Monumental Sports & Entertainment (MSE) is one of the largest integrated sports and entertainment companies in the country with one of the most diverse partnership groups in all of sports. MSE owns and operates seven major and minor sports teams: 2018 NHL Stanley Cup Champion Washington Capitals, NBA’s Washington Wizards, WNBA’s 2019 Championship Washington Mystics, NBA G League’s Capital City Go-Go, 2021 & 2020 NBA 2K League Champion Wizards District Gaming and Caps Gaming, an esports sub-brand of the Capitals. Additionally, it holds a significant investment in a seventh professional team, Team Liquid, an endemic esports team owned and operated by aXiomatic, in which MSE is an investor.
In September 2022, MSE acquired the regional sports network, then-called NBC Sports Washington and newly rebranded as Monumental Sports Network. Monumental Sports Network now holds the exclusive local television media rights to Capitals’, Wizards’, and Mystics’ games. The network is both a linear channel and a digital operation. Prior to acquiring the linear platform, the digital platform was launched by MSE in 2016, as the first-of-its-kind regional sports network for digital, mobile, and streaming platforms. Those linear and digital platforms are now combined and join Caps Radio, Wizards Radio, MSE Outdoor and Monumental Productions for a full suite of six media enterprises.
In addition to Capital One Arena – a venue which hosts 3M+ visitors across over 250 events annually, MSE also manages MedStar Capitals Iceplex (training facility for the Capitals), MedStar Health Performance Center (training facility for the Wizards, Mystics, and Go-Go) and EagleBank Arena (a 12,000+ live event venue on George Mason University’s campus).
In July 2020, MSE partnered with William Hill (subsequently acquired by Caesars Entertainment) to open the first ever in-arena sportsbook in North America, now called Caesars Sportsbook.
MSE opened “District E powered by Ticketmaster” in the spring of 2023, a flagship esports and entertainment venue. This 14,000-square-foot live-event theater offers a 365-day-a-year series of immersive experiences in esports, music, culinary excellence, event programming, and community events.
MSE proudly promotes its core values for all those that interact with the company. As a member of our team:
- You will provide first-class customer service and value for our fans.
- You will champion a double-bottom line that engages, unifies, and gives back to the community we serve.
- You will work tirelessly to build generationally exceptional teams that compete for championships year after year and create lifelong memories for our fans.
- You will measure performance with specific objectives and metrics and our analysis and decisions are compelled by data.
- You will prize leadership, but you should value teamwork and collaboration and transparency even more. We treat each other with respect. We act with honesty and integrity. We remain humble.
- You will innovate. We are nimble and first to market. We are not averse to risk.
- You will have fun. We are in the business of happiness.
Position Overview: The Washington Mystics Basketball Data Analyst is responsible for designing, testing, and building statistical models and reports to support the Mystics. This position will be an integral component of research efforts and will be a member of a dynamic team consisting of programmers, developers, statisticians, analysts, and data scientists. This role will work closely on projects impacting the decision-making process for the Washington Mystics alongside the Basketball Operations staff.
Are you a proactive self-starter who is passionate about basketball? We'd love to hear from you!
Responsibilities:
- Provide the basketball operations departments with the best empirical data and data analysis available, ensuring objectivity and integrity of information through meticulous analytical models.
- Use data to identify possible solutions to strategic questions, including areas of player evaluation, game management, in-game tactics, roster building, salary cap strategy, and broader WNBA league trends.
- Build and develop systems, analytical models, foundational structures, and machine learning models to support decision-making processes for the Mystics.
- Work with the larger research team to maintain a multidimensional and secure information system that anticipates the needs of the front office and coaching staffs.
- Set up a player database to track player development of overseas prospects in the best international leagues in order to widen the pool of available options when it comes to roster building. Develop and identify critical metrics that can help predict performance of international prospects coming to the WNBA.
- Track and evaluate practice stats to build a practice database that includes individual as well as team metrics to help advise the front office and coaching staff on early trends (outside of game action). Build out an information system that allows decision makers to extrapolate expected outcomes based on practice performance (e.g. developing evidence-based expectations on how practice success in different areas will translate to in-game performance).
- In close collaboration with the front office and the coaching staff, develop a metric that quantifies process of possessions over outcomes (going beyond traditional PPP measurement of performance). Breakdown of game film to evaluate quality of possessions.
- Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in STEM field including Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science, or similar domain.
- Basic knowledge of WNBA, team rosters, and league trends.
- Experience with basketball data, including play-by-play and sports tracking data such as Second Spectrum markings or raw data.
- Experience with standard SQL and other database management tools.
- Experience with data visualization principles and tools.
- Excellent analytical skills with experience researching and analyzing data.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Flexibility to work evenings, weekends, and holidays as needed.
- Past WNBA, NBA, or other basketball operations/research experience.
- Experience using Python, R, or other statistical programming languages.
- Experience with advanced statistical modeling.
- Knowledge of the international basketball scene.
- Experience with basketball video editing software.
Pay Range: $80-105k USD.
Benefit Eligibility: This role is eligible to participate in health and welfare benefits.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Monumental Sports & Entertainment (MSE), located in Washington, DC, and named a 2018 Washington Post Top Workplace, is one of the largest integrated sports and entertainment companies in the country with one of the most diverse partnership groups in all of sports. MSE owns and operates five professional sports teams: NBA's Washington Wizards, NBA G League’s Capital City Go-Go, NBA 2K League’s Wizards District Gaming, the 2018 NHL STANLEY CUP CHAMPION Washington Capitals and the WNBA's Washington Mystics. The company is also co-owner of aXiomatic, which has controlling interest in global esports franchise Team Liquid, and owns and operates Capital One Arena. Monumental Sports & Entertainment also manages MedStar Capitals Iceplex, the state-of-the-art training facility for the Capitals and EagleBank Arena on George Mason University's campus. Monumental Sports & Entertainment also co-owns and operates Monumental Sports Network (MSN) with the NBC Sports Group. MSN is the mid-Atlantic region’s top destination for exclusive fan experiences and original sports content across desktop, tablet, mobile and OTT streaming devices.
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