ESPN's receiver scores have been updated through Week 4! espnanalytics.com/receivers

🏈 The 8th annual NFL Big Data Bowl is here! This year, we’re excited to launch two competitions in collaboration with NFL. Participants will use NFL player tracking (Next Gen Stats) to generate insights that enhance the game. Pro tip: you can compete in both 😎 More info 👇

Thanks to NextGenStats and @awscloud.bsky.social for the partnership, @kaggle.com for hosting, and to all of our loyal participants for ensuring that our competition is changing the game #BigDataBowl

The analytics competition will allow folks to creatively identify characteristics or visualizations of player movement, either on the offensive or defensive sides of the ball www.kaggle.com/c/nfl-big-da...

The leaderboard competition will use the last 5 weeks of 2025 to identify who builds the best model/algorithm www.kaggle.com/c/nfl-big-da...

The 2026 Big Data Bowl #BigDataBowl is live! Participants can sign up for two competitions: - leaderboard - traditional analytics competition This year's task: predict/understand player movement when the ball is in the air

Great article on the cutting-edge #NFL #BigDataBowl data research by PhD student Quang Nguyen (@qntkhvn.bsky.social) - #Steelers fans should read this! Watt vs. Garrett? Metcalf vs. Pickens? Quang Nguyen Uses #NextGenStats To Evaluate Player Performance www.cmu.edu/dietrich/new...

Really enjoyed talking to @alex-andorra.bsky.social on @learnbayesstats.bsky.social! I've always enjoyed listening to this podcast and encourage you to check out all of the awesome episodes Alex has recorded: learnbayesstats.com #statistics #Bayesian #datascience #sportsanalytics

🏈 NFL meets Bayesian stats! In this episode @alex-andorra.bsky.social chats with Ron Yurko on 👉 Writing your own models 👉 Building a sports analytics portfolio 👉 Pitfalls of modelling expectations 👉 Using tracking data for player insights 👉 Causal thinking in football data 🎧 lnkd.in/gWz4v2JG

I've seen a lot of incorrect uses and understandings of p-values, but this one made me do a literal LOL. It's a hilarious example of how a certain type of smug person who writes letters to the editor to take issue with news stories can get things so, so wrong. cdapress.com/news/2025/se...

Spent the last week "replicating" several sabersem presentations from the last sabersem. Was pretty fun! Going to highlight each one I did here. Shoutout to @srbrown70.bsky.social for the list of slides, very helpful. if you want the repo, it's here github.com/nickwan/2025...

October in Pittsburgh for some sports analytics. I'm speaking, as is Alok Pattani, my former right hand at ESPN. We'll have stories to tell, for sure.

Don’t miss out the best #sportsanalytics conference out there!

Excited to host the godfather of #basketballanalytics @deanolytics.bsky.social as the Keynote Address at this year's Carnegie Mellon #SportsAnalytics Conference on Oct 24-25! You can REGISTER NOW to see talks by Dean and other leaders/experts in the field: www.cmsaconference.com #NBA

load_participation(): thanks to @realfrankbrank.bsky.social and @ftnfantasy.com, we're now able to have **historical** participation data similar to what we were previously pulling from NGS! This data is graciously provided to us after every season, and we now have complete 2023 and 2024 data avail.

Kenny Pickett has 1 game with more than 1 passing TD... and has now been traded 3 times @dannyheifetz.bsky.social

Personnel News thef5.substack.com/p/personnel-...

Reminder that TOMORROW is the deadline to submit an abstract for the Carnegie Mellon #SportsAnalytics Conference (www.stat.cmu.edu/cmsac/confer...) #ReproducibleResearch competition! #statistics #datascience #AI

We talk more about visual posterior predictive checking and above plots in teemusailynoja.github.io/visual-predi.... The next bayesplot release will give a warning if PPC bar graphs are used with less than 6 unique outcome values, with a link to a page containing suggestions for better plots. 4/4

Curious about random forest prediction error estimation? Here's an accessible high level overview of this machine learning method from my Pomona College colleague Jo Hardin @hardin47.bsky.social academicminute.org/jo-hardin-po...

Submit your #sportsanalytics research abstracts by FRIDAY AUG 15TH for our annual #ReproducibleResearch Competition! www.cmsaconference.com/research-com... Submit your work & please share with others (especially students) in your network! #CMSAC #statistics #datascience #sports #machinelearning

#rstats So chuffed! I printed the first PDF copy of my book to see what it might look like in print! It will be printed in full color! Visualizing Multivariate Data and Models in R On the whole, looks good, but lots of tweaking to do. It weighs in at ~440 pgs., so perhaps some cutting needed.

Looking for a product scientist to join us on the teamworks soccer group (my team)! Happy to answer any questions 😁 ats.rippling.com/en-CA/teamwo...

The NEW website for the annual Carnegie Mellon #SportsAnalytics Conference is live! www.stat.cmu.edu/cmsac/confer... Register to attend on Oct 24-25, submit abstracts to enter #ReproducibleResearch competition (by Aug 15th), present posters (by Oct 3rd), check out speaker info, w/ more coming soon!

Congratulations to the one and only @statsinthewild.bsky.social for winning the 2025 ASA Section on Statistics in Sports Significant Contributor Award. #truehero #jsm2025

I cannot emphasize enough how incredible #positron is for instructors that teach courses/programs spanning multiple programming languages - thank you @posit.co for making my life easier

Interested in presenting? There are two ways to showcase your work at the 2026 ASI Summit. For more information on submitting proposals and abstracts, visit: americansoccerinsights.com

Started using #positron for writing #python class material... next thing I know I'm writing #Rstats scripts in it and I keep looking at RStudio in my dock

Save the date (June 15-18, 2026) for the Electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics, call for proposals to follow this fall www.causeweb.org/cause/ecots/...

Read more about the course:

A new course offered at Carnegie Mellon will analyze one of the nation's hottest hobbies: sports betting. Statistician Ron Yurko and neuroscience professor Linda Moya will co-teach the seminar, examining the science behind the odds and addictive decision-making. #SportsBetting | #stats

#CMSAC will in be full force at #NESSIS this September at Harvard!

Excited for #CMSAC at #NESSIS! www.nessis.org + PhD student Michele Sezgin's poster: Does furosemide make horses run faster? + @qntkhvn.bsky.social talk: #NFL change of direction arxiv.org/abs/2507.06122 + Myself (w/ @recspecs730.bsky.social) talk: College Football Volatility #sportsanalytics

Excited to share that our recent work on modeling change of direction in the NFL (arxiv.org/abs/2507.06122) has been selected for an invited talk at 2025 #NESSIS (nessis.org). Harvard bound again!

Many thanks to Bethany Rodgers @usatoday.com for the write-up about the new #sportsbetting course I'll be co-teaching w/ Dr Linda Moya this upcoming spring 2026 semester as part of CMU Dietrich College's Grand Challenge seminar program www.goerie.com/story/news/2...

Only Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player have won the Open, Masters and PGA Championship before age 30. On Sunday, Scottie Scheffler joined them. @gabbyherzig.bsky.social has more on his dominant Open performance ⤵️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/650...

BREAKING: Public Launch of Satchel Paige Project marklaurencearmour.wordpress.com/2084-2/ There is a short explainer on my website, then you click on the map and see where it takes you. Please pass this around to anyone you think might be interested

With the MLB All-Star game tonight, here is how MLB divisions would look if they were created purely to minimize the average distance between teams. Avg distance between teams in same division: - Current: 606 miles - Optimal: 421 miles

Super cool work by @qntkhvn.bsky.social & @stat-ron.bsky.social

Check out the latest #CMSAC #sportsanalytics research w/ #BigDataBowl data by @qntkhvn.bsky.social on modeling #NFL player change of direction: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06122 this is a component of Quang's recent thesis proposal and I'm excited for more to come (he does all the work, I just opine)

Or perhaps a better title would be “Curious, George” (since Kittle and Pickens are the shiftiest among TEs and WRs)