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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Ron Yurko retweeted
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
Ron Yurko retweeted
Happy Veterans Day to all who served! @TartanFB proudly honors your commitment, contribution, and sacrifices! #TartanProud
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#CODE | #BYB | #RDT
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…
Ron Yurko retweeted
If you’re getting an error accessing the linked file, try this drive.google.com/file/d/1hLD…
Ron Yurko retweeted
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/…
Ron Yurko retweeted
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.
Ron Yurko retweeted
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.
Ron Yurko retweeted
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/…
Ron Yurko retweeted
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.
Ron Yurko retweeted
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
Ron Yurko retweeted
Check out this new story! The NFL has given Carnegie Mellon University researchers access to official film and on-field data to develop new technologies that can enhance the way coaches, players and fans annotate, analyze and understand games.
cmu.edu/news/stories/archive…
Ron Yurko retweeted
CFB fans 🚨-- We have a new toy courtesy of @Ben_Tmeyer...do your best selection committee impression and generate your own rankings using buckets and blind resumes!
espnanalytics.com/cfb-blind-…
Ron Yurko retweeted
I found tracking data for over 600 games from last season behind the NBA app’s live court feature.
I am sharing a free archive of NBA player tracking data: player x/y, ball x/y/z, and raw feeds. The write-up shows how to use it in Python.
What are you gonna build?
Ron Yurko retweeted
BYU at #9 is a real head scratcher. Here's our best fit of the committee, at 65% "Most deserving" / 35% "Best". Not perfect, but very highly correlated with the committee. BYU is not close to the field. There are a bunch of teams jumbled together and the Cougars ain't one of them.
Ron Yurko retweeted
I love this tool from @bcmassey.
My take .... the 9-game SEC schedule has created the most intense philosophical clash between best & deseerving we've seen in the 12-team CFP era.
Could end up a fight over ...
3-L Alabama, LSU, Texas or Ole Miss vs
2-L UCLA, BYU or Wake Forest
