Cameron Grove

Sports Analytics Consultant

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Welcome to my website!

I'm a sports analytics consultant & data scientist based in London in the United Kingdom. 

I currently consult for the Cleveland Guardians Baseball Club, developing & improving statistical models to help win baseball games and the World Series.

Before joining the Guardians, I analysed baseball as a hobby. I posted much of my work on Twitter and my blog.

I was previously an astrophysicist at Durham University. I worked on the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) project, simulating the evolution of the universe on a supercomputer to aid with analysis of galaxy surveys.

Previous Work

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PitchingBot

I independently developed one of the more impactful public pitch quality and "stuff" models. This model is now hosted at FanGraphs

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SMT Data Challenge

I won the graduate division of the SMT Data Challenge at UCSAS 2022. My project used player-tracking data to build models that could be used to assess and optimize defensive alignments in baseball

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Motion Tracking Data

I have created an open dataset of pitcher positions measured using computer vision in 60fps for over 1300 pitches thrown by 100 different pitchers

Selected Articles

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Some games are harder to umpire than others

Shortlisted for the SABR Contemporary Baseball Analysis Award 2022
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Don't Let Opposing Hitters See the Same Reliever Too Many Times, Especially in the Postseason.

One of the first articles measuring the familiarity penalty for relief pitchers in repeat matchups
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Introducing xxxFIP

"This might be the worst name I’ve ever heard for a metric, but it’s actually a somewhat interesting metric."

Podcast Appearances

I was a guest on the Effectively Wild podcast in 2022
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