John R. Rockwell Head Coach of Men’s Basketball, Steve Donahue, was a special guest analyst on the CBS Sports Network’s broadcast of the BYU-Loyola Marymount NCAA Division 1 men’s basketball game. Undergraduate students from the Penn Sports Analytics Group (PSAG) joined…Read More
Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative (WSABI) had a chance to connect with Wharton’s recent alumni, W’19 Kelly Schrader and Associate at the National Basketball Association (NBA). In her interview, Kelly talks about what helped her break into sports business, shares advice to current students, and her view on esports.…Read More
Sharing Knowledge@Wharton article and a podcast with Professor Abraham Wyner and MLB player Brendan Harris discussing how increased reliance on analytics is changing Big League rosters. Baseball legend Yogi Berra defied math logic but still made complete sense to game enthusiasts when he famously said, “Baseball is 90% mental. The other half is physical.”…Read More
Check out the article in Technical.ly on launching Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative (WSABI). The new resource and research center for use by students and faculty was created out of a growing interest in sports betting, data and esports. By Paige Gross University of Pennsylvania announced this week that it…Read More
We continue to connect with Wharton alumni to share their inspiring career stories in the sports industry. This week, Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative (WSABI) had the opportunity to speak with Jeffrey Seltzer, Managing Partner at Pierce Yates Ventures and W’78. Jeff was the 2019 recipient of the Penn…Read More
This week, Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative (WSABI) had the opportunity to connect with Joanna Levy, Director of Strategy and Analytics at Philadelphia Flyers and WG’18. Joanna shared her story of building a career in the sports industry, advice to current students and lessons learned throughout her career. Please…Read More 
PHILADELPHIA, December 4, 2019 — The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania announced today the establishment of the Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative (WSABI). WSABI represents an expansion of school-wide sports business activities by building on the Wharton Sports Business Initiative (WSBI), founded in 2008. The addition of sports analytics…Read More
The article below by Stephen Diorio, Forbes, features Professor Adi Wyner, faculty co-Lead for WSABI on Four Lessons for Building High Performance Revenue Enablement Teams Growing revenue has emerged as the ultimate team sport. Selling to a digitally empowered customer across many channels requires a wider variety of functional roles,…Read More
