Like Sports Analytics? You’ll Love This New Student Club

Call it the “Moneyball Effect,” referring to how the Oakland Athletics famously used statistics to build a successful baseball team, but more and more professional sports teams are using and relying on analytics to gain a competitive edge.

It’s no surprise that Carnegie Mellon University – Hockey Analytics Workshop at CMU last fall.

And, junior Maksim Horowitz, an economics and statistics major with a minor in business administration, came up the idea for the new Tartan Sports Analytics Club. The student-run club has 20 founding members and uses in-depth quantitative data to develop an understanding of sports analytics, strategies and management. They have a membership development plan to help teach the club’s members how to work with and analyze data.

“I love sports and the idea dawned upon me last year that I could share this passion with many other students at CMU, so I started our club,” Horowitz said. “We focus on each and every sport. We have members who write about the big 4: baseball, basketball, football and soccer. But we also have members who write about e-sports and mixed martial arts (MMA).”

The club is open to any CMU student interested in sports or in pursuing a career in sports.

"The CMU Tartan Sports Analytics Club is a great opportunity for students to see first-hand how the statistics methodology they learn in the classroom can be used to solve exciting, challenging problems in sports,” said Facebook page.