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Become a Sports Quantitative Analyst

Analysts and researchers who want modeling work they can defend in a technical conversation, from clean analysis through full Bayesian workflows.

Enrolling16 weeks · Foundations to Applied modeling to Capstone and Film Room
The game plan

16 weeks, week by week.

Not a reading list. Each phase carries the skills you work on, what exists at the end of it, and what you can do by then.

Languages and tools across the program
PythonRStanPyMC
Weeks 1 to 4

Foundations

The analysis layer everything else sits on, and the working habits that make it reviewable by someone other than you.

In these weeks
  • Python and pandas on real sports data
  • Reproducible project structure, not notebooks in a folder
  • End-to-end git workflow: branches, review, and QA gates before anything lands
  • Exploratory analysis that answers a stated question
  • Mentor one-to-one every second week, on your own work
What exists at the end
A reproducible analysisA reviewed pull request
By now you can

Take a messy sports dataset and produce an analysis another person can clone, run, and get the same numbers from.

Weeks 5 to 10

Applied modeling

Uncertainty done properly, coded rather than called, in both ecosystems the job descriptions name.

In these weeks
  • Bayesian workflow in Stan and in PyMC
  • GLMs, then hierarchical models with real partial pooling
  • Prior predictive and posterior predictive checks
  • Model comparison, and knowing when to stop trusting a fit
  • Simulated technical interviews, recorded and reviewed
  • Mentor one-to-one every second week, on your own work
What exists at the end
A hierarchical model, fit and checkedA model criticism writeup
By now you can

Specify a hierarchical model, defend the priors you chose, and show the diagnostics that say whether it worked.

Weeks 11 to 16

Capstone and Film Room

The build, then the two rooms it has to survive: a technical one and a non-technical one.

In these weeks
  • Capstone model built end to end on a question you choose
  • Uncertainty-honest forecasts, intervals as the deliverable
  • Front-office presentation practice: the recommendation, and the pushback
  • AI orchestration training: planning work for delegation, delegated builds, browser QA
  • Simulated technical interviews, recorded and reviewed
  • Mentor one-to-one every week through the capstone
What exists at the end
The capstone modelA presentation deckA portfolio writeup
By now you can

Present a model to a room that is not technical, and answer the pushback without retreating into jargon.

The Coaching Room

Practice with somebody on the other side of the table.

AI coaching is built into the practice sessions. The coach takes the stakeholder's part, and you work the problem in whatever medium the question actually calls for.

What that means literally: AI coaching built into practice sessions, stakeholder simulation where you present to a general manager and defend a decision to a director, and no-code visual builds alongside code builds, because plenty of the work is a sketch or a plan rather than a script.

AI as copilot, not autopilot. We teach you to direct the machine and defend the output. The part that is scarce is not producing an answer; it is knowing whether the answer is right and being able to say why in a room that will push back.

Where it points

The roles this work is hired for.

Named because they are the roles the skills above are used in, not because we are promising you one of them.

Roles this stack is hired for
Sports Quantitative AnalystResearch AnalystData ScientistQuantitative ResearcherBaseball Operations Analyst

These are the roles the work in this program is used in. We describe what you build and what you can do with it, and we do not promise a job, a placement, or an interview.

Simulated practice

A clock, a real task, and a room that pushes back.

The part most programs describe and never show. Here is how it actually runs, and the kind of question it runs on.

Practice runs in a timed provisioned environment, the same one the sessions run in. You get a real task and a clock, not a quiz. The session is recorded, and the review afterwards is about the reasoning you showed rather than whether you reached the expected answer.

Scenarios are written the way the question actually arrives
  • A coach asks: our closer has thrown 9 innings in 6 days, what does the fatigue data say about tonight?
  • A director asks: this projection has us winning 4 more games than last year. How confident are you, and what would change your mind?
  • An executive asks: explain to me, without the word posterior, why this model disagrees with what our scouts think.
Not into sports?

Then take the method and leave the sport.

Sports is the hook. Hierarchical modeling, uncertainty, and honest inference are the methods, and they are hired for wherever a decision has to be made from noisy, grouped, incomplete data.

  • Pharma Clinical trials are hierarchical modeling with the stakes raised
  • Finance Trading and risk teams pay for calibrated uncertainty, not point estimates
  • Marketing Marketing mix modeling is partial pooling under another name
  • Polling Election modeling is the same problem: small samples, grouped structure
  • Insurance Pricing and reserving run on exactly this stack
Running alongside

The spine that does not change by phase.

One-to-one mentor sessions on your own work, fortnightly through the taught weeks and weekly through the capstone. Simulated technical interviews, recorded and reviewed. Front-office presentation practice, where a recommendation meets a room that pushes back. The Film Room once a month, alternating portfolio teardowns and interview preparation from the hiring side. See The Film Room

Modeling is the live track running alongside the program, so the weekly sessions and the game plan are pulling in the same direction rather than competing for your evenings.

This program is a defined credential pathway culminating in a verifiable digital badge issued through Credly, a Pearson company. We provide completion records. We are not a degree-granting or accrediting institution. If a formal credential is a requirement for you, this complements an accredited pathway rather than replacing it.

Next step

Start with a conversation.

There is no public price and no checkout on this page. Programs start with a call, because the honest answer is sometimes that the Masterclass is the better place to begin.

Book an application call

A short conversation about where you are now and whether this is the right route. If it is not, we will say so.

Book an application call

Every live room, the recordings, the code, and the environment, behind one door.

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See how it is taught first.

Sit in on a live session. It is the fastest way to judge any of this.