Mr. Alamar is the founding editor of the Journal of
Quantitative Analysis in Sport, a professor of sports management at
Menlo College and the Senior Quantitative Analyst for the Oklahoma
City Thunder of the NBA. He has published academic research in
football, basketball and baseball, has presented sports related
work at the annual conventions of the Society for American Baseball
Research, the American Statistical Society and the New England
Symposium on Statistics in Sports. Additionally he is coauthor of
the annual Pro Football Prospectus. Professionally he has consulted
for teams in the NBA and NFL and provided statistical analysis for
author Michael Lewis for his recent book The Blind Side. Professor
Alamar is also an award winning economist who has worked
academically and professionally in intellectual property valuation,
public finance and public health. He received his PhD in economics
from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 2001.
