Resources

Data

  • Kaggle
    • Datasets and competitions
  • RBSDM
    • Football statistics
    • Has many useful datasets as well as beginner nflfastR tutorials
  • Kenpom
    • College Men’s Basketball analytics
    • Most content required a subscription
  • PFF
    • NFL and CFB analytics
    • Most data behind paywall
    • Articles and analysis
  • Sports Reference
    • CFB
    • MBB
    • MLB
    • NBA
    • NFL
    • NHL
    • Soccer
    • Stathead
      • Same data as sports reference but can get data specific for your need, behind a paywall but has a free trial
  • RetroSheet
    • Play-by-play data for all MLB games from 1912-present
  • BaseballCV
    • YOLO computer vision library for baseball

R Packages

  • nflfastR
    • Has many useful functions and datasets for analyzing the NFL
  • cfbscrapR
    • Helps analysis of college football data
  • nbastatR
    • Assists in scraping data and generating analysis for NBA
  • baseballR
    • Assists in analyzing MLB analytics
  • KenpomR
    • R package to scrape Kenpom
  • ncaahoopR
    • Play-by-play for CBB

Learning Resources

Big Data Bowl

Workshops