Sports Data
Moneyball, the movie about the early 2000's Oakland Athletics, included that team heavily prioritizing this specific hitting metric over traditional batting average.
What is On-Base Percentage (OBP)?
Following landmark NCAA rule changes in 2021, college athletes gained the legal right to monetize these three specific marketing components.
What is Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL)?
The champion of the NHL is awarded this historic trophy, originally donated in 1892 by the Governor General of Canada.
What is the Stanley Cup?
The official student section for Purdue Men’s Basketball inside Mackey Arena gets its name from this historic and current coaching connection.
Name 2 professional teams we have previously done projects with
2 of:
Indiana Pacers, Fever, Lafayette Aviators, Purdue MBB
Powering the NFL's "Next Gen Stats," real-time speed, location, and acceleration is tracked using RFID chips embedded directly inside this piece of player equipment.
What are shoulder pads?
In 1984, Nike signed this NBA rookie to a groundbreaking $2.5 million endorsement deal, creating a signature sneaker line that eventually spun off into its own multi-billion dollar brand.
Who is Michael Jordan?
Unlike every other franchise in the four major North American sports leagues, this NFL team is owned by over 500,000 public shareholders and operates as a non-profit corporation.
Who are the Green Bay Packers?
This 2001 Rose Bowl starter cemented Purdue's reputation as the "Cradle of Quarterbacks.
Who is Drew Brees?
We have been a club for this many semesters, including this one.
what is 5 semesters?
In soccer performance modeling, this predictive metric calculates the exact statistical probability (between 0.0 and 1.0) of a shot resulting in a goal based on historical pitch locations and assist types.
What is Expected Goals (xG)?
This dedicated room or designated seating area in a stadium is reserved specifically for reporters, broadcasters, and team statisticians to cover the game.
What is a press box?
Before relocating to Washington D.C. in 2005 to become the Nationals, this MLB franchise played its home games split between Olympic Stadium and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Who are the Montreal Expos?
Purdue football's innovative head coach who popularized the spread offense—affectionately dubbed "basketball on grass"—leading the Boilermakers to the 2001 Rose Bowl.
Who is Joe Tiller?
Name 3 of the 4 people currently on exec.
3 of :
Sam Shlau, Josh Peek, Kabeer Khubbar, Arjun Kalath
In basketball analytics, this metric measures the efficiency of a player or team by adjusting traditional field-goal percentage to award 50% more weight to three-pointers.
What is Effective Field Goal Percentage (eFG%)?
In a famous 2010 Super Bowl commercial, this candy brand launched its "You're not you when you're hungry" campaign featuring 88-year-old Betty White getting tackled in a backyard football game.
What is Snickers?
In 2021, this cryptocurrency exchange signed one of the richest naming-rights deals in sports history, committing a reported $700 million over 20 years to rename the Los Angeles arena formerly known as the Staples Center.
What is Crypto.com?
In this year in the 21st century, Purdue Men's Baseball set a program record with 45 wins and captured their first-ever Big Ten Tournament title.
What is 2012?
Name our first president.
Who is Patrick Anderson?
Widely used in modern football analytics to evaluate play-calling efficiency, this metric measures the net difference between a team's scoring expectation before a play versus the scoring expectation after the play.
What is Expected Points Added (EPA)?
This marketing term describes the tactic where non-sponsor brands launch unauthorized campaigns around major events like the FIFA World Cup or Olympics to associate with the tournament without paying rights fees.
What is Ambush Marketing?
After challenging Major League Baseball's reserve clause in a landmark 1972 Supreme Court case, this Cardinals outfielder paved the way for modern free agency in North American pro sports.
Who is Curt Flood?
Before Zach Edey broke the record in 2024, this legendary sharpshooter known as "The Rocket" held Purdue Men's Basketball's all-time scoring record with 2,323 career points—achieved without the three-point line.
Who is Rick Mount?
Which if our previous guest speakers is a Purdue Data Science alumni?
Who is Jeremy Frank?