The first time he saw Stephen Curry play, Davidson professor Tim Chartier told his wife: '' That’s the kid who’s doing really well in Calc I.'' 'I don’t necessarily identify him that way now,' he says. OnlyAGameNPR
The first time he saw Stephen Curry play basketball in 2006, Tim Chartier didn’t know much about the freshman guard.That’s because Tim — or Dr. Chartier, as he’s known around the Davidson campus — is. And earlier that fall, the professors in Dr. Chartier's department had discussed promising students in Calculus I.
And helping scout men's basketball opponents is just a small part of what Cat Stats now does to help Davidson. But getting to this point, forging this alliance between the college’s math experts and its athletes, wasn’t so easy.Seth Kindig started at Davidson in 2010. As a sophomore he took Dr. Chartier’s linear algebra class. Early in the semester, one of Seth’s friends pointed something out about their professor.
But more important to this story than the miming or the Diet Coke was that, since 2009, Dr. Chartier had been using math to predict the outcomes of the NCAA Tournament. As a homework assignment, he’d even had students build their own models to fill out their brackets At the time Matt and the rest of the Davidson staff were like most college basketball coaches: they only looked at traditional stats — such as points, rebounds, turnovers — and they didn’t really know how advanced analytics could be applied to basketball."And they said, ‘Oh, this makes a lot of sense,’"Dr. Chartier recalls."And then they said, ‘Oh, you used mathematics for this?’ And we said, 'Yes.'"The coaches started asking their own questions.
"And so I also was very honest: 'Yes, we can try. But to be quite frank, I don’t know if we’ll actually create something that they can actually use. If you’re OK with that, I’m all in,'"Dr. Chartier recalls."And they said, 'Yes, we want to try.'"Cats Stats ... And An 'Old School' Head Coach "He’s the kind of guy that will be like, 'Ah, I don’t even want to think about analytics.' But then he’ll plan a practice, and it’ll be designed to emphasize certain things that we talked about," Matt says."So, one of those things like, he's listening, but he's not hearing you. Or he's hearing, but he doesn't want you to know that he's listening. So it was delicate."Meanwhile, the three original Cats Stats members faced their own challenges.
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