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by Michael J. Lopez

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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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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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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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by Michael J. Lopez

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"May be required to lift heavy objects"!!!
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It's heavy
Spurs are Europa League Winners fam 🏆
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by Michael J. Lopez

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I have a jar with 2700 pennies waiting in Indy
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by Michael J. Lopez

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You seem crestfallen
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by Michael J. Lopez

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Pls re run
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by Michael J. Lopez

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Today #BigDataBowl
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by Michael J. Lopez

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Details on the 2025 Big Data Bowl #BigDataBowl
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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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by Michael J. Lopez

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by Michael J. Lopez

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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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by Michael J. Lopez

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Congratulations to the Finalists, Semi-Finalists, and Honorable Mention finishers in the 2025 Big Data Bowl #BigDataBowl
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by Michael J. Lopez — Reposted by Michael J. Lopez

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

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Middle of next week!
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by Michael J. Lopez

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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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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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by Michael J. Lopez

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We are likewise hard at work on your parking reimbursement
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by Michael J. Lopez

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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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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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Much sports. Very analytics.
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good lord Josh Allen
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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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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
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