In my favorite panel at the Women in Sports Data symposium, each of the panelists described how she took an unusual path to sports. But after surveying the resumes of 200 current or former (W)NBA analytics staffers, I'm convinced there is really no such thing as the ~usual~ path.

I get asked *all the time* how to break into sports analytics. This is how. Big Data Bowl mentorship program and the BDB itself. Hit the link to apply for the mentorship program -> nfl.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6J…

The NFL's Big Data Bowl Mentorship program applications are now open! Experience 1:1 mentoring with a football analytics expert to guide you through a BDB submission. Please fill out the application at the link below:
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Alums have gone onto great stuff -- put in an application if interested!

NFL will be on site - if you want to chat in person, shoot me a DM!

Register now for #CMSAC ! stat.cmu.edu/cmsac/conferen… Join us Nov 10-11 featuring Keynote Address by Sarah Rudd (Sarah Rudd), Closing Keynote by Andrew Patton (@anpatt7), invited talk by Albert Cohen (MSU) with more speaker announcements coming soon! #sportsanalytics #datascience

Pro tip - plasma everything to ensure victory

We offer tickets on an honor system scale because we don't want cost to keep anyone from attending:

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Our scale directly subsidizes students and early career tickets to make this event more accessible.

The #Rays way is spreading to the NFL.
Heard that Bryant Davis, a research & development analyst with Rays last 4 years, is headed to the #DallasCowboys as a Strategic Football Analyst.
Joins growing department in Dallas.

Source confirms the Cowboys are hiring William Britt from the Steelers as a Strategic Football Analyst, as Jori Epstein first reported.

DARKO and the NFL are officially at Summer League. It’s ungodly hot.

NFL Engineering (Sr. Manager, Cloud Platform Architect) Job!!

- FTE role in NYC
- Work with critical infrastructure across entire league

Link: hdmm.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Good gang here ->

I cannot emphasize enough, you do not have to win for this to be a life-changing experience.

The Jaguars changed Ryan Paganetti's title from Director of Coaching Analytics to Director of Football Analytics.

The team also recently hired Avery Horvath as a Data Scientist.

Horvath was a 2023 Big Data Bowl honorable mention for this entry: kaggle.com/code/averyehor…

A big win for those interested in WNBA data:

Cheryl Reeve said postgame that the league is hoping to have functioning Second Spectrum data for teams to access by the end of July.

Would be a major win if WNBA got that matchup data on box scores like they do for NBA.

The Texans are hiring Ishan Mehta as a Football Data Scientist, according to a source.

Mehta previously worked at Zelus Analytics.

Four players of relevance this morning, via the Darko app (ht Kostya Medvedovsky Andrew Patton)

Engineering with the Lions!

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If you're in NYC, come see me speak about NBA statistics and DARKO tomorrow!

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