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Michael Lopez @statsbylopez.bsky.social · 3h

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

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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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Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 13d

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...

NFL Big Data Bowl 2026 - Prediction

Predict player movement while the ball is in the air

www.kaggle.com

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Michael Lopez @statsbylopez.bsky.social · May 28

"May be required to lift heavy objects"!!!

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Danny Page @danny.page · May 28

Need to get @statsbylopez.bsky.social to restart the “nerds with trophies” thread

Pawel Kapuscinski @alienpawi.bsky.social · May 28

It's heavy

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Michael Lopez @statsbylopez.bsky.social · Feb 26

I have a jar with 2700 pennies waiting in Indy

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Michael Lopez @statsbylopez.bsky.social · Feb 26

You seem crestfallen

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Michael Lopez @statsbylopez.bsky.social · Feb 26

Pls re run

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Michael Lopez @statsbylopez.bsky.social · Feb 26

Today #BigDataBowl

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Michael Lopez @statsbylopez.bsky.social · Feb 19

Details on the 2025 Big Data Bowl #BigDataBowl

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Nate Tice @natetice.bsky.social · Feb 10

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.

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Michael Lopez @statsbylopez.bsky.social · Jan 30

👋

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Michael Lopez @statsbylopez.bsky.social · Jan 29

Additionally, we are excited to announce that our 2025 Big Data Bowl keynote speaker is Dr. Eric Tulsky, General Manager of the Carolina Hurricanes

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Ron Yurko @stat-ron.bsky.social · Jan 29

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

Michael Lopez @statsbylopez.bsky.social · Jan 29

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

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Michael Lopez @statsbylopez.bsky.social · Jan 29

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

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Michael Lopez @statsbylopez.bsky.social · Jan 29

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

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Michael Lopez @statsbylopez.bsky.social · Jan 24

Middle of next week!

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Michael Lopez @statsbylopez.bsky.social · Jan 9

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

https://operations.nfl.com/gameday/analytics/stats-articles/how-did-nfl-kickoff-units-approach-the-2024-dynamic-kickoff/

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Jacob Miller @chocotrail.bsky.social · Jan 7

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

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Conor Malone @conorbmalone.bsky.social · Jan 4

Ah, messed up the hashtag #bigdatabowl

Conor Malone @conorbmalone.bsky.social · Jan 3

my 2025 NFL Big Data Bowl entry is now live, this year it's pre-snap data so I modelled a QB's intended pass target as a Hidden Markov model to try to understand what's going on in their head. #nflbigdatabowl

an MS paint illustration of a Hidden Markov Model showing WR 1 - WR5 as hidden states and Down/Yards to Go/ Personnel Defence and Defenders in Box as emissions

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Michael Lopez @statsbylopez.bsky.social · Jan 7

We are likewise hard at work on your parking reimbursement

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Michael Lopez @statsbylopez.bsky.social · Jan 6

Big Data Bowl submissions are due tomorrow

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The deadline is 11:59 PM UTC, which is 6:59 PM EST

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#BigDataBowl

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Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · Dec 27

A list of literally any other conf or community that would be a better use of your time than ssac:

Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · Dec 27

Much sports. Very analytics.

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Benjamin Solak @benjaminsolak.bsky.social · Dec 15

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.

Nate Tice @natetice.bsky.social · Dec 15

good lord Josh Allen

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qntkhvn @qntkhvn.bsky.social · Dec 13

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...

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