Personal Website projects + thoughts + other
- github: @abeard1
- twitter: @albeardllday
- one page resume
Open Source
- Sports Ref Scraper: Currently working on adding Euro baskeball (done), MLB, and college basketball support to @mgoldberg’s sportsref scraper python library
- ESPN Fantasy Basketball API: My fork of espnff adapts it to fantasy basketball instead of football - works, but still in progress.
Sports Analysis
- Independent Study: Used a network-based approach to attempt to standardize international basketball statistics. The current draft can be found here
- NBA Hackathon Submission
From my old blog:
School Projects
- Petrobras Long Term Debt Analysis: For this project, I focused on simulating Petrobras’s long term debt compared to their ability to pay, based on several factors. The output from my R code can be seen mainly in exhibits 6 through 19.
Case Competitions
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ICBC Entry: Together with my partner, we qualified for the final round of the ICBC case competition in Kingston, Ontario, in the MIS category, which we ended up winning.
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NIBS Entry: I did most of the financial analysis/projections for the UVM first round entry in the NIBS case competition. Our first round entry was in the top 3 of the 40+ schools that entered, and in the final round in San Antonio, we had the highest score overall before we lost in a head to head matchup.
Other
- Jupyter Notebook Server How-To
- Celtics Cap Breakdown: Right after it came out that Gordon Hayward was coming to Boston, I took a look at possible path to keeping Jae Crowder, Marcus Smart, and Avery Bradley, because I had seen it reported that they couldn’t keep all three. I tweeted about it, and discussed with a few people more knowledgable about the cap than me, but before we could come to a consensus, Bradley was traded to the Pistons.