Timeline

Age: 11 Years Old

Amazon.com: Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game: 0352749455567:  Lewis, Michael: Books
Moneyball: How Analytics Allowed a Small Market Team to Compete

Reading how his local team, the Oakland Athletics, overcame insurmountable odds with the use of data inspired Elliot to dive deeper into sports analytics. He went on to read books such as Bill James and Nate Silver in his early teens.

By Nate Silver: “The King of Data Science” (New York Times)
By: Bill James (American Baseball Statistician)

Age: 16 Years Old

After creating a sports picks website and receiving $500 of orders the first month, Elliot closed the website because his parents understandably did not want to be liable for their teenager’s business.


Age: 18 Years Old

Elliot attended the University of Oregon

A leading sports business school in the country


Elliot joined as a founder of the Warsaw Sports Analytics Club


Elliot created a sports analytics company that beats competitor fantasy sports analytics companies (RotoWire, FantasyCruncher), NBA and WNBA algorithms by 3%…

while completing the Data Science with R track at Datacamp

(22 courses)


Joined a Y-Combinator backed company

PerspectiveUX is a Y-Combinator backed venture that furnishes feedback-management tools to hear the voices of your customer better, so you can devote your time to building the products you know best.


Co-founded the funded startup, Marakana (now Rival)

Markana Sport (now getrival) addresses pain points in scouting sports talent by implementing computer vision in a mobile application, democratizing talent scouting and discovery to anyone with a smartphone device.