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Founder https://t.co/P5D1rDT9Mb, @huddlevisionai | NFL ‘24 #BigDataBowl runner-up | Engineering @GamblyAI
Miami, FL
Joined September 2020
A few months ago, Huddlevision partnered with @TrckFootball to build AI software that tracks HS players on the field and extracts player speeds, accel/decel, distance traveled, trajectories, and more. Here's a quick demo of what we've built so far!
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nflfastpy is a Python package I manage for loading play by play data in to your pandas code. The package is really simple, all it does is pull from @mrcaseb and @benbbaldwin nflfastR-data repo, but the images below exemplify why I took the time to create the package. Before/after
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Ok, we’ve decided - Huddlevision beta will be released in May. It will be a paid API which’ll give easy access to our models for analyzing game footage. No knowledge of AI or deep learning required to use :)
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@TheCoachEdwards Seems like the author thinks that coaching is about keeping your job as long as possible, not winning the game lol.
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I'm still building out the dataset for this and I need some help. Give me your most complex, hard-to-answer NFL stat questions you'd want to ask this chatbot and I'll add it to the training set (within reason). eg. What was Russell Wilson's completion percentage on passes of 5 or.
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Computer vision is so cool. Like how the hell am I now messing around with tracking data I got from a bunch of pixels on a screen
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Huddlechat is a natural language interface to NFL stats powered by AI. We are slowly rolling out the beta to users . Here's a thread showcasing what it can do so far for 10 offense player stats (I'll make another thread for defensive players) ⬇️.
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@theloaner11 @GuyDealership @charliebilello Lol sure. Problem is carvana has 0 potential operating leverage. Wall Street isn’t dumb and hence why the stock is down like 95% in a year.
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We’re planning on shipping a LLM app that’s connected to football databases to help writers, analysts, and stats nerds (it will be a pretty web app won’t look as scary as this). Ask any football question and you’ll get back stats, tables, charts with no code. There will of
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A quick demo of huddlechat, showcasing how it could be used for querying NFL stats and writing articles. Beta coming soon! (with ability to generate plots)
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Very excited to announce our first partner for @HuddlevisionAI. Lots of hard work leading up to this point and very excited to be working with the Tracking Football team on this!.
We are excited to announce that Huddlevision is partnering with @TrckFootball to develop computer vision technology to enhance their HS and NCAA football data offering! An official announcement will be held at the Recruiting and Personnel Synposium by the Tracking Football team.
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Another showcase of the field registration model. The model was trained to learn *where* on the field we are, given a video of a play. The field map overlay is just a nice visual . Very important task and turns out to be very difficult for an AI system to learn to do precisely
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Will be posting more details about this in the coming weeks, but:. Fantasy Data Pros is hosting a Best Ball Data Bowl with the help of @peteroverzet! Goal is to find the best insight from Underdog data for BBM4. Early registration is available here:
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Giveaway! - RT & like to enter for lifetime access to my Learn Python with Fantasy Football Course🐍🏈 16 modules and 16 hours of video teaching you the basics of Python all the way to building models for your draft. Available here:
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If you’re interested in working on huddlevision shoot me a DM! . Looking to hire a junior data scientist / intern in June. Position would be part-time, probably 10-20 hr commitment per week.
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Under the hood, the 3-point model fits a clustering algorithm called a Gaussian Mixture Model to each player's shot location data. It finds the optimal shape and # of clusters through cross-validation. Even if you're not a data scientist, it's still a pretty picture:
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A new Python tutorial has been posted to the FFDP blog! In this one, we show you how to use matplotlib to plot out @jamalagnew ‘s path on punt returns. Link to the post is in the next tweet below #NextGenStats 👇👇
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Asked my group chat to beta test huddlechat. Going well
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The Win at Sports Betting with Python series is up!. Learn how to use Python to analyze player props with the new free blog post below. ln this post, we use Python to analyze Jalen Hurts O/U 31.5 pass attempts (+100 on Draftkings).
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Decided to take a look underneath the hood of the Python three-point model:. These are 9 of the 100,000 simulations that were ran by the model for Jordan Poole vs. LAL tonight. Under 3.5 3PM is currently -140 on Draftkings. Model gives the under +EV and 15.5% edge👀
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@tejfbanalytics Not an expert on this, but I’m pretty sure - Packers are a corp, which is a separate legal entity from its owners so the entity itself puts up the escrow, whereas other teams are structured as partnerships. Source: I used to work for a firm that did the taxes for the Dolphins.
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Been working on the UI for huddlechat while we bring on beta testers. Before and after!
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🚨Happy to announce the winner / winning submission of the Best Ball Data Bowl:. Dan Falkenheim (@thefalkon)’s “Surveying the Avalanche: what happens to the draft board when there’s a run at a position?”. Once again, thank you to everyone who entered the competition, especially.
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Dan Snyder sells for $6B after purchasing the team in 1999 for $750M. That’s a 9.05% compounded annual growth rate while the S&P 500 returned around 7% during the same time frame. A thread on franchise valuations:.
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Here are the 5 finalists for the Best Ball Data Bowl. Very tough to pick 5 we wanted to invite for Pete’s show, lots of great submissions. Tried to get a mix here of best ball fundamentals focused entries and data science focused entries. Congrats to the finalists and thank you
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If you’re interested in working on huddlevision shoot me a DM! . Looking to hire a junior data scientist / intern in June. Position would be part-time, probably 10-20 hr commitment per week.
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first landing page for huddlevision, will drop the link later
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To kill time during the offseason, figured I'd put together an NBA model and do a betting challenge. I'll be setting aside $1,000 and attempt to get an ROI using just Python-driven analysis. First task was pulling lines for each book to find the best odds for each matchup
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Don't have GPU access so my computer might explode, but going to take a shot at extracting the first CSV of tracking data from huddlevision. Will post link later, person who correctly guesses the play will get lifetime access to huddlevision.
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What I envisioned for my life: me having a blast training AI models for football and playing the new NCAA in between. Reality: a million CUDA errors and yelling at my TV after throwing 5 picks against an FCS school on Heisman difficulty.
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Update on huddlevision (good news and bad):. Good news: we will be releasing an AI product soon and on schedule (it will be a good and affordable product, as exciting as stuff I've been posting here). Bad news: it will not be our computer vision software. For the time being, our.
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@WeHateRob It’s one part of a computer vision / AI system that extracts tracking data from game footage. This part maps a template of the NFL field onto a play image. It makes more sense with all the parts together, but this is just one piece I’ve been working on for a while.
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Here's another way to look at the clustering algorithm (GMM) that is core to the threes model:. GMM is great cause it gives us a generative model that describes the distribution of our data (This is important because we can use it to simulate shot locations around the court).
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Using @UnderdogFantasy data we started looking at how different stacking configs affected outcomes. We found that, in general, stacking did little to improve mean roster output or right-tail outcomes. If you drafted a top-5 QB by ADP, though, stacking improved your results.
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@wateriscoding Oh ya no worries dude this happens to me all the time. Just change to print(“loss = “, 1/loss). All good.
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Damian Lillard's legendary performance last night:. 13 three-pointers made, one shy of Klay Thompson's single-game record of 14 in 2018. Here's how the three-point model simulated last night's game:
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Btw if you want to learn more about this cool AI stuff I post, or are just interested in learning data science / how to code, I teach a course on applying Python to fantasy football over at Fantasy Data Pros. We just crossed 5000 course members this week since I started it in.
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Making lots of progress on huddlechat, if you would like to be a part of the beta, let me know through DMs!
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BYO game footage. You’ll be able to build your own projects by leveraging our fine tuned models - analyze routes run, formations, speed/acceleration/separation metrics, biometric stuff if you’re fancy. All the stuff you can do with tracking data basically, maybe a little more.
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Wisdom of the crowd does not actually mean the collective is smarter. It means that when you aggregate everyone's predictions together, *you cancel out everyone's specific biases and errors*, which leads to a more balanced prediction than any one individuals prediction.
1. ADP is literally a player's value. 2. Wisdom of the crowd >>>>>>> your own personal takes. 3. Google "Galton 1906 ox" to learn about how 800 people accurately predicted the weight of an ox at a state fair when you averaged their guesses together.
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For my followers who followed along with my computer vision posts earlier this year, follow @HuddlevisionAI . Big announcement coming next week!.
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First entry to the Best Ball Data Bowl has been submitted by @phtousi: . "Predicting Best Ball Playoff Teams with the Best Ball Value Curve and a Stacked XGBoost Model". Linked Philippe's work in replies. Haven't had time to review in full yet but seems like a strong submission!
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We are going to open the beta by this weekend. If you would like to participate, please lmk!.
A quick demo of huddlechat, showcasing how it could be used for querying NFL stats and writing articles. Beta coming soon! (with ability to generate plots)
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Doing image similarity to split images into train and test and this might be the first time I've felt like clustering isn't BS
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Amazon's field registration dataset for football is 835 images for train and test (largest on record I could find, although no open source datasets exist). We're at 147 images, on track for 1000 by end of week, 5000 by end of month
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The next course on Fantasy Data Pros will be on building a NFL betting model with Python. It will be in depth course on supervised machine learning, specifically classification.
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Super excited to be a part of Gambly and building the future of sports betting and AI w/ an amazing team (@WHester @BalesBets @CalSpears @BalesTJason @kevincassata_ @chan0_). Beta access coming soon!. (for those following my HuddleChat project, I recently sold it to Gambly to.
1/ I’m so excited to announce the company @CalSpears and I founded and have been working on over the past year: Gambly!. Gambly is a sports betting chatbot built to help you find bets as quickly as possible. We’re opening up a free private beta. Sign up:
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I feel like you can read through all of the Best Ball Data Bowl submissions and come out a reasonably sharp player in BBM. Personally learning a ton reading everyone's work. Very cool to see
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This may be a bit too ambitious, but we now have 6 separate blog series (just missing College Basketball now) for learning Python with Sports
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If you want to learn how to make beautiful data visualizations in @matplotlib, this repo is a gold mine!.
@samoalfred @matplotlib Yep, in the link provided you can find tutorials and code. Most of it is here:.
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Designing the front page of huddlechat rn. What do you think?. We have all the backend models built out and ready for the beta, just working on the user interface now
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From @loudogvideo 's Best Ball Data Bowl submission (learned Python with our course btw), playoff advance rate by # of WRs with the same bye week:. You can read Lou's full entry, "Do Bye Weeks Matter?" in the link below.
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@SinclairEuan @SinclairEuann For some reason he chose to follow me and I really thought for a moment he was actually you lol.
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We are going to be deploying huddlechat soon, slowly (over the next couple weeks) to people who have requested access. However, if you'd like to be a *paid* beta tester (short term position), let me know through DMs that you're interested and I'll send you a google form to fill.
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Official video announcement for our partnership with @TrckFootball 👀.
Official video announcement🏈🔥. Our team is excited to be working with @TrckFootball to build the next advancement in athletic scoring and recruitment!
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✅ Jordan Poole finishes 2/7. Happy with the results of the Python model for day 1. We missed Kyrie over 3.5 by a single 3PM, but other than that finished with decent accuracy on +EV bets. Only one day of data but a decent start so far.
Decided to take a look underneath the hood of the Python three-point model:. These are 9 of the 100,000 simulations that were ran by the model for Jordan Poole vs. LAL tonight. Under 3.5 3PM is currently -140 on Draftkings. Model gives the under +EV and 15.5% edge👀
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Lines started to show up yesterday for NBA player props (finally). Here's the initial predictions of the Python model for Thursday's games. Couple +EV bets that stand out including Jordan Poole under 3.5 3PM on Fanduel (-140)👀. Will be sharing this sheet w/ full list of props!
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This Best Ball Data Bowl submission (Surveying the Avalanche: What happens to the draft board when there's a run at the position?) by @thefalkon is very, very cool. Posted link to the entry below, definitely check it out:
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My poor old CPU has crashed 3 times
Don't have GPU access so my computer might explode, but going to take a shot at extracting the first CSV of tracking data from huddlevision. Will post link later, person who correctly guesses the play will get lifetime access to huddlevision.
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One of the coolest aspects of the Best Ball Data Bowl was seeing people with less followers but great ideas being given the floor to show off their analysis and methodology. Throughout the summer, we invited several people onto @peteroverzet show to discuss their submissions,.
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Would you use a product that allowed you to write and backtest sports betting algorithms/strategies (in Python and maybe R)?.
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Used the new 3-point model to simulate Jayson Tatum 3PM against every defense. Did 10,000 simulations per team. Tatum 3FGM on Thursday (vs. IND) will be one of the first props we take with this model. Waiting patiently for lines to open 😬 . Here are the results:
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🚨 A new tutorial is up on Fantasy Data Pros, a guest post from Josh Cordell @fantasycalc1 showing how to use their publicly available trade value API. Super cool and unique data to work with, def check out their site if you haven't already! . Post:.
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Enter your email and join the waitlist for huddlevision!.
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Updated Python model simulations results for Thursday's games. Added a column for EV. Highest quality plays I see:. Kyrie Irving over 3.5 (+140 on DK): 0.45 EV.Jordan Poole under 3.5 (-145 on DK): 0.26 EV. Will focus on these two props while I spend time debugging and tweaking!
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Working on a new post for the FFDP blog. Running back tiers for 2021 drafts using KMeans clustering. Data from standard scoring
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🚨 We have another submission to the Best Ball Data Bowl by @dsloan__! . Dylan looked at the significance of backup RBs in best ball by creating RB archetypes and looking at their draft positions in relation to overall, playoff and top 1% teams. Links below to the notebook:
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Preorder Python for Trading ($49). In this course, I teach you how to use Python's data science libraries with financial data to make some $$$$
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@EricHallman1 @theloaner11 @GuyDealership @charliebilello Idk maybe overlay a chart of the 10 year and you’ll find your answer? When interest rates go up, Wall Street demands companies show operating leverage. That is - free money party is over and companies need to show they can turn a profit. Carvana can’t and won’t - hence the.
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This is why we grind leetcode
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Working on a fork of @nfl_data_py that implements threading to pull play by play data. It looks like this approach is about 50% faster on average than requesting the data synchronously. Here, it reduced the time to pull PBP data from 1999 to 2022 from 71 seconds to 38 seconds
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Go visit and join the waitlist . We are up!.
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Putting this together for the new season - a Learn Excel with Fantasy Football course! Will be out August 1st. Meant for complete Excel beginners and will be structured very similar to my Python course
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