University of Florida Sports Analytics Lab
Gainesville, FL
Joined March 2025
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Excited to announce UFSAL’s partnership with @Athlyticz! Student analysts supporting 14 varsity programs will gain year-round technical training they can apply directly to real team projects. We are connecting learning with doing. Go Gators!
An article by our Director, @ScottNestler on what happens when measures / metrics / scores start impacting decisions.
Here’s a short article I recently wrote that pulls together key ideas from 3 books that have influenced my thinking on decision-making in sports. It might surprise you a bit. lnkd.in/p/gn74qp3b
The UF Sports Analytics Lab is supporting @GatorsVB from Gainesville. #SpikesUnderTheLights
Short article by our Director on how we form student analytic teams at Florida. It works!
Check out my latest article: Analytic Team Formation in the UF Sports Analytics Lab linkedin.com/pulse/analytic-… via @LinkedIn
While most UFSAL students are not in Gainesville for the summer, we are still busy in the Lab. Three full-time interns are busy helping me clean up technical debt, pushing forward team-facing projects, and doing independent research. More details soon! #DataDecisionsGators
Tristan Robbins, our first student analyst, has done some great work for the @GatorsMBK team. We are thrilled that he gets to spend the summer with the @cavs. (As long as he comes back in August for his senior year of college and works with us again!) #UFHHP #DataDecisionsGators
Today the UF Sports Analytics Lab turns 1 year old! We have come a long way in just 12 months, and we are currently working with 12 Gator sports teams. We are excited to see where the next year takes us!
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Check out this article, Inside the Numbers Game: Analytics and the Next Era of Basketball, by our director and some of our lab students.
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"Working on this paper significantly advanced my understanding of data analytics in the NBA.” - Will Robinson
We are hiring a Postdoctoral Associate for the UF Sports Analytics Lab. Come help guide motivated students doing analytic work for a dozen Gators athletics teams!
Please see the job description and requirements at the following link: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/j…
Students! Check out the career resources page on our website. It compiles the best job boards, career pages and resources for finding internships and full-time positions in sports analytics.
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UF Sports Analytics Lab retweeted
🇺🇸 🤝 We are pleased to announce that the @UF is joining forces with SkillCorner, leveraging our AI-powered tracking data to further enhance scouting, recruitment, and performance analysis for the Gators men’s basketball program.
As a program committed to innovation, Florida has integrated SkillCorner’s advanced analytics to evaluate performance and talent more effectively, while supporting the work of student and faculty analysts within the @UFSportsAnalytx.
This collaboration marks an important step in strengthening data-driven decision-making and gaining a competitive edge in the US collegiate landscape.
Some of our sports analytics students created the “Challenge Chart” for the men’s basketball coaching staff. Check out this video to see how it is used in real time situations in games.Our hardworking students and director are excited to see how this continues to benefit the team
Leave it to Todd Golden & Florida to draw up analytical strategy on challenges in year 1 of the new rule
As an analytical sicko, I absolutely love it😅
@GatorsMBK
UF Sports Analytics Lab retweeted
Leave it to Todd Golden & Florida to draw up analytical strategy on challenges in year 1 of the new rule
As an analytical sicko, I absolutely love it😅
@GatorsMBK
UF Sports Analytics Lab retweeted
Did you know that "Challenge Chart/Analytics" was developed by our UF Sports Analytics Lab 🏀!? Shout out to @ryanhammer09 for the love! @GatorsMBK @UF
Leave it to Todd Golden & Florida to draw up analytical strategy on challenges in year 1 of the new rule
As an analytical sicko, I absolutely love it😅
@GatorsMBK
Check out this article by two UF students, Warner Gephardt and Parker Whelan, as well as our lab director, @ScottNestler.
“My goal was to analyze the play through success rates and situational context to better inform the conversation,” Whelan said.
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Stat of the week!
Shedeur Sanders is the first Cleveland Browns QB since 1950 to throw for over 300 pass yds, have 3 or more pass TDs, and score a rush TD in the same game!
Stat of the week!
Matthew Stafford made history against the Carolina Panthers and now holds the NFL record with 28 consecutive TD passes without an interception, surpassing Tom Brady (27 TDs) for the longest streak in NFL history!
That's impressive, @StatsbyLopez! More than any year since 2020?
It will be interesting to see how things turn out. I'm pretty sure that some @UF students participated in this contest (and the other one too).
Impressive participation numbers -- Over 1000 teams and 20,000 submissions to the 2026 Big Data Bowl (analytics competition) #BigDataBowl
Submission scoring begins with tomorrow night's game
Stat of the Week!
Luka Doncic is the first NBA player in history to ever record over 400 PTS (414 PTS) and more than 100 AST (107 AST) in their first 12 games of a season.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s 2025 World Series run was historic. He led the Dodgers to the championship with three wins and a 1.02 ERA, becoming the first pitcher since Randy Johnson in 2001 to reach that mark.
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Nearly a quarter century earlier, Randy Johnson powered the Arizona Diamondbacks to their first title in franchise history. The Big Unit went 3-0 with a 1.04 ERA, famously returning on no rest to win Game 7 in relief.