The Connecticut Sports Analytics Symposium is inviting student teams to participate in the 2026 CSAS Data Challenge. Registration is due by December 1 with submissions accepted until January 15. Finalists will be notified in February and invited to present at CSAS. stattrak.amstat.org/...

To be effective, data science agents need to be able to read plots reliably. @sara-altman.bsky.social and I wrote about some concerning findings on LLMs' ability to interpret plots when the content contradicts their expectations on the @posit.co blog. posit.co/blog/introdu...

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

My paper (coauthored w/ @stat-ron.bsky.social) on modeling variability in QB snap timing using #BigDataBowl data is published in JRSSA. academic.oup.com/jrsssa/advan...

I have 3 streams left and that’s insane. I’ve streamed longer than I’ve been in baseball and longer than I’ve been a neuroscientist. Playing guitar may be the only thing I’ve done longer than stream, to far less success. See y’all over the next 3 days!

That's right folks, the in-person registration deadline for #CMSAC is this FRIDAY OCT 17TH!!! REGISTER NOW and reserve your spot for what should be a fantastic event www.cmsaconference.com We'll be announcing the research competition finalists soon... #sportsanalytics #datascience #AI

NFL Big Data Bowl dropped this past week and while I'm not entering this year, I did want to have some fun with tracking data and other football side projects so I'm launching a Substack as a public forum to do so. Plan to do some BDB tutorials. Check it out! cincysam6.substack.com/p/welcome-fr...

My recent #NESSIS talk at Harvard on evaluating change of direction of NFL players #NFLCoD is available online: youtu.be/mIn-d7iBt1g

Open role with our Football/Media Data & Analytics teams at the NFL - please reach out if this seems like a good fit

The Cincinnati Reds are hiring for our Baseball Ops and Analytics trainee roles! Based in Cincy $20/hr (+ COL stipend for trainees in Cincy) www.teamworkonline.com/baseball-job...

The new ggplot2 4.0.0 is here! 🎉 This major update includes a foundational rewrite of S7 and user benefits such as smarter labeling and a revamped theming system. Check the details: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09... BONUS: Join the release party on Oct 3, 3pm ET. bit.ly/join-gg-extenders #RStats

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

Big data bowl is up!! Two types of competitions this year: The prediction track is more of your classic Kaggle prediction competition. Similar to the March madness Kaggle comp, NFL will use the actual game data from this season and the best prediction wins www.kaggle.com/c/nfl-big-da...

🏈 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 👇

I'm exited to announce a new resource about making slides with quarto and revealjs. This book is the combination of all the work I have done in this area, reordered and polished up There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily slidecrafting-book.com #quarto

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...

Hi folks, Mariners Baseball Operations is hiring interns for the 2026 season! We're looking for Data Science, Baseball Projects, and general Baseball Ops interns for the upcoming year. More details below:

#nflverse news: we've just published nflreadr v1.5.0 to CRAN in time for the new season 🎉 It comes with a few 🚨breaking changes🚨 to core functions, of note: - load_players() - load_player/team_stats() - load_depth_charts() - load_participation() Full changelog here, details in thread 🧵

At Chicago’s Lincoln Lodge, scientists and comedians mix research and humor on stage. In this “Stats + Stories” episode, @johnbailer.bsky.social and @rompenni.bsky.social talk with Greg Matthews—professor, data artist, and comedian—about this unique blend of science and art. tinyurl.com/76cs44k7

Announcing new Quarto resources for Positron users! The Quarto website now has extensive resources for those interested in using Positron to create beautiful reports, dashboards, presentations, and more. Check out the updated documentation here: quarto.org/docs/get-sta...

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

if you're in Chicago (or close by), come to this show this coming Thursday (Aug 14) more show info + tickets: eventbrite.com/e/uncontrolled-variables-tickets-167491434389

if you're in Chicago (or close by), come to this show this coming Thursday (Aug 14) more show info + tickets: eventbrite.com/e/uncontrolled-variables-tickets-167491434389

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...

It's been at least half a dozen years, perhaps more than @aaronschatz.com @sean-forman.com @frantic.org and I have been talking about partnering around this. So freaking excited to announce it to the public. That's right, @pro-football-reference.com now has PxP and all sorts of new stats back to '78

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

Check out the "Insider Guide to Nashville" and get to know the exciting host city of #JSM2025! Learn about cool spots to visit and take in a meal. tinyurl.com/2wp3dfbr#JSM2025!#statssky

#JSM2025 kicks off tomorrow in Nashville, Tennessee. It's not too late to register for the largest statistical event in North America! tinyurl.com/mtjk7f53 #statssky

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

Hudl Statsbomb Release Free Data For Euro 2025 #WEURO2025 www.hudl.com/blog/hudl-st...

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

Take a quick tour of Positron, Posit's next-generation data science IDE, built by the creators of RStudio. Read the blog to learn more: posit.co/blog/a-quick...

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!

NEWS: We are now accepting proposals for the #HudlPerformanceInsights 2025 Research Paper Competition A unique opportunity to work with Hudl Statsbomb Data and present your findings to an audience of industry experts and professionals More details: www.hudl.com/blog/hudl-pe...

Excited to be speaking at the US Olympic & Paralympic Performance Innovation Summit (Aug 27–28, Colorado Springs), where I'll present recent work in football analytics using player tracking data. Register for the event here: teamusaevents.teamusa.org/trncl/PI_Sum...

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

If you couldn’t catch viz buzz live with me and @libbyheeren.bsky.social, you can watch all the drama here on YouTube! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

ICYMI—check out our new paper (w/ very fun results!)

#tidyverse purrr 1.1.0 is out - now with parallel processing! Scale your #rstats map operations reliably and efficiently across multiple cores and even distributed systems. Powered by the mirai framework, this unlocks new levels of performance. Read more at: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07...

New #CMSAC #SportsAnalytics paper on evaluating change of direction in the #NFL by myself and @stat-ron.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06122 Spoiler alert: DK Metcalf displays straight-line, less agile movement, while George Pickens exhibits erratic, more variable directional movement.

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)

New #CMSAC #SportsAnalytics paper on evaluating change of direction in the #NFL by myself and @stat-ron.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06122 Spoiler alert: DK Metcalf displays straight-line, less agile movement, while George Pickens exhibits erratic, more variable directional movement.

🏈 Introducing BLUE (Bayesian Learned Unit Efficiency) - a new way to rank college football teams that goes beyond counting stats and even raw EPA/Play. Here's how it works:🧵

Excited to share that 'Swinging, Fast and Slow' is now available on arXiv! arxiv.org/abs/2507.01238 I had a blast collaborating with @saberpowers.bsky.social on this and learned a lot from him in the process (plus I finally wrote a baseball paper!) #MLB #Statcast #sabermetrics

That's it, folks, #VizBuzz has come to an end and we've crowned @tonyelhabr.bsky.social champion 👑👑👑 The finals was FILLED with ties, which give me life, including a tie for second between @johnbedwards.io and the mighty @qntkhvn.bsky.social It's the end of VizBuzz, but it lives in our ❤️ #databs

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