My name is William Graif, and I am entering my senior year of high school in Westchester, NY. I fell in love with both sports, especially basketball, and numbers at a very young age, and people who know me describe me as having an "analytical mind." I do not know whether the egg or the chicken came first, but I currently hold the second overall rank in chess for 11th graders in the United States and am a two-time national champion for my age group. An official US National Master by the age of 14 (accomplished by only a few-dozen other Americans ever), I've competed in Vietnam, Turkey, Dubai, and Greece in the World Youth Chess Championships, earning 56th for Under 14-year-olds internationally in Dubai.
I could not have done this project without my partner, Patrick Walther, who is my age and lives near me; the two of us met this very summer at a fantastic summer program called the "Wharton Moneyball Academy" where we in fact learned about sports analytics from Professor Wyner, an excellent statistics professor at Wharton. Pat is as well-versed in basketball analytics as I, and even more so in baseball. In addition to invaluable advice, guidance, and consultation, he was the chief coder for this project.
- Outline
- Coefficients
- Grooming the Data Set
- Final Rankings
I could not have done this project without my partner, Patrick Walther, who is my age and lives near me; the two of us met this very summer at a fantastic summer program called the "Wharton Moneyball Academy" where we in fact learned about sports analytics from Professor Wyner, an excellent statistics professor at Wharton. Pat is as well-versed in basketball analytics as I, and even more so in baseball. In addition to invaluable advice, guidance, and consultation, he was the chief coder for this project.
- Outline
- Coefficients
- Grooming the Data Set
- Final Rankings
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