|
| |
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 (unpublished manuscript)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 (unpublished manuscript)
|
