Billy Fryer’s Website
Hi my name is Billy Fryer and this is my website! Originally, I intended for this website to include only sports analytics work that I do, however after getting my first job with the Indiana Fever, I decided to open it up in terms of content!
About Me
I am currently working for SportsMediaTechnology (SMT) as a part of SMT-U! In my role, I help support the SMT Data Challenge and Data Derbies. It really is a full circle moment for me as I was the inaugural winner of the SMT Data Challenge my senior year of college. I’m excited for what’s to come of this new part of the company!
I previously was the Basketball Data Analyst for the Indiana Fever- the second one in the entire WNBA. I built the program from the ground up including but not limited to pre and post game scouting reports, salary cap and collective bargaining agreement analysis, and plenty of ad hoc analysis. During my tenure, the Fever went from 5 wins the year prior to 13 my first season to 20 my second season including a trip to the playoffs for the first time since 2023.
I previously worked with the NC State Women’s Basketball (2021-2023) and Baseball (2019-2023) teams. I was also the President of the Sports Analytics Club at NC State from 2021-2023. I also interned with John Deere in Summer 2021 and with Sports Reference in Summer 2022 contributing to their launch of the Women’s College Basketball site!
I am from Columbiana, Alabama - a small town halfway between Birmingham and Montgomery that I love dearly. I graduated top of my class in both Statistics and Spanish from North Carolina State University in Spring 2023.
During my junior year of college, the NC State College of Sciences did a feature about me! A link to the article is here: Using Statistics to Support Champions.
Visualizations
AHSAA 5A Region 3 Playoff Scenarios as of Week 8
Demopolis Jemsion Montevallo Northside Selma Shelby County Sipsey Valley
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Tokyo 2020 Beijing 2022
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WNBA Expansion Draft 2025 Rules Predictions
A Brief History of WNBA Expansion WNBA Expansion Timeline from Wikipedia We are in a new Era of WNBA Expansion with 6 new WNBA Teams making their debut from the 2025 season until 2030. Golden State absolutely shattered the ceiling of expansion team fees when they were first announced and that bar has been pushed sky high with the announcement of Philadelphia, Cleveland and the return of Detroit.
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As the WNBA Trade Deadline has now officially come and gone, I wanted to take a look at some historical trade partners in the WNBA. In all of sports, teams traditionally have stronger relations with certain other teams typically in a different division, conference or league (depending on how the league is divided). In the WNBA, this effect is compounded due to the limited number of teams. To read the heat maps below, the team on the vertical axis is the team sending something to the team on the horizontal axis.
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