Profiles

  David H. Annis, Ph.D. is founder and principal of SportsQuant.  He is also Vice President, Director of Quantitative Analysis of Wachovia's Internal Audit division.  Previously, he was an Assistant Professor in the Operations Research Department at the Naval Postgraduate School.  A graduate mechanical engineer, he worked as a designer for an international flight propulsion company before returning to academia to earn his doctorate in mathematical statistics.  In addition to his work in sports modeling, Dr. Annis's eclectic interests have resulted in published research papers in experimental design, antimicrobial testing, materials science (fatigue and non-destructive evaluation) and pedagogy1.  He ran a marathon in under four hours (3:53, Cincinnati, 2001), shot 87 at Pebble Beach (1997) and was a player/coach on an intramural championship basketball team as an undergraduate. A lifelong football fan, his first experience at a professional game was at ALLTEL Stadium, where he watched the Jaguars defeat the San Francisco 49ers in the 1996 preseason.

1. Dr. Annis was also recognized for his outstanding teaching by the Operations Research Department at the Naval Postgraduate School in 2005.

Sports Research

  • Annis, D. H. (2007) Dimension Reduction for Hybrid Paired Comparison Models. Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 3 (2)
  • Annis, D. H. and Wu, S. S. (2007) Improved College Football Scheduling Using a Pseudo-Swiss System. Chance, 20 (1), 6-10.
  • Annis, D. H. (2006) Optimal End-Game Strategy in Basketball. Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports.  (to appear)
  • Annis, D. H. and Wu, S. S. (2006) A Comparison of Potential Playoff Systems for NCAA I-A Football. The American Statistician, 60 (2), 151-157.
  • Annis, D. H. and Craig, B. A. (2005) Hybrid Paired Comparison Analysis, with Applications to the Ranking of College Football Teams. Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 1 (1). [See my college football rankings here.]
  • Annis, D. H. and Wu, S. S. (2005) Some Properties of Playoff Systems for NCAA I-A Football. Proceedings of the 2005 Joint Statistical Meetings; Section on Statistics in Sports. (to appear)
  • Annis, D. H. (2005) Adjusting Player Game Percentage for Differences in Schedule. (unpublished manuscript)
  • Annis, D. H. (2005) Approximate Conditional Inference for Evaluating Managerial Performance. (unpublished manuscript)
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