Justin Wayne Jacobs (born c. 1981) is an American statistician, currently serving as the Senior Basketball Researcher with the Orlando Magic.

Jacobs has also served in an advisory and support role for scientists who have been trying to recover the ill-fated MH370 Malaysian airlines crash in the South Indian Ocean.

[6] Jacobs currently serves as an applied research mathematician in the National Security Agency[citation needed] with a main focus on geolocation and spatio-temporal analysis on the WGS 84 manifold.

In his 2015 recent rankings algorithm, Jacobs' predicted 65 of 68 NCAA Division One Men's Basketball Teams that would make the field of 68 for the annual March Madness National Championship tournament.

Jacobs uses the site to break down basketball analytics and provide insight into advanced modeling techniques for spatial temporal data.