Assistant Teaching Professor, Director of Carnegie Mellon #SportsAnalytics Center https://xitter.twitterapi.xyz/t.co/bH22Ka8HwC @CMU_StatDS
Pittsburgh, PA
Joined March 2013
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It's a privilege and honor to be able to work w/ @HeismanTrophy - I consider it to be the most prestigious award in American sports, and I'm beyond excited for #CMSAC to play a role in its rich history! #Heisman #CollegeFootball #sportsanalytics
CMU x @HeismanTrophy 🏈📊🏆
Heisman has partnered with Carnegie Mellon and the Sports Analytics Center to develop metrics and tools to make it easier for fans to access and evaluate performance data for all positions.
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Find someone who looks at you like a Bayesian looks at his weights as a function of time. ;)
Check out the @HeismanTrophy article on the #CMSAC methodology behind this year's #HeismanFanVote weights! This gives more details behind the approach I talked about on the #HeismanHopefuls podcast and on @WMoneyball! heisman.com/articles/why-you… #sportsanalytics #collegefootball
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Happy Veterans Day to all who served! @TartanFB proudly honors your commitment, contribution, and sacrifices! #TartanProud
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#CODE | #BYB | #RDT
Check out the @HeismanTrophy article on the #CMSAC methodology behind this year's #HeismanFanVote weights! This gives more details behind the approach I talked about on the #HeismanHopefuls podcast and on @WMoneyball! heisman.com/articles/why-you… #sportsanalytics #collegefootball
Your Heisman Hopefuls Fan Vote gets stronger every week. Why? As the season progresses, we gain a more complete picture of player and team performances.
Our dynamic voting system, developed by Carnegie Mellon’s Sports Analytics Center, reflects that growing information by giving later votes more weight. By the final week, your vote carries nearly 18x its Week 1 weight.
Keep voting daily. Your voice matters more with every passing week. 🗳️
Read the full breakdown on the official Heisman website: heisman.com/articles/why-you…
Ron Yurko retweeted
Your Heisman Hopefuls Fan Vote gets stronger every week. Why? As the season progresses, we gain a more complete picture of player and team performances.
Our dynamic voting system, developed by Carnegie Mellon’s Sports Analytics Center, reflects that growing information by giving later votes more weight. By the final week, your vote carries nearly 18x its Week 1 weight.
Keep voting daily. Your voice matters more with every passing week. 🗳️
Read the full breakdown on the official Heisman website: heisman.com/articles/why-you…
The #Steelers were smart in NOT trading draft capital in the final year of the Aaron Rodgers era (we actually have no idea what comes next and adding WR depth probably doesn't change his passing game)
There’s a lot of angst #onhere about the Steelers not landing a WR at the deadline, but not only does the lack of movement suggest the impending return of Roman Wilson and Michael Pittman Jr., it also signals faith in Germie Bernard’s continued development.
Entering last week, Bernard ranked 3rd in catches among rookie WRs (Tate and Concepcion) and 4th in yards (Tate, Concepcion, Boston). With a strong second half, he could be in contention for OROY.
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If you’re getting an error accessing the linked file, try this drive.google.com/file/d/1hLD…
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Half of men under 50 now have a sports-betting account. Nick Berardini charts the rise of a new gambling empire, and reports on what it cost the former N.B.A. player Jontay Porter. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
Kirk Cousins is just doing his thing for causal inference in football
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You'd think pro sports bettors would be really defensive about sports betting. Yet a lot of them, guys who understand the business as well as anyone -- James, @RufusPeabody, @haralabob, @spanky, the RAS guys, @adamlevitan, etc. -- are outspoken about the dangers at play.
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If Jeopardy legend and pro sports bettor @James_Holzhauer learned a lot from reading "EVERYBODY LOSES: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling" (link in bio), I have a good feeling you can, too.
Thank you, James, for reading it and letting me share your feedback.
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Insane story, incredible reporting by @NickBerardini
The N.B.A. player Jontay Porter got deep into FanDuel, and in debt to the wrong people. The only way out, it seemed, was to gamble on himself. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
I get why they're doing this, but I have conflicted thoughts... it feels like crossing the streams a bit between the EPA and WPA, where the former is ideally more detached from game-outcome context (this is why I didn't do it in nflscrapR RIP)
Speak now or forever hold your peace: we're implementing some significant changes to how @nflfastR computes EP / EPA. This will go live very soon. Feedback here:
github.com/nflverse/nflfastR…
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This is kinda sick ngl
Interesting: The #Jets have been using FB/TE Andrew Beck to kick off today, giving them an extra tackler on the field to help with their coverage issues this season.
The Jets gave up a kickoff return TD last week.
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Canes-Irish, the Holy War and more 👀
@ESPN_BillC breaks down his 14 favorite games on a monster slate ⤵️ spr.ly/6011BHN9Y3
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👀👀 @HudlIQ
Canes-Irish, the Holy War and more 👀
@ESPN_BillC breaks down his 14 favorite games on a monster slate ⤵️ spr.ly/6011BHN9Y3
Between this, @gameonpaper, and @nflsavantcom, it's pretty crazy how far accessibility to football analytics has progressed in just 10 years
