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Hack the Pats with open NFL Data Set

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  • January 19 · 10:00 AM

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FOOTBALL HACKATHON

Any type of hack is welcome. Here are some sources, but feel free to do what you want.

AdvancedNLFStats has released every play in the NFL since 2002. What can that tell us about Belichick's 3rd down mentality? Help find out at a hackathon focused on NFL data: We'll work on visualizations, interactives, and any other creative ideas you come up with.

And:

http://www.nflgsis.com/gsis/documentation/stadiumguides/guide_for_statisticians.pdf

and (posted 8:47 Saturdat):

https://github.com/10flow/playbyplay

and (9:10)

https://github.com/veltman/nflplays

 

 



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  • Matt Carroll
    Matt Carroll

    Great crowd, great presentations (9 of them!). A lot of fun.

    1 · January 21

    • Justin Carroll
      Justin Carroll

      Thanks for organizing it! I was really impressed with the meetup; I wasn't sure what to expect and who'd be there (in terms of ability) but I had a lot of fun, learned a lot about NFL, and enjoyed meeting everyone.

      January 21

  • Christopher Vance
    Christopher Vance

    Interesting data set, great set of people with a variety of engineering and stats backgrounds, good discussion and ideas.

    January 19

  • Joseph Young
    Joseph Young

    Hey everyone I just joined but ill be coming in late. Would it be possible to join a group around 11 or so? I'm more of a hack than hacker but have some coding skill.

    January 19

  • Michael Morisy
    Michael Morisy

    Put up a wiki here, feel free to add and edit:
    http://nfl-hackathon.wikia.com/...

    January 19

  • Justin Carroll
    Justin Carroll

    Hey everyone I'm runnin late. Sorry! It's me +1, so if anyone breaks into groups before we get there, can you add us?

    1 · January 19

  • Tanya Cashorali
    Tanya Cashorali

    I started analyzing this data the day it came out!
    http://sportsdataviz.com/percen...

    I just found out about this event though and won't be able to make it. Any chance you'll post updates here?

    January 18

    • Matt Carroll
      Matt Carroll

      Yes, we will post updates, list of winners, links to links, pictures. Sorry you couldn't make it. So maybe next time. we are doing a baseball hack, sometime in mid-March.

      January 18

  • Christopher Vance
    Christopher Vance

    For those of us hackers new to big data, any applications we should install/services we should sign up for prior to tomorrow's meeting?

    January 18

  • Merlin Calo
    Merlin Calo

    This sounds pretty cool.

    January 16

  • Michael Morisy
    Michael Morisy

    Here's the data we're looking at:

    http://www.advancednflstats.com...

    Examples for inspiration might be the Pat's play predictor:

    http://www.boston.com/sports/fo...

    Or the Bill Belichick Press Conference Simulator:
    http://www.boston.com/sports/fo...

    January 7

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