New York, NY September 24: Students, statisticians, developers and engineers take part in the first ever NBA Basketball Analytics Hackathon at Terminal 23 in New York, New Jersey on September 24, 2016 in New York, New York.
Towards the end of September, students from undergraduates to PhDs will fill up a room in New York City, log onto their computers, and spend 24 hours creating potential solutions to the NBA’s most pressing analytics problems in the league’s second annual NBA Hackathon.
The first hackathon in September 2016 was much smaller in scale. According to Jason Rosenfeld, director of basketball analytics for the NBA, teams of students competed for just eight-plus hours, then a few finalists presented their projects to a panel of basketball executives, media and academics.