Huge announcement--{baseballr} is now available on CRAN and is officially part of the @sportsdataverse! @SaiemGilani has done an incredible job updating much of the existing functions and adding a ton of new ones, mostly based around the MLB Stats API. More details to come...
Registration is open for the Wharton High School Data Science Competition! Teams will use simulated hockey data to rank players, predict outcomes & explore performance stats. Free to join + top teams recognized on the WSABI site.
📅 Deadline: Jan 28
🔗 https://t.co/nY00lBBTI7
Yoshinobu Yamamoto won Games 2, 6 and 7 of the World Series. He threw a complete game in Game 2, six innings and 96 pitches on Friday and came back Saturday to throw 2.2 scoreless innings on 34 pitches and induce the World Series-winning double play. A legendary performance.
That was completely predictable. You can’t push it and run Ohtani out there with the heart of the Jays’ lineup coming up. Especially after the way he was throwing.
It's ridiculous this was even necessary.
The Annals of Internal Medicine has rejected HHS Secretary RFK Jr's demand to retract the Danish vaccine study of 1.2 million children, finding 'no evidence of scientific misconduct.' (1/2)
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Powell says he is concerned about the impact of cuts at the statistical agencies. High-quality statistics are "a huge public good," he says. "I hate to see us cutting back on that... I would want to continue investing in that for the good of the general public."
Arkansas softball star Bri Ellis is the most feared hitter in college softball 😳
She hadn't seen a strike all day until the bases were loaded with the winning run on 3rd ... and she didn't miss it 😤
(📹: @ESPN)
Cherry Hill West senior Addison Petti is in the process of transitioning from being a three-sport star to a single sport athlete. https://t.co/Na04BDLX1j
Our Football Data & Analytics team is looking for a data scientist to come in and help us with optical tracking data, as well as the modeling of other projects in our larger analytics group.
Please DM if interested/qualified
"These have been the best few weeks of my life and I hope we have many, many more of them."
- incredible sound from Silas Lind, son of @MountHoops head coach, Donny 🥺