Yates joins the front office after two seasons with the University of Massachusetts Men's Hockey team where she served as the Director of Analytics. In addition to her role at UMASS, she has been working as a Graduate Student Research Fellow within the Analytics department at the NHL's Boston Bruins since May of 2021. She is on track this spring to graduate from the University of Massachusetts with a dual-Masters in Business Administration and Sport Management, and will join the Flyers at the conclusion of UMASS hockey season.
A native of Harrison, NY, Yates also served as the Director of Analytics and Hockey Operations Coordinator for the Boston University men's ice hockey team. She graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 2014 in biology, concentrating in physiology and biotechnology. She completed a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering at Boston University in 2016 while part of the Terriers' hockey staff.
Anderson joins the Flyers staff as Lead Data Scientist and previously worked in the same role across various industries, most recently in software and e-commerce. He has applied his quantitative skills in hockey analytics in the public domain as well as various consulting roles including Sportlogiq, a sports statistics vendor, and as an analytics advisor for the Chicago Steel of the United States Hockey League (USHL).
Prior to a career as a Data Scientist, Anderson was an Antitrust Economist, where his project work included support of NHL CBA negotiations. Anderson played four seasons as a goaltender for Amherst College in Massachusetts where he was named First-Team All-American and earned NESCAC All-Academic honors, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Economics.
Yates and Anderson join the Flyers Analytics department, which now consists of five full-time staff members led by Ian Anderson, Director of Hockey Analytics, and includes Jacob Hurlbut, Assistant Director of Hockey Analytics and Matthew Karliner, Hockey Analyst.
