Bronx, N.Y. - Sports fans have recently witnessed the role of analytics expand rapidly across the landscape of professional and collegiate athletics. This wave of data-driven thinking has allowed teams and athletes to gain a significant advantage over their opponents, improving their odds of putting a winning product on the field. For the past decade, professional sports teams have had the luxury of dedicating entire departments to the statistical analysis of their players and those around the league. At the collegiate level, this same phenomenon has taken shape – only on a much smaller scale and at the margins.
 
Fordham Athletics is excited to announce our partnership with the Fordham Sports Analytics Society. This partnership will allow Fordham University to become one of the select few universities with access to full-fledged student-run research teams for varsity sports including, but not limited to, baseball, men's basketball, women's basketball, men's soccer, and women's soccer.
 
"In the ever-changing landscape of college athletics, analytics plays a crucial role in the success of a program," said Ed Kull, Director of Athletics. "I am thrilled to be partnering with the Fordham Sports Analytics Society to bring this technology to our Fordham Athletics programs. Our Fordham students are full of innovative ideas and technical expertise and we are excited to collaborate with them to continue the Fordham Athletics tradition."
 
The student analysts will be involved in the collection, manipulation, analysis, and/or reporting of player and team data for various sport-specific research projects. The projects will range from scouting reports on opposing teams to reports on current trends in collegiate sports.
 
About the Fordham Sports Analytics Society
 
The Fordham Sports Analytics Society was formed in 2020 under the leadership of Peter Majors (President) and Connor Dwyer (Vice President). During the 2021 Spring Semester, the club's first full semester of operations, it held a total of 23 meetings, published 14 peer-reviewed research articles, held 6 guest speaker events, and won Student Organization and Programming's New Club of the Year Award. The second-year organization is currently 83 members strong and is looking forward to an even more productive 2021-22 academic year.
 
The club is looking for students passionate about sports analytics who would like to work within one of its research teams to improve the on-field performance of Fordham Athletics. If you are interested in joining one of these teams and working directly with Fordham Athletics for this upcoming academic year, please complete our sign-up form. If you have any questions, please contact sportsanalytics@fordham.edu. If you would like to join the Fordham Sports Analytics Society's email list to be notified of future meetings and offerings, please complete our sign-up form.
 
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