Cooper Tenney
Data science at Stanford, class of 2028. I build things that answer questions I have about sports, pricing, and how software gets used — mostly because I wanted the answer.
Projects
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2026
Quantifying the Caitlin Clark Externality
A difference-in-differences study isolating one player's effect on WNBA attendance and revenue from league-wide growth. Found $30M+ in surplus revenue and 8,000+ additional fans per game — value the Indiana Fever captured and the player did not.
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2025
NFL Draft Outcome Classifier
A multiclass model predicting pro outcomes for draft prospects, deliberately constrained to draft-day-available inputs only — trading hindsight accuracy for something usable at the moment teams actually pick. ~26% lift over baseline on position-specific models.
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2025 — now
Pricing Audit Platform
Ingests arbitrary datasets and runs automated data-quality and pricing audits — column detection, outlier analysis, feature importance — behind a Streamlit interface that lets a non-technical user configure a model run and read the diagnostics.
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2025
Fantasy Football Draft Board
A live-draft ranking tool with custom tiering, built because every existing option was either paywalled or unusable during an actual draft. Designed the interface from scratch.
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2025
Roster Check-In
Attendance tracking for Stanford Club Baseball, replacing a clipboard and a group chat. Built for a specific ~40-person program with specific problems.
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2025
Dues Reconciliation
Matches incoming Zelle transfers against a member roster to close out a dues cycle without manual bookkeeping. Unglamorous, and the thing that saved the most hours.
Elsewhere
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2024
Diamond Dollars Case Competition
Won SABR's 2024 competition with a model estimating the expected run value of foul balls, and a "foul ball ability" metric for evaluating swing decisions. Presented to MLB front-office executives.