RESEARCH
Student Research
NHSSAA provides opportunities for high school students to share their research in sports analytics. Submissions for review for the 2025 National High School Sports Analytics Summit will be open soon!
Submission
Criteria
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Presenter must be a high school student. Help from non-high school students is permitted. Only 1 submission per author is allowed.
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Submission must include a well-defined research question, data sources, methodology and clear findings.
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PExact timing per presentation will be determined once the schedule is finalized. Assume roughly 10 minutes but it may change. Research must be in the form of slides and include the following: Title page, Abstract, Methodology, Results and Discussion.
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Student research presentations will be selected by peers on our National Summit Organizing Committee.
Five student presentations were part of the 2024 National High School Sports Analytics Summit.
"Money and Sports Analytics: How Can $5.9 Million = $29.8 Million?"
Ginny Choe, 9th grade, The Winsor School, Boston, MA
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"High School Basketball Stat Keeping (With Just Me and My Phone)"
Zachary Miller
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"Should Major League Baseball Managers Consider the Pitcher When Setting the Lineup?"
Gregor Lesho, 12th grade, Mount Saint Joseph High School, Baltimore, MD
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"Expected Points Above Average (EPAA): A New Metric for Evaluating Football Kickers"
Jayan Gandhi, 11th grade, Buckingham, Browne & Nichols School, Cambridge, MA
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"Real Plus-Minus with Neural Networks"
Lancer Analytics, Saint Francis High School Mountain View, CA
