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

• How to Use R for Sports

• Resources for Learning Sports Analytics Coding

  • Medium article, subscription required

• R and Python NFL Data Tutorials

Big Data Bowl

Help Links

• Big Data Bowl Kaggle
• Tips from the NFL (Kaggle discussion)
• Advice from Andrew Patton at the NFL
• Pre-snap motion overview (The 33rd Team)
• Player tracking: wrangling, Voronoi & sonars (Michael Lopez)
• Modeling with Transformers (Sumersports)
• Using Data to Determine Blitz Strategy
• Advice from Professor Sameer Deshpande
• Sameer Deshpande’s 2019 submission (EHCP model)

Workshops

• NFL Data Visualization Workshop
• Football Machine Learning Workshop