Back to work

2020-2021

Tufts Men's Basketball Scouting

Harnessing the power of tracking data to drive analytics and scouting for collegiate basketball 🏀📊

Basketball AnalyticsData VisualizationSynergyScouting
Tufts Men's Basketball Scouting

Description

Synergy is a data tracking platform used primarily for scouting purposes in collegiate basketball. We created this app to enable coaches to scout opponent teams with a filterable subset of games. Coaches can choose a team to scout, select similar caliper opponents that the scouted team has played, and then view a comprehensive breakdown of that team's strengths and weaknesses through a breakdown play types. The data is displayed in a standard tabular format with complementary data visualizations to drive insights.

Walkthrough of the Synergy scouting app: picking a team, filtering games, and reading the play type breakdown

Motivation

Synergy is an app used for collegiate basketball scouting. Its current bottlenecks include poor organization, poor usability, and lack of practicality in the context of DIII scouting. Most notably, user-facing data tends to be heavily skewed towards landslide games against out-of-conference opponents, rendering insights unactionable.

The Synergy interface coaches were working with before the app

Details

April 2021. Built with Sook-Hee Evans and Noah Zhang in Python and HTML, using Streamlit.