A team built at the intersection of basketball and data.
Clutch Data is a basketball analytics consultancy. We are a distributed team of analysts and basketball professionals working across Europe and the Americas, and our client work is concentrated in European competition: EuroLeague, EuroCup, the Basketball Champions League and domestic first divisions.
Our backgrounds combine data engineering and analytics with real experience as players and coaches in professional basketball environments. That combination is why we ask different questions than a pure analytics firm, and why we communicate answers differently than a pure basketball staff would. A model that a coaching staff cannot act on before Friday is not a useful model.
What we actually do
We do not sell a platform, a dashboard or a data feed. We do not add another tool to your stack. We take the specific question your organization is facing (a signing, a rotation, a performance problem) and we build the analysis that resolves it. Specific to your system, specific to your context, specific to your decision.
- Roster construction. Defining the gap in your roster before you enter the transfer market, using probabilistic player archetypes and cross-league performance projection.
- Lineup optimization. Finding which combinations actually produce, separating player-level problems from ecosystem-level ones.
- Opponent scouting. Tendency and matchup work built for a coaching staff's preparation week, not for a slide deck.
- Performance diagnostics. Telling you what separates your wins from your losses, and whether current form is sustainable or about to break.
How we work
Senior-only team: every engagement is handled directly by lead analysts, with no account managers and no juniors learning on your season. Engagements start with a 30-minute confidential call in which we listen to the problem, without slides or a product demo. If we can help, we tell you how; if we cannot, we say so.
Everything a club shares with us stays with us. We work under confidentiality as a default, not as an upgrade, which is why most of our client work is not named publicly.
Track record
- MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference 2026. Accepted paper: "Scouting Anyone: Probabilistic Player Archetypes for Any League." Read how it works.
- European club. Lineups optimization, season 2023-24.
- South American club. First playoff appearance in five years, season 2023-24.
- European women's club, newly promoted. Playoff qualification, season 2023-24.
Founded in 2022. More than 40 years of combined experience across two continents. Our public analysis, the depth we are willing to show before an engagement, is published on clutchdata.substack.com.
Talk to us
If you are entering a transfer window, carrying a signing that is not producing, or trying to explain a season to your ownership with something better than instinct, that is the conversation we are built for. Reach us at info@clutchdata.net or through the contact page.