It was April 2, and in the same manner as a lottery draft pick, Jeremy Dumalig ’20 got the call. Starting in June, he would be a Basketball Operations Assistant for the Brooklyn Nets.
It felt like a full circle moment: Dumalig’s journey in sports analytics started with a Nueva Quest project and a 10th-grade data analytics elective. For a midterm assignment, he analyzed a data set of every shot Kobe Bryant took in his career, tracking shot location, shot type, opponent, and outcome.
In the summer as a rising junior Dumalig attended the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Moneyball Academy program, where he solidified his love for sports analytics and decided to pursue it for his 11th and 12th grade Quest project: Using Python, he created an interactive roster builder where users could experiment with the NBA salary cap.
