Akshay Easwaran

We’re looking for talks that show how data—especially statistics and machine learning—can unlock insights to help players and teams perform their best on the field. For more info on what we're looking for and how to submit, visit: americansoccerinsights.com/call-for-abs...

Been a lot of chatter about how the upcoming MLS schedule change is going to affect play on the field. @kierdoyle.bsky.social decided to look exactly how. www.americansocceranalysis.com/home/2026/10...

The 2027 Big Data Bowl hackathon is live! It's a big entrypoint for people looking to get into sports analytics and tracking data.

there are a few subtle hints that the college football advanced stats website that a lot of us use was put together by Georgia Tech grads

More info on two research opportunities that recently opened up, with first-hand accounts courtesy of some friends. Plus, required reading, a new job posting, stat updates, and more. This week's PMR:

The best way to get your work in front of industry professionals in soccer analytics? Submit a research proposal to the American Soccer Insights Summit!

The Game on Paper Top 12 (aka 1st-12th in adjusted net EPA/play) gameonpaper.com/year/2026/te...

We’re so ATL 🫰 Today, the NWSL’s 17th club unveiled it’s name and crest: Atlanta City FC. Sound off for ATL, coming in 2028!

Interested in presenting research at the ASI Summit? We are opening a call for proposals, with data provided by SkillCorner. For more details, visit: americansoccerinsights.com/call-for-pro...

We've posted our primary charts for the day, but we have close to 200 variables you can build your own chart with thousands of combinations available on our chart builder for everything from pure chaos to new insights. gameonpaper.com/charts/build... Tag us if you make one!

Genuinely believe @futi.live's new advanced stats with tactical context are the deepest that fans have ever had access to Non-shot dangerous attacks, xG in set piece second phases, fast break dribbles, tactical fouls in transition — there's so much stuff here that we can measure for the first time

Tonight (and tomorrow’s) games gameonpaper.com

MLS has released another update of its GAM figures. We look into who’s doing great going in 2027 and who isn’t, as the league enters a period of uncertainty with a looming CBA expiration in January ‘28. Who do you think is looking healthy going into the 2027 season?

Today’s games gameonpaper.com

Tonight and tomorrow's games gameonpaper.com

𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐂𝐮𝐩 𝟐.𝟎 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞. 🇪🇺🇺🇸 Following the success of the first edition, PySport and @skillcorner.bsky.social are inviting the analytics community to work with open-source 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 (including body pose data) and 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 to turn new ideas into open-source projects with real value.

Big thank you to everyone who came and visited the site yesterday. We saw a 28% increase in visitors compared to Week 1 Saturday last year.

Today’s (and tomorrow’s) games gameonpaper.com

Today’s games gameonpaper.com

I wrote a little bit about how I compile data in my possession efficiency ratings work, and how I rely on a variety of sources and friends (from @collegefootballdata.com to @sickoscommittee.org, if necessary) to build a data set and clean it up: bcftoys.com/whiteboard/s...

🏀 wehoop 3.0.0 is on CRAN. Women's basketball data in R levels up. install.packages("wehoop") 📖 https://wehoop.sportsdataverse.org @saiemgilani.bsky.social #rstats

hi folks--i am hiring data science interns for my team for the 2027 season! do you like using data to solve challenging problems in sports and learning/growing in a collaborative environment? if so, i'd like to encourage you to apply! tinyurl.com/mariners-ds-...

I can't overstate my appreciation for folks like Bill Radjewski @collegefootballdata.com making a wealth of data available and accessible for people to make cool things and uncover analytics insights: collegefootballdata.com

Air yards, average depth of target, pass locations, and YAC are now on CFBD. Five new /passing endpoints cover plays and player/team stats. Partial 2025 data; mostly full coverage from 2026 onward. Explore: api.collegefootballdata.com

🏈 cfbfastR 3.0.0 is on CRAN — the biggest release in the package's history, and it lands for Week 1. install.packages("cfbfastR")

Live stats are up for tonight's 6pm FCS games TOW/ME: gameonpaper.com/game/401866532 DWST/SB: gameonpaper.com/game/401866615 YSU/MH: gameonpaper.com/game/401867894 MHST/OD: gameonpaper.com/game/401896383

New substack post is live! Breaking down all the new features we've rolled out for 2026, including: 🏐Player leaderboards 🏐Player similarity tool 🏐and more! evollve.substack.com/p/new-season...

Did you watch the Sounders last night and are wondering about all the Tacoma kids who played? Excited about Cavan Sullivan? Do we have the article for you. @kierdoyle.bsky.social tried to figure out how good MLSNP kids actually are. www.americansocceranalysis.com/home/2026/8/...

🚨2026 site is live 🚨 Just in time for the start of the season tonight, we've launched the updated Evollve.net including 🏐new features such as player impact metrics like RAPM 🏐game projections including for both games tonight 🏐much more! Our preseason top 10:

Research from the Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Center is powering "Heisman Hopefuls," a first-of-its-kind data, storytelling and fan voting platform. 🏈📈 CMU data scientists are providing fans with deeper insight into the race for the @heismantrophy.bsky.social. 🏆 #DataScience #SportsAnalytics

While Kieran works on some general Claudery, the request line for MLSNP projection wheels is open #PlayYourKids Gotta be 450 MLSNP mins in 2026

To go with the launch of 2.0, Jack and Akshay recorded a companion podcast episode on their GT podcast feed to go through the history of the site and walk through how to use the updates. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Have any burning questions about the site? Tonight we are recording a podcast episode to go through the relauched site and would love to hear from y'all. Hit us in the replies or dm's. The episode will be available on the Scions of the Southland podcast feed.

The American Soccer Insights Summit is back for 2027. The Summit will be held at Rice University on March 26th and 27th, during a FIFA men's international break window. Registration is now open: americansoccerinsights.com/registration/

Introducing CORE Ratings from CFBD. CORE adjusts play-level PPA for game context and opponent strength, with offense, defense, and overall values. Learn how to read CORE, where it helps, and how to use the API: radsportsanalytics.com/blog/introdu...

gameonpaper.com will be down for maintenance as we add a bunch of new updates to the site. We’ll let yall know when it’s back up and running!

HAYNES KING!

The 2026 CFB Model Training Pack is live. It gives intermediate Python users nine guided notebooks for building, evaluating, interpreting, and comparing college football models. $69: collegefootballdata.gumroad.com/l/model-trai...

I first started collecting referee data way back in 2009. I needed something to focus my energy on in what was a time of terrible grief. Now, for the first time, we've finally got a website going where all this work I've done can be seen by all. Introducting mlsrefstats.org

We made so many new things for 2026. Game On Paper 2.0 is gonna blow y'all's minds when it's finished. This is only a third of what's gonna be on a page like this

75points.americansocceranalysis.com We’ve got an NWSL and MLS spin roster building game to ruin your work productivity

Spin a wheel and pick one player per club and season for your lineup, then simulate your team against the Premier League or MLS. The game uses a decade of real player data from futi's models, including player ratings, skills and styles that affect team fit. Build a balanced team to be Centurions!

We've not done a good job of looking at goalkeepers, @kierdoyle.bsky.social tried to change that. Here's his xClaim model for goalkeeper cross collection. www.americansocceranalysis.com/home/2026/7/...

Week 0 & Week 1 matchups out of context. Wes Kenn, possibly a real human

Enter this year's Carnegie Mellon #SportsAnalytics Conference (Oct 23-24) #ReproducibleResearch Competition! forms.gle/GUXbxGbkkoiq... NEW: Winning authors receive an exclusive invitation to submit to the Journal of Statistics and Data Science in Sports jsds-sports.github.io

The CFBD Blog is becoming Rad Sports Analytics, a broader home for college football and basketball analysis, tutorials, models, visualizations, and engineering. What’s changing, what isn’t, and what comes next: radsportsanalytics.com/blog/why-the...