Brendan Kent (@brendankent), who served as Soccer Data Analyst for the Portland Timbers from 2015-2018, Co- President of the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective from 2016-2017, and is currently a member of the Analytics team at DraftKings. But more importantly he hosts a fantastic podcast called Measureables. Podcasts cost money to make, equipment, software and the like. Thankfully Betfair has sponsored this podcast which means I can just concentrate on getting fantastic guests ..read more

Jocelyn Mara is an Assistant Professor in Sports Analytics at the University of Canberra, she's here to talk about what its like learning sports analytics and some of the cool things she's working on with her PhD students. Check out the course here https://www.canberra.edu.au/coursesandunits/course?course_cd=363JA&version_number=1 Hear about how you can gain practical work experience on your journey to working in sports. Podcasts cost money to make, equipment, software and the like. Thankfully Betfair has sponsored this podcast which means I can just concentrate on getting fantastic guest ..read more

Rebecca Beeson hails from the UNSW-ES Bulldogs in Sydney and was selected with pick 32 in the 2016 NAB AFLW Draft. A great football brain, Beeson has good skills and can take a strong overhead mark. Beeson hasn’t missed a game across four AFLW seasons and received a Rising Star nomination in 2018. Beeson took her game to a new level in 2019, winning the Gabrielle Trainor Medal as club champion. Hear about her journey to AFLW and how she thinks the 2021 season will go ..read more

Check out this Data Bowl Winning entry from the team behind the fantastic website Model284 https://model284.com/about-us/ In this episode we talk about their big data bowl entry on defensive player coverage which you can see all the code here. https://github.com/mrichards284/BigDataBowl Of course check out their profiles and reach out. https://twitter.com/MarcRichards284 https://twitter.com/SamWalczak284 https://twitter.com/jackwerner94 ..read more

Rebecca Beeson hails from the UNSW-ES Bulldogs in Sydney and was selected with pick 32 in the 2016 NAB AFLW Draft. A great football brain, Beeson has good skills and can take a strong overhead mark. Beeson hasn’t missed a game across four AFLW seasons and received a Rising Star nomination in 2018. Beeson took her game to a new level in 2019, winning the Gabrielle Trainor Medal as club champion. Hear about her journey to AFLW and how she thinks the 2021 season will go ..read more

In our final episode of our Big Data Bowl College series we have Jill Reiner https://twitter.com/jillhreiner We discuss her interest in sports her time at the CMU sports analytics camp, analytics her big data bowl entry and her next plans Check out her big data bowl entry here https://www.kaggle.com/reinerj1/evaluating-and-clustering-coverage-skill ..read more

Check out this Data Bowl Winning entry from the team behind the fantastic website Model284 https://model284.com/about-us/ In this episode we talk about their big data bowl entry on defensive player coverage which you can see all the code here. https://github.com/mrichards284/BigDataBowl Of course check out their profiles and reach out. https://twitter.com/MarcRichards284 https://twitter.com/SamWalczak284 https://twitter.com/jackwerner94 ..read more

As editor-in-chief of Hockey-Graphs, Asmae manages the day-to-day operations and oversees the editorial and creative process. She’s passionate about bridging data analytics, academia and sports. In her role, she spearheaded a mentorship program pairing NHL data scientists and executives with underrepresented persons. Podcasts cost money to make, equipment, software and the like. Thankfully Betfair has sponsored this podcast which means I can just concentrate on getting fantastic guests ..read more

In this episode we chat to one of this years Big Data Bowl winning team from Wharton. Have you ever wondered if we can evaluate players who get into good positions but don't get thrown the ball? Well wonder no more hear about how their target agnostic evaluation tackles this problem and more! You can look at Zach, Ryan, Zach and Sarah entry below https://www.kaggle.com/zachdrapkin/target-agnostic-evaluation-of-cbs-wrs Their contact details are below it would be silly not to reach out https://www.linkedin.com/in/zach-bradlow/ https://twitter.com/zachdrapkin https://twitter.com/ryanzgross h ..read more

In our final episode of our Big Data Bowl College series we have Jill Reiner https://twitter.com/jillhreiner We discuss her interest in sports her time at the CMU sports analytics camp, analytics her big data bowl entry and her next plans Check out her big data bowl entry here https://www.kaggle.com/reinerj1/evaluating-and-clustering-coverage-skill ..read more