Resources
Sports analytics is a community sport. These are the ecosystems we build on, the friends we build alongside, and the conferences and competitions where the work gets shared.
Friends of the ecosystem
05NVnflversenflverse.nflverse.comThe open-source home of NFL analytics — nflfastR, nflreadr, and the nightly data releases our NFL loaders build on.CFBDCollegeFootballDatacollegefootballdata.comThe community API for college football. cfbfastR's cfbd_* function family is a direct client of it.CBDCollegeBasketballDatacollegebasketballdata.comCFBD's college basketball sibling — hoops schedules, box scores, and betting data behind a free key.PSPySportpysport.orgThe open-source sports analytics community and package index — kloppy and the wider Python sports stack.AZAthlyticZathlyticz.comPractitioner-taught sports analytics courses — R, Python, and Stan — including courses built with the packages you'll find here.
Conferences & symposia
10CMUCMSACcmsaconference.comCarnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Conference — where the SportsDataverse Initiative paper won the 2021 open-track reproducible research competition.NENESSISnessis.orgNew England Symposium on Statistics in Sports — the biennial Harvard gathering of sports statisticians.CASCASSIScascadiasports.comCascadia Symposium on Statistics in Sports — the Pacific Northwest's sports stats meeting in Vancouver.CTCSASstatds.orgConnecticut Sports Analytics Symposium — UConn-hosted, with a student data challenge alongside the talks.MLMLSAdtai.cs.kuleuven.beMachine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics — the ECML/PKDD workshop for ML-first sports research.MSMathSport Internationalmathsportinternational.comThe long-running European conference on mathematics in sport.MSAMathSport Asiaiimk.ac.inMathSport's Asian edition — quantitative sports research across the region.CSIACSSiacss.orgInternational Association of Computer Science in Sport — home of the ISCSS symposium and the IJCSS journal.ICicSPORTSicsports.scitevents.orgInternational Conference on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support.ISAISACEformal-analysis.comInternational Sports Analytics Conference and Exhibition.
Competitions
03BDBNFL Big Data Bowloperations.nfl.comThe NFL's annual player-tracking analytics competition — the sport's biggest open data challenge.HPIHudl Performance Insightshudl.comHudl / StatsBomb research competitions on soccer and performance data.KGKaggle sports competitionskaggle.comEvery active sports-tagged prediction competition — March Madness brackets and beyond.
Keep the data free
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