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Seth Walder @sethwalder.bsky.social · 7d

ESPN's receiver scores have been updated through Week 4!

espnanalytics.com/receivers

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Kaggle @kaggle.com · 13d

🏈 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 👇

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Ron Yurko @stat-ron.bsky.social · 13d

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datawithbliss.bsky.social @datawithbliss.bsky.social · 13d

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

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datawithbliss.bsky.social @datawithbliss.bsky.social · 13d

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...

NFL Big Data Bowl 2026 - Analytics

Understand player movement while the ball is in the air

www.kaggle.com

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datawithbliss.bsky.social @datawithbliss.bsky.social · 13d

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...

NFL Big Data Bowl 2026 - Prediction

Predict player movement while the ball is in the air

www.kaggle.com

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datawithbliss.bsky.social @datawithbliss.bsky.social · 13d

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

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Ron Yurko @stat-ron.bsky.social · 16d

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Ron Yurko @stat-ron.bsky.social · 24d

This is the most beautiful time of year here Jonathan...

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qntkhvn @qntkhvn.bsky.social · 26d

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Watt vs. Garrett? Metcalf vs. Pickens? Quang Nguyen Uses Next Gen Stats To Evaluate Player Performance - Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Carnegie Mellon University

Statistics Ph.D. candidate Quang Nguyen uses NFL tracking data to find new and exciting ways to evaluate players.

www.cmu.edu

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Ron Yurko @stat-ron.bsky.social · 26d

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...

Watt vs. Garrett? Metcalf vs. Pickens? Quang Nguyen Uses Next Gen Stats To Evaluate Player Performance - Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Carnegie Mellon University

Statistics Ph.D. candidate Quang Nguyen uses NFL tracking data to find new and exciting ways to evaluate players.

www.cmu.edu

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Ron Yurko @stat-ron.bsky.social · 28d

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

Pierre-Simon Laplace @learnbayesstats.bsky.social · 29d

🏈 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

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Pierre-Simon Laplace @learnbayesstats.bsky.social · 29d

🏈 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

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Christie Aschwanden @cragcrest.bsky.social · Sep 5

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...

SCORES: Idaho Department of Education releases 2025 ISATs

The author was correct to begin the article by stating “overall scores remained mostly stable when compared to last year’s results.” However, I take issue with the author’s subsequent interpretation o...

cdapress.com

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Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · Sep 7

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...

GitHub - nickwan/2025-sabersem-inspo: not exactly replications, but loosely based

not exactly replications, but loosely based. Contribute to nickwan/2025-sabersem-inspo development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Ron Yurko @stat-ron.bsky.social · Sep 4

when are we going to see the Positron data viewer instead Seth??? positron.posit.co

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Dean Oliver @deanolytics.bsky.social · Sep 4

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.

Ron Yurko @stat-ron.bsky.social · Sep 3

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

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Kostas Pelechrinis @kpelechrinis.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

Ron Yurko @stat-ron.bsky.social · Sep 3

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

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Ron Yurko @stat-ron.bsky.social · Sep 3

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

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Ron Yurko @stat-ron.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Tan @tanho.ca · Sep 2

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.

Screenshot of 2024 participation data from FTN

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Ron Yurko @stat-ron.bsky.social · Aug 26

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

The Athletic @theathletic.com · Aug 26

NEWS: The Las Vegas Raiders have traded a 2026 fifth-round pick to the Cleveland Browns in return for QB Kenny Pickett, a source confirmed to The Athletic.

More details: www.nytimes.com/athletic/657...

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Owen Phillips @owenphillips.bsky.social · Aug 21

Personnel News

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

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Ron Yurko @stat-ron.bsky.social · Aug 14

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

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · Aug 13

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

Recommendations for visual predictive checks in Bayesian workflow

teemusailynoja.github.io

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