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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...

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Details on the 2025 Big Data Bowl #BigDataBowl

Cooper DeJean with some outstanding awareness to fall back into the throw and get the interception. DeJean also hit a max speed of 21.31 MPH on this play. The fastest by a defensive player as a ball carrier this season (including playoffs), per NextGenStats.

Regardless of the announcement - congrats to everyone that made a submission! Just getting something out there is an achievement and something to point to in your #sportsanalytics #datascience portfolio #BigDataBowl

Congratulations to the Finalists, Semi-Finalists, and Honorable Mention finishers in the 2025 Big Data Bowl #BigDataBowl

2025 Big Data Bowl finalists will be announced tomorrow, Weds 1/29, at 12 noon EST #BigDataBowl

A look at each NFL team's kickoff style t.co/u2YoauQwfk

Enjoyable time with Connor and Grant working through this #BigDataBowl. We attempted to bite off quite a bit -- is it possible to create an overall metric for predictability of play outcome given pre-snap information? Quick hit: more first downs = more unpredictable

Ah, messed up the hashtag #bigdatabowl

Big Data Bowl submissions are due tomorrow 🚨🚨 The deadline is 11:59 PM UTC, which is 6:59 PM EST 🚨🚨 #BigDataBowl

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There are 70 throws of 50+ air yards in the NGS database. This throw was in the air for 2.47 seconds. That is the fastest 50+ yard throw we've seen.

Excited to share my #BigDataBowl submission this year, joint work with the great Ron Yurko: Down, set, hut! Explaining variability in snap timing on plays with motion www.kaggle.com/code/tindata...

WEEK 12 #NFL Playoff Leverage Here you can see how the playoff probability of each team changes depending on whether they win or lose the next game. Niners and Seahawks better win this week. #rstats | #nflverse