Our MCM/ICM competition entry: a decision support system for WNBA teams
MCM/ICM 2026 asked us to build a data-driven decision support system for a WNBA team — covering player evaluation, draft strategy, and game tactics.
We named our system Pro-Insight and built it around three components:
1. Player Rating Model — a composite metric combining traditional stats with advanced metrics like VORP and win shares
2. Draft Optimizer — a multi-objective optimization model balancing immediate impact vs long-term development
3. Tactical Recommender — a clustering-based system that identifies opponent tendencies and suggests counter-strategies
Our model identified several undervalued players in the 2025 draft class and produced tactically coherent game plans that outperformed baseline strategies in simulation.