About
Quinn Brighton
Applied Mathematics–Computer Science, Brown University, class of 2027. Club Captain, Brown Sailing.
Applied Mathematics–Computer Science, Brown University, class of 2027. Club Captain, Brown Sailing.
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What this site is
Data-Driven Sailing is a statistics project on college and high school sailing results that I built and operate on my own, starting in 2025. It fits a rating to every sailor from 1.5 million boat-race results, tests those ratings on races they have not seen, forecasts regattas and team races, and publishes the lot as a nightly-rebuilt site of about 120,000 pages. The methodology page is the evaluation, the engineering page is how it runs, and the notes are what the data shows.
In numbers
Season-ahead pairwise accuracy70.4% (Elo 68.7%)
Championships, ratings frozen the week before72.4% (71.6–73.3)
Boat-race results1.58 million
Sailors rated23,824
Lines of Pythonabout 72,000
Tests325
Team size1
Nightly rebuild20–40 minutes
Other work
- Monocular sailing broadcast to 3D boat tracking: a computer vision pipeline (team of three) that turns a YouTube race broadcast into per-frame camera pose and each boat's metric position and heading, 172 of 172 held-out frames solved at 3.88 px median reprojection error.
- Sailing Program Director, Scituate Recreation Department (2025 to present); Head Sailing Instructor, Satuit Boat Club (2022 to 2024).
Contact
Corrections, questions and data requests are welcome: quinnbrighton2005@gmail.com. If you coach a program and want something looked at, say which regatta and what question.