Hi! I’m a Georgetown University economics PhD candidate (CV), RSPA elite professional coach, and former college player. I combine serve and volleying with heavy topspin counterpunching, am always up for singles or doubles, and would love to see balldogs on tour one day. I also do sports economics research for tennis, football, soccer, and baseball, which is featured below:
Disequilibrium Play in Tennis. With Axel Anderson, John Rust, and Kin-ping Wong. (Published in the Journal of Political Economy, 133(1), 2025, 190-251, article link)
- Analyze Match Charting Project serve data with econometrics and game theory
- Contrary to previous research, find that the serve strategies of elite players are suboptimal
- Our dynamic best-response strategies may significantly increase their odds of holding serve
- Featured in Istanbul Ticaret (2024), Reading (2024), James Madison (2023), Australian National (2022), Toronto (2022, 2020), Binghamton (2022), Arizona (2022), Norwegian School of Economics (2021), Stanford (2021), Barcelona School of Economics (2021), Copenhagen (2021), Syracuse (2021), and Georgetown (2021) (slides, video)
Estimating Dynamic Dependence in Sequential Contests: Evidence from Professional Tennis. With Nicolas Legrand. (Work in progress)
- Test the null hypothesis that points are independent and identically distributed (iid)
- Investigate if there is a “hot hand” effect and if servers struggle on important points
- Featured in the Southern Economic Association Conference (2025) (slides)
Data-Driven Drafting: Applying Econometrics to Employ Quarterbacks. With Alexandre Olbrecht. (Published in Contemporary Economic Policy, 38(2), 2020, 313-326, article link)
- Use college quarterbacks’ statistics to accurately predict their NFL performance
- Find that functional mobility predicts NFL success, but pro-style experience doesn’t
- Featured in ESPN (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021), FTN Fantasy (2025), Football Outsiders (2023, 2022a, 2022b, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018), The Q Factor: The Elusive Search for the Next Great NFL Quarterback by Super Bowl-winning coach Brian Billick and James Dale, and the Eastern Economic Association Conference (2017)
Resource Optimization Under Asymmetric Spillovers in the NFL. With Satyam Anand. (Working paper)
- Estimate the marginal win productivity of NFL quarterbacks
- Provide evidence of teams misvaluing players between 2011 and 2024
- Featured in Football Outsiders and the EEA Conference (2025, 2019) (slides)
Optimal Replacement of Harry Kane: An Empirical Model of Daniel Levy. With Satyam Anand and Axel Anderson. (Work in progress)
- Estimate the production function of Big Five European soccer clubs
- Estimate player valuations and model the determinants of transfer activity
Investigating Sign Stealing in Major League Baseball. With Alexandre Olbrecht. (Work in progress)
- Uncover patterns of the Houston Astros’ sign stealing in 2017, 2018, and possibly 2019
- Show how to detect sign stealing, which may deter other teams from cheating in the future
- Featured in Baseball Prospectus and Sign Stealing Scandal
