# About Clutch Data

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 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 take the specific question
your organization is facing and build the analysis that resolves it.

- **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** — 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. 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, 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](https://www.clutchdata.net/methodology).
- **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, Europe and the Americas.
Public-facing analysis is published at https://clutchdata.substack.com

## Talk to us

- Email: info@clutchdata.net
- Contact: https://www.clutchdata.net/contact

## Links

- [Contact](https://www.clutchdata.net/contact)
- [Methodology](https://www.clutchdata.net/methodology): the MIT Sloan 2026 archetypes paper and the method behind each tool
- [Glossary](https://www.clutchdata.net/glossary): definitions and formulas for every metric we publish
- [Archetypes](https://www.clutchdata.net/solutions/archetypes)
- [Player Projection](https://www.clutchdata.net/solutions/player-projection)
- [Expected Points](https://www.clutchdata.net/solutions/expected-points)
- [Lineup On/Off](https://www.clutchdata.net/solutions/lineup-on-off)
- [Clutch Data Score](https://www.clutchdata.net/solutions/clutch-data-score)
- [EuroLeague standings](https://www.clutchdata.net/euroleague/standings)
- [EuroLeague net rating](https://www.clutchdata.net/euroleague/net-rating)
- [EuroLeague MVP race](https://www.clutchdata.net/euroleague/mvp-race)
- [EuroLeague advanced stats](https://www.clutchdata.net/euroleague/advanced-stats)
- [EuroLeague awards](https://www.clutchdata.net/euroleague/awards)
- [Privacy](https://www.clutchdata.net/privacy)
- [Public analysis (Substack)](https://clutchdata.substack.com)