Computer Science pioneer was also hoops analytics pioneer
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2018 9:51 am
I'd known that famed computer scientist Donald Knuth did basketball analytics when he was an undergraduate at Case Institute of Technology (now Case-Western Reserve University) some 60 years ago. But I hadn't known that IBM had made a film about him at that same time, until I stumbled upon it here.
His model was just a linear weights model, although he was thoughtful about the weights and it may very well have been superior to anything else that existed at that time.
His model was just a linear weights model, although he was thoughtful about the weights and it may very well have been superior to anything else that existed at that time.