Computer Science pioneer was also hoops analytics pioneer

[mtamada]

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.

[roland_beech]

haha, that's tremendous Michael, thanks for posting the link

[bchaikin]

cwru - must be a hotbed for basketball analytics...

i'm a 1981 graduate from there...

the gym in the video is emerson gym - where i played freshman hoops, intramural, and a ton of pick-up...