We are thrilled to announce that the American Soccer Insights Summit will return in 2026. The summit will be held at Rice University on January 30-31. Register today at: www.ticketleap.events/tickets/amer...

New York Friends: I'll be on a panel at the first annual Symposium on AI & Sports hosted by the Columbia-Dream Sports AI Innovation Center on Thursday, September 12. Registration is free! (and there is a remote option) lnkd.in/g2deuMMS

I'll be at Saberseminar this weekend! If you'd like to meet, book some time with me using my Calendly. calendly.com/saberpowers/saberseminar

From novice to expert—STaRT@Rice has the workshops to match your research journey. Grow your skills and network with us! I’m excited to lead a session on ridge regression and the lasso in R. Register here: start.rice.edu #STaRTatRice2024 #Shapingthefuture

The American Soccer Insights Summit is seeking sponsors to keep registration costs accessible and to fund travel for deserving students. If you are interested in being a sponsor, please reach out: [email protected]. Re-posts are appreciated! americansoccerinsights.com/sponsors

Adi Wyner asked a good question on the Wharton Moneyball show last week: We observe that bat speed correlates negatively with squared up rate ACROSS batters. But what about WITHIN batter? For a given batter, when they swing harder, are they less likely to square the ball up?

I'll be there!

HUGE thanks to all the folks at MLB who put in the work necessary to bring us pitch-by-pitch bat-tracking metrics publicly available on Baseball Savant. This is an awesome dataset, and I appreciate the opportunity to play around with it.

Better late than never, mRchmadness (w/ Eli Shayer) is up for 2024! We're NOT in the business of predicting outcomes. But if you have those predictions from another source, our tool maximizes your chances of winning your pool (using pick data from ESPN). saberpowers.shinyapps.io/mRchmadness/

Just got my ticket!

⚾ Save the date - April 13! Join me at the UConn Sports Analytics Symposium for a historical journey through Baseball Analytics. We will discuss its present state and open problems, how we got here, and envision the future. Don't miss out! statds.org/events/ucsas... #UCSAS2024

Luke Stancil, Naomi Consiglio and I estimated a touch-by-touch point win probability model for women's college volleyball. We measured core skills (serve, receive, set, attack, block, dig) all on the scale of Points Gained. The preprint is now on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2402.01083

Having worked in MLB front offices as a data scientist for several years, sometimes it *is* hard to be romantic about baseball. Thank you @sammillerbb.bsky.social for rehabilitating that feeling within me over the past 11 months. I loved this piece. pebblehunting.substack.com/p/mike-trout...

Today I debuted my personal academic website! saberpowers.github.io For fun, I included a page on which I am collecting R&D jobs in sports that come across my radar.

I want to highlight three Big Data Bowl submissions made by Rice University students...