Interesting cover story in the most recent Analytics magazine from INFORMS. It tells the story of how The Perduco Group, a small defense consulting firm out of Dayton, Ohio, started offering services in the field of sports analytics. Yes, right now it appears the firm only has one lead analyst in the sports realm, but they still have a variety of interesting services/offerings.

The most interesting offering in the sports realm was in the scheduling of the travel of scouts. It makes sense that you would want to maximize the time your scouts spend viewing high value recruits while minimizing travel costs. Once schedules and players of interest are inputted, it seems like a great area for automation/optimization. Great idea.

A small company that focuses on defense and sports. Seems right up my alley.

(Image from The Perduco Group’s website http://www.theperducogroup.com/#!scout-scheduling/c1gq4. Click on the image to see it a bit larger.)